3 Round balloons - Just standard party balloons, bigger ones are better if you can find them. Your juggling balls will be stronger if you use 4 or 5 balloons on each one.
1 Freezer bag - Any small light plastic bag will work.
1/2 Cup of uncooked rice - You can substitute anything that is around the same size/weight. Jugglers often choose millet (bird seed) as a fill material or you could use those old lentils at the back of the cupboard. If you don't have anything else then use some sand, a bit less though because its heavier than rice.
A pair of scissors.
Step 1. Kids, get a grown-up to help with this bit. Carefully cut the neck from each balloon.
Step 2. Put ½ a cup of uncooked rice into a freezer bag. Squeeze out any air from the bag & give it a good twist so that the rice stays inside. Squish the rice bag into a rough ball shape.
Step 3. Stretch a balloon all the way around the ‘rice ball’. Use lots of fingers. Grown-ups, get a kid to help with this bit.
Step 4. Stretch the other balloons on one at a time. Put them on at different angles so that the openings don’t match up. All done, have fun!
