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Balloons and playdough are the perfect gift for a creative preschooler. We have a friend who loves ladybugs, after seeing this post by Sew Can Do where Cheryl made Easter Eggs with Playdough, we decided to do something similar. Only instead of filling our balloons with playdough, we filled them with goop. I prefer goop over playdough as it leaves no messy residue to wipe up. And instead of making eggs, we made ladybugs.
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Directions:Mix up the goop.
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Fill the balloons with goop. (We double ballooned them for durability). Tie them off.
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Decorate with spots and pipe-cleaner antenna.
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Fill a bag with your bugs and… Viola! You have the perfect gift for a preschooler. They get to play with bugs, then “burst” them to have more goop playing fun! I love goop. There is no residue to clean up after – so much better than playdough! We made our DIY gift bag following directions from Maggy of RedTedArt. She made some out of old comics, we used pages of a book that had fallen apart. Thanks Maggy for the “final touch”!
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Do you have a DIY gift that was a hit with your preschoolers? I’d love to hear about it!
Looking for more balloon activities? Check out Jaime from Hands On: We Grow!
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How do you fill the ladybugs with goop?
Just stretch the mouth of the balloon open and stuff it in there
It was a learning process the first few tries.
Oh what a perfect gift for preschoolers! Love it! Esp in this day and age where there is “pressure” to make bigger and better party bags.. this is perfect. Thanks for sharing it and thank you for making our party bags
Maggy x
This would be such a hit at playgroup!
Love this – definitely going to try this w/my girls. So fun!
(And thank you for linking up
Maggy x
I simply LOOOVED the lady bug balloon ! Once, I made a gift box using some woven clothes (using scrapbooking techniques) to make it similar to a lady bug and the final result was perfect. I love decoration and your idea is perfect, I’m definitely using it in one of my parties =D
Love love love this! Thank You!
Very unique. It looks like a real bug. Nice idea,i love it
Awesome! I really like the idea in making this one. At first i thought it was a real bug but it’s not. I agree with you chloe it really looks like a real bug.Good work.
That stuff looks like a real bug! Nice work
I love it. You have a very nice idea,i agree with them it really looks like a real bug.
How do you make the goop? Did I miss the directions somewhere?