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Having a Christmas ball!

Megaballs make folks smile--they are so awesomely big and bouncy.  But people also sometimes wonder, "what exactly do you do with them?" 

The possibilities might surprise.  We've heard of megaballs being used for everything from horse training to science projects to advertising shoots.  They've been dropped, floated, bounced, rolled, painted with logos, even plastered over with paper mache.  Here, in keeping with the season, is one special account of megaball magic, courtesy of a resourceful customer, April Padilla.  May it spark your own imaginings!

In an email to B Independent (quoted with permission), April writes:

It's been awhile, but you had mentioned for me to send pictures of what we ended up doing with the balls we ordered. Well, we painted a snowman on the largest, a Christmas tree on the second largest, and candy canes on the blue one. We left the smaller red ones alone because they were red and somewhat Christmas looking. The kids had an absolute blast on them. We also rented a jumper (moonwalk) and between the two things they were busy well into the night. 

The paint did not crack or peel off either. We used Kilz primer (oil based) and used regular water based paint on top of the primer. We did not let the air out after we painted (one weekend ahead of time). I had to give your web site out to at least three people, who were so amazed at how much the kids were playing with them. I just kept hearing "Where did you get those?"

The truth is I saw it on a Halloween episode on HGTV, where the guy had bought these huge balls and painted them like eyeballs for his Halloween party. That's what we'll do with them next year. That requires the whole ball to be primed, so we thought we would do the Christmas party first, and just paint over the decoration for Halloween. We don't expect the paint to last but long enough for the party; we knew that going into it.

Anyway, thank you and I hope you enjoy the pictures.        

April

 

 

 

 

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