Arts and Crafts

By: Greetje

Helllloooooooo lovely

readers, welcome back to cooking with Greetje, with your host, me, Greetje have returned after being gone for a very long time, but now I am back to teach you many tips and tricks you can do with your children. This time I will teach you how to make balloons in a pinch!!!!!

Imagine, your third kiddo turns three finally, and you are having a birthday party but OH NO! - you forget to buy the ballooooonnns. And now your kid is crying and is very sad, so I thought to myself, Greetje, why not make balloons myself? So I went to our bedroom to get some condoms that my husband keeps buying but those are full of chemicals so I don’t want to use them. So, that third kiddo I was talking about is the middle kiddo I tell you hahaha. So I, I mean you take the condom and stretch them out so it is flexible. Clear? Super, now onto the second part!!!!

Now we will paint the condom heppy peppy colors because we only have the white ones, and that is boring for a kids’ birthday party. So search your kiddos’ stuff, and there is probably some fingerpaint that you have bought, since your kid is three and all. Now, your kind can help with the next step. Have them blow up the ‘balloon’ and have another paint it with their little fingers - oh, so cute - and in the end you will find a happy pattern. Last but not least, let the paint dry. Each kiddo can hold two balloons at once and - if you want - you also have them hold another one in their mouth: hahahah. Then they cannot talk and you can have some rest and maybe make the cake already haha.

Okayyy, now these are all pretty good (hurray), but they are missing that special - excuse my French - I-don’tknow-what. Yes, you should have them fly in the air; that will make everything better! Then again, you did not have balloons so why would you have helium gas? Now helium, or He as the smart people write it, is not the only light gass. If you remove the ‘e’ from two He’s you will get H2 gas, and that we can make with only household items. So, first prepare some alkaline drain cleaner in water, and a lot of aluminum foil. Now, you should start to see bubbles so you know it is good and then you start removing de ‘O’ from water. Where is the

O in water you ask??? Uhm… it is in H2O which is what smart people call water, so there you remove it from and you will get H2!

So one time I did this trick and then my neighbor lady was like: “No don’t, that is dangerous!!”, but she did not know that it is just water without de O hahahah. I told her that and then she was like “yes that is what makes it dangereux” and she started droning on about things like health and safety and occupational hazards and like h-numbers and p-numbers. But I don’t care about numbers except the number of her husband’s private nummer because I would like to have a talk with him about her behavior. Anyways, she kept going on and on about how she knows what she is talking about and stuff like that and that she works with the stuff on a daily basis but I am like “but I also work with this every time there is a birthday”. So yeah, these annoying neighbors I have... but I sure showed her hahahah.

Anyway, when your little experiment is making nice bubbles, you can put the stuff in your balloons. You do this by first sucking the H2 air into your lungs and then blowing it into the balloons and it will be super nice!! This is also a task your kids can help with easily! So now you have these balloons and luckily this means that it is possible to have a party (hurray again). Now just make sure to invite only fun people; not like the neighbor lady hahahah. Also when making photos of the party make sure to get a shot of the balloons with the cake and the candles close together. It will look very good!!!

This is how I transformed the boring condom into a fun balloon: look, first you give it a smiling face because I want my kids to smile a lot at their birthday party. But then I accidentally swiped over it and the paint got sad! I don’t want that - sad is bad - but it rhymes so it is true. So I put more paint on it

I hope your party will be an explosive success, ‘cause mine for sure was hahahah! I should invite the neighbor lady next time, then she will also know what fun is for once. Well, that was it voor todayyyy! I wish you lots of success with all your parties, and me and my two kids wave you goodbye; until next time!

Goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!