Birthday Party Balloons: Gas-filled Bags of Fun by Raymond Plona
Birthday parties are celebrated in all cultures, all nations and all creeds with a fervour that can give any festival an easy run for their money. The world loves this way to celebrate turning an year older!
The history of birthday party celebrations is age old. Soon as the human race began to be able to read the cycle of the moon and calculate when a full year had passed, they began to hobnob with the idea of anniversaries. Believe it or not, the first birthdays were celebrated as a means to ward off evil spirits by conglomerating all one’s kith and kin in one place.
Traditions most popularly encountered at a birthday party are:
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Birthday Cake – Cakes used to be round previously; today they come in many shapes
Birthday candles – number of candles is traditionally equal to the person’s age; some people take one candle more than the age and leave it aflame for good luck
Blowing out of candles/Birthday wish – if all the candles are blown out in one attempt, the person asks for a wish secretly and gets it!
Birthday song – ‘Happy Birthday to you’ is most popular
Birthday gifts and cards
Birthday decorations -balloons, crepe streamers, confetti, whistles and cheerfully coloured long pointed paper hats
Not throwing a birthday party to celebrate a birth anniversary is a taboo! Especially since organizing birthday parties just got so easy.
birthday party supplies were never so freely available. Cakes, candles, balloons, crepe streamers, return gifts – you name it and you have it – in packets neatly arranged according to popular party themes.
Birthday party supplies are themed, too -
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Age theme – birthday party supplies are available keeping in mind the ages of the birthday people. Be it the very first birth anniversary or the eightieth one, you are sure to find matching supplies. Candles, cakes and balloons come either in the shape of the age number or bear that number on them.
Colour theme – any colour can be chosen and the supplies ordered in accordance. Either solid colours or prints and stripes may be utilized.
Culture theme – select your theme of choice – will it be Oriental, Egyptian or Island?
Apparel – an apparel party is especially popular among children. Select a theme like fairy tale, say, cartoon or international statesmen and ask the attendees to dress accordingly – also get birthday party supplies to suit the theme.
All birthday parties are incomplete without birthday party balloons.
Winnie the Pooh opined, ‘Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon,’ and expressed in words what every young heart felt.
Balloons do have a history. The first rubber balloon was made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 in the Royal Institution in London for his experiments. Hydrogen gas was used as a filler.
The first toy balloons were made in 1825, just a year after their use in experimentation. Thomas Hancock, who was a rubber manufacturer, was the maker. However, the closest ancestors of today’s balloons did not come before 1847.
The earliest models of today’s balloons were made by J.G. Ingram who used vulcanized rubber.
Latex is used most frequently today for making birthday party balloons. Latex is biodegradable while the other material, plastic, is not.
The toy balloons are available as many variants.
* Colours – solid colours, prints, polka dots, stripes
* Themes – balloons carry messages like ‘Happy 70th birthday to you’
* Shapes – animal shapes, heart shape
* Filling gas – helium or hydrogen filled balloons stick to the ceiling owing to the lightness of the gases and give a different type of celebration effect – they may be utilized as a piñata modification!
* Walking balloons – these are the latest modification of all. Favourite characters are fashioned out of foil or latex into life-like figures and inflated with air. Thick paper pads are provided at the base of the figure to allow it to ‘walk’
* Foil cut outs – these are life size cut outs that float. They are filled with enough air to make them stay afloat for about a week
Colours – solid colours, prints, polka dots, stripes
Themes – balloons and other décor items carry messages like ‘Happy 14th birthday to you’
Shapes – animal shapes, heart shape
Filling gas – when helium or hydrogen is used as filler in the balloon, the balloon sticks up to the ceiling as these are light gases – this gives an innovative décor and such balloons may even be used in place of piñatas.
Walking balloons – these are the most modern changes in the balloon usage. Figures of popularity are cut out of latex or foil in large sizes and filled with air. Thick pads are provided in the base of the figure to weigh it down and help it walk.
Foil cut outs – life sized cut outs of favourite characters that have been designed to float. They are filled with air and volume of air helps it stay afloat for about a week
Birthday parties will be made greater fun with the used of newer birthday party balloons. Are they not fun?
About the Author
As the owner of a birthday party candles store, Raymond Plona has vast experience in planning and executing a successful party using various items such as personalized theme party banners, party costumes, baby shower party favors and so on. Visit his site for more information.
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