Our pile of tissue paper glued in 3’s ready to be cut using our template.

Laying out our template to make the first side to our balloon. Apparently we failed to make the opening big enough and it did not fly very well.

1 Finished side to the balloon.

Cutting out additional paper to make the balloon.

Mitchell with our glue, and we will be using A LOT of it

What a finished side looks like. Using plain-old Elmer's glue to combine 2 sides of cut-out tissue paper.

Getting ready to glue another 2 pieces onto the other 2 pieces already in place.

Comparing some of the combined sides to make sure they are symmetrical.

All of the sides successfully glued together and ready for test flight!

We did not make a big enough opening at the bottom and was probably the reason it did not fly so great. On the other hand it did however travel OFF the ground, and we’re glad it did that at least.

This project was a very hands-on activity, and i am grateful we deserved to do this balloon project.