Balloon Flower
Hobbyists of balloon modeling often turn the funny shapes they create by twisting and transforming the balloons into real artistic forms. Making a more or less complex balloon flower is for many a good modeling exercise and part of the repertoire if you need to use the trick for all sorts of occasions. The balloon flower is easy to make and it only requires some long thin balloons of different colors that will be knotted and twisted so as to create the leaves and the petals. Children will always love a balloon flower and will often try to make one themselves.
You could use balloon flower design as a good home activity for your kids when they want to learn something new. In case you don't have the skill for it, make a simple search on Google and you'll come across plenty of instructions. The most explicit are quality YouTube videos but you may have to look through several before catching the trick. If you are using such a video, you can prepare all the materials necessary and try to make the balloon flower together with the instructor. Even if you don't get the best of results from the first trial, you'll learn it eventually.
There are all sorts of complex balloon flower models that involve making more twists in the loops and creating equal parts that will represent the petals. It is the color alternation that often makes the biggest challenge, and many hobbyists come to improvise and develop their own personal ways of creating these balloons. Kids birthday parties are a lot more fun if you can organize some special moment around balloon flower making. Such items make great toys, as they are inexpensive and great fun to play with, not to mention the possibility to twist them even further making hats, bracelets or even animals.
If you intend to make balloon flower toys at your kid's birthday party, you have to be prepared with several sets of colorful balloons and lots of patience as the little ones will swarm around you to learn the trick or be the first to get such a toy. Keep in mind that a balloon flower will not raise the interest of a teenager like it stimulates the imagination of a child, and therefore, such decorations do not always work for all kind of parties. However, balloons could represent the unconventional flower substitutes if you want to add a tinge of humor to a party. Have fun!