Beach Ball Hot Air Balloon

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• Step 1

  Watch my online tutorial.

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  Step 2

  Inflate a medium size beach ball.

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  Step 3

  Use painter's tape and divide up 12 stripes on the beach ball.

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  Step 4

  Paint alternating red and cream stripes to create a new pattern.

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  Step 5

  Take a bed riser or flower pot and wrap rope all around the outside while hot gluing rope as you go to the side.

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  Step 6

  Measure out 2 rope lengths that proportionally wrap around the ball and top of basket.

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  Step 7

  Tie a rope around the circumference of ball and then tie where the two long ropes around ball intersect on the rope around circumference. Space out evenly into quarters so that 4 rope lengths hang loose.

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  Step 8

  If you are using a bed riser, screw in 4 screws on the top of each corner of bed riser leaving enough room to tie rope around screw.

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  Step 9

  Tie the four loose rope lengths around screw tightly to each corner screws.

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  Step 10

  Tighten screws after tying each knot.

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  Step 11

  Tie a another rope to top rope intersection and hang balloon from a ceiling hook. Then take extra rope and scallop evenly around the circumference rope.

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  Step 12

  Make cute little sand bags by taking white cloth, gather up pieces to look like a bag and tie them up with string. Lastly, hot glue little bags to the side of basket.

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Joybells · Norfolk, Virginia, US · 23 projects 23rd May 2015

I love hot air balloons. This is so whimiscal! Love, love, love it! Thanks for sharing.

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Joybells · Norfolk, Virginia, US · 23 projects 23rd May 2015

I love hot air balloons. This is so whimiscal! Love, love, love it! Thanks for sharing.

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KMOM14 · Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · 378 projects 23rd May 2015

Cute!

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Anael MarsW · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canarias, ES · 34 projects 11th May 2015

Lovely!

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