DIY Balloon Flowers

We held Chloë’s 6th Birthday Party this past weekend, so last week’s agenda consisted of a lot of planning and decorating.

Chloë wanted to have a “Monster High – 13 Wishes” party.  
Which – for how much I hear about Monster High – I thought there would be an abundance of decorations to choose from.

Not so much.

I was able to purchase napkins and a table cloth and the rest I had to come up with on my own.

That’s okay –  it gives me something to blog about.

First up – Balloon Flowers.

I needed balloon flowers in the traditional Monster High colours of black white and pink.

 

  

Now,I trial-and-errored a couple of versions of these balloon flowers;

The larger balloon flowers in the back (the pink and the black) are “Three-lung-fulls”.

This just means I used three full lung-fulls of air to determine a petal size – so that all the petals would be the same.

The centre flowers were 1-lung-full.

The front balloon flowers are “Two-lung-fulls” for the petal size and about a half a lung-full for the centres.

I liked the big ones, but they were a bit harder to get to stay flat.

In fact, I ended up using glue dots to try to get the petals to stay in line.

I hung a few balloon flowers in my foyer:

And mission: Decoration was off!

This one’s for your Pinterest board:  (I like when it’s all in one pin)

• Monster High skull centrepieces
• Monster High juice box stickers
• Monster High goodie bag stickers

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