How to Easily Create a Circus Balloon Mouse

Children will love it when your create a circus balloon mouse for them. They will enjoy drawing a happy face on their new circus balloon mouse. Make lots of these balloon mice for birthday parties and school parties.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Long circus balloons
• Black permanent marker

1. 
   Stretch circus balloons

   Stretch the balloon several times to make it easier to inflate as you blow it up.

2. 
   Inflate circus balloon

   Inflate the balloon up to about 2/3 of the way of the length of the balloon.

3. 
   Form head

   Take a small portion of the inflated end of the balloon and twist to create the head. The end of the balloon where you tied the knot becomes the nose on the circus balloon mouse.

4. 
   Form ears

   Holding the head of the balloon mouse in one hand, take a little more of the inflated end of the balloon and twist two times to create the two ears for the circus balloon mouse.

5. 
   Twist ears

   Twist these two ears a couple of times so that they will stay in place.

6. 
   Set ears on top of head

   Twist well to complete the circus balloon mouse. the long un-inflated portion of the circus balloon becomes the tail of the circus balloon mouse.

7. 
   Balloon mouse

   This is how your circus balloon mouse should look so far.

8. 
   Draw on face

   Take the permanent marker to draw the face and whiskers. Children will love drawing the different faces on the circus balloon mice.

9. 
   Finished circus balloon mouse

   Now you have a cute little circus balloon mouse.

Tips & Warnings

• Make lots of different colors for your children
• Be sure to stretch the balloon so that it is easier to inflate

[Rachellewms]

on 12/25/2008 How Cute! I will try this for my grandson. I hope I don't mess it up somehow. Thanks for sharing :)

[showpup]

on 12/21/2008 This will be a great project for us to do for the little kids coming for our Christmas get together. Thanks for sharing it; and especially for the great photos you always put the time into sharing. 5 stars

[dasbootjoe]

on 12/8/2008 Wow great job with the pictures! This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing!*****

[anglalyn]

on 12/4/2008 This is great. I always wanted to know how to make balloon figures... I wanna see more :) 5**

[TeacherKelly]

on 12/3/2008 Cute. Nice step by step pictures.