Magical Orbs

My son and I love to do crafts - the messier, the better.
Today we decided to make Magical Orbs.

We got the idea from a blog I bookmarked called How To DIY: Yarn Orbs

We gathered up our supplies
-Dollar Store Yarn
-End of the school year glue, which wouldn't likely see September
-balloons
-Cornstarch
-Water
-Small container
-Scissors
-well protected area (the messier the kid, the larger the area)

We mixed:
2 ounces of white glue
1/4 Cup of cornstarch
1/2 Cup of water

Blew up the balloons into the sizes we wanted. Then we let the FUN begin.
Dipped in our cut yarn into the milky substance and wrapped away.

Figuring out what to do with them while they dried proved to be a challenge.

So...
I found some old chopsticks and binder clips. I clipped the neck of the balloons onto the chopsticks and took them outside to hang off the side of our BBQ. Hey, it worked. The sun and breeze dried them out.

After supper, we were ready to slowly deflate the balloons. <- This I HIGHLY recommend you do outside. As the balloons shrunk, flakes of dried glue went everywhere and my son exclaimed it looked like a snowstorm (not in June, kid! At least, not this year!) Almost more mess than the creating of orbs.

When all was blown away, he gasped in surprise. He loved them - and wants to make more.






Time to run to the Dollar Store!

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