Yarn Balloon Eggs

Grade Level: 3rd Grade


Project Description: By creating yarn balloon eggs, students will learn about the circumference.

Steps:

• We started this lesson off, by reading Sir  Cumference. 
• Once completing the book, we blew up the balloon that we were given at the beginning of the class.
• Our teachers gave us a glue/water mixture. It was roughly 40% glue 60% water.   
• We dipped the yarn (we picked it up as we walked in) into the mixture. We drug the string through our thumb and pointer finger to get the excess mixture off. 
• With the damp yard, we wrapped it around the balloon. We made sure that the two ends were connecting.
• We continued this procedure until we felt that are balloon had enough yarn to hold its form when the project was complete. It took about 12 pieces of yarn.
• Once the yarn had dried, the teachers popped the balloon and removed it.

 I found it difficult to get the correct moisture on the yarn. I always seemed to get the yarn too wet thus making it not stick to the balloon.  

Extension Activity: Depending on where I was teaching and the students I had, this would be a fun activity to do for Easter. Once the balloon was removed, we could fill it with candy. To add on to the lesson about circumference, before dipping the yarn into the mixture, you could measure the circumference around the balloon in different directions. I would have the students wrap the yarn around and then measure the length of the yarn with a ruler. The students would record their results.