How To Make A Traditional Sized Balloon Race Prop

The Balloon Race is a pony club game in which riders ride up alongside six balloons, pop one, and ride back to their group so that the next rider can pop the next. Actual explanation of the game can be found here.

Anyways, the first part to the prop is the balloons. I bought them on Amazon since my local stores didn’t seem to sell them. Now, if you have a local store that sells balloon cake toppers, lucky you! You really just want small ones.

So after trying to encourage Bullet the bunny that the outdoors is good for him (if human he would be a person who’d hiss at sunlight), I started on the how-to.

First you need to measure your wood. It should be only slightly wider than your balloons.

Next I cut the wood,

and cut a thinner piece of wood to go under the wood. It should be only a little bit wider than the width of the wood.

Then I painted it,

and glued the pieces together.

I used gel super glue, but wood glue should work too.

I began gluing the balloons but I wanted to have a popped one(you don’t have to have a popped one)

I make a popped one, cut into it, making it almost sliver like.

Then using my heat gun, I shaped it to look ‘popped’.

Glued the last one on.

Done!

Buck's Customization

Friday marked my last full week of high school, ever. So before beginning a paper about A Tale Of Two Cities, I cut off Buck’s ears.

Then I drilled a hole for horns.

Added wire using super glue and baking soda.

Covered it in apoxie. Then I did some face resculpting. Added an ear and sculpted another.

Then I added a tuff of fur at the top of his head.

Yay! My roping steer is pretty much done!

Wowzers, There's More Cows!

For about a year my cow herd was made up of a single cow. She has been a versatile cow, and has been stuck everywhere from costume classes to livestock classes. But in the past month, my herd is now four.

 These two are my newest additions. The cows were sculpted by Cassie Thomas of Clover Leaf Props, and were part of my first saddle trade. They are the Buck resin and play nice with my other cows. I can’t wait to paint them, and one will be getting horns and new ears to start life as a ropin’ cow.