BALLOON BATS FOR HALLOWEEN

  
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Mr. Bat E. Bat And Family Take Flight For Halloween.

 

There are many frightful creatures that spirit through the night to accompany the Trick-Or-Treaters in their costumes; angelic and demonic, paultry and precious, romantic and regal, paper mache' and silk, goulish and glorious. Costumes and imaginations run as wild as the stories that will be told. They are stories designed to trick and to treat those who dare to engage fully in the spirit of the night. It is a spirit filled with ghosts and goblins and BATS.
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Chief among the bats is the family of Mr. Bat E. Bat. He is the living leader of an ancient family of Balloon Bats. It is said that Great Gradbatter Balloon Bat had the power to inflate himself to such a gigantic size that he could block out all the light from even the brightest full moon. His appearance in the Halloween sky guaranteed a scary night.

Rouse Matrix Expand-And-Load balloon bat
made by Treva Hart
of Event Decorating by Leilani in Oklahoma

But, Beast Lee Balloon Bat was the really dangerous one. He had so much strength in his helium filled wings that he could lift costumed children up above the moonlit clouds. One slip and it could have been the end for his passengers. I am told, however, that he always returned his frightened humans safely to the ground.  
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Today, it is difficult to find living members of the Bat E. Bat balloon family. They seldom fly the night sky of humans, even on Halloween. But, there are many balloon toy replicas. And, many of these you can make for yourself. They are great for decorations, for costumes and for play on Halloween and all year round.

I have included some instructions and links to materials and other resources below.  Use them and make your own Balloon Bats For Halloween.  Enjoy the fright and the flight . . .

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MAKE YOUR OWN BAT
(Download free instructions to make 6' or 12' RMS Bats.)

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Make Your Own 6' Bat

with one package of two Rouse Matrix Expand-And-Load Banner panels.

• Connect the two panels along the narrow edges as suggested in Fig. 1.
• Expand the connected panels to the open sizes of about 6' x 3' as shown in Fig. 2.
• Load black balloons inflated to 4" in diameter in the pattern shown.
• Trim around the balloons with scissors.
• Add a couple of smaller red balloons for eyes and you will have an awesome RMS Balloon Bat.
• There are more details in the RMS Banner pkg.
• Buy your RMS Banner panels online.

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Make Your Own 12' Bat

with 2 packages of two each Rouse Matrix Expand-And-Load Builder panels.

• Connect the 4 panels along the narrow edges as suggested in Fig. 3.
• Expand the connected panels to the open sizes of about 12' x 6' as shown in Fig. 4.
• Load black balloons inflated to 8" in diameter in the pattern shown.
• Trim around the balloons with scissors.
• Add a couple of smaller red balloons for eyes and you will have a huge RMS Balloon Bat.
• There are more details in the RMS Builder pkg.
• Buy your RMS Builder panels online.

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Make Your Bat 20 Times As Strong

with just double the material.  you can double the volume andincrease the strength of your bat by 20 times by using the Rouse patented Double Layer technique illustrated below.
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RMS Double Layer Technique:

1. Tie pairs of balloons closely together.
2. Stand the pair vertically with one balloon in the first Matrix as shown in Fig. 1.
3. Add more pairs of balloons as illustrated in Fig. 2 with the strap around the widest part of the balloons.
4. Lay the second Matrix on top of the balloons and insert the top balloons into the matching openings as in Fig. 3.

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Make Your Bat Even Easier
wth the new Rouse Matrix 6' Bat shape and 12' Bat shape. Just expand and load with balloons. These two RMS Frameworks are already cut into bat shape. We would love to have your comments below and see pictures of your projects. 
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Graham Rouse



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Balloon Month & The Balloon Arts Movement

  
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September has been declared as "International Balloon Month" by the International Balloon Association (IBA).  "Balloons Around The World" promotion is coming up October 5, 2011 this year.  These are outward manifestations of what I perceive as a more
Universal Balloon Arts Movement that is greatly enhanced by, but does not depend upon, such organizations and promotions.

Balloon Arts such as balloon decorations, balloon sculpture, balloon graphics and balloon entertainment are media that have touched and influenced the lives of millions of people in a positive way. Many of you are among those of us who lend our hands, give our breaths and share our imaginations through balloons. We touch, enrich and influence individual lives, economic activities and cultural attitudes in the world around us.

• We use translucent film made with sap drained from trees or made with oil drained from the earth.
• We sculpt envelopes for air.
• We transform them with hands, with machines and with imagination.

In the process:

• We inflate more than balloons.
  
  • We inflate our own sense of self worth as WE are filled and transformed by rewards of, smiles, praise and money.
• We stretch more than latex.
  
  • We stretch the imaginations of those around us with the possibility that they too might become creators and not just creatures.
• We color more than the light seen through our balloons.
  
  • We color the emotions and attitudes of those persons whom we engage with our displays.

We exercise our balloon arts with balloon decorations, balloon sculplture, balloon graphics, balloon entertainment and more. We have daily opportunities to expand business, stretch imaginations, and color attitudes in positive ways. When we do these things, the momentum of our individual influence combines with others in a worldwide Balloon Arts Movement that can significantly alter and improve the world around us.

International Balloon Month helps to focus attention on balloon arts and that is very good.  The Balloon Arts Movement, however, does not depend upon any individual, organization or special promotion.

The Balloon Arts Movement infects the attitudes of people with a rainbow of positive feelings. It then grows with the stretch of each balloon. It expands with each breath. It spreads with each smile. It is, in fact, already on its way to becoming a viral pandemic of delights; visual, tactile, emotional and economic.

The Balloon Arts Movement promises to each person who participates that they will experience life as a creator. It does not matter whether they focus on balloon decorations, balloon sculpture, balloon graphics, balloon entertainment or other balloon art. They will have opportunities to see their creations add life to the living of others. They will, thereby, sample one flavor of life eternal. They will experience again and again that creation stimulates life, life begets creation, creation stimulates life and the process goes on and on. It is a process worthy of life eternal. It is a process that enables life everlasting.

It is, however, a process that is not peculiar to balloons nor to balloon art. Yet, balloon arts can put that experience within the reach of nearly everyone. And, nearly everyone needs to experience life as a creator in order to strengthen their faith and to improve their skills at making life worth, lasting forever.

You can be among those who participate in this movement. You may already be among those who participate in this movement. Maybe you make balloon decorations, balloon sculpture, balloon graphics, balloon entertainment or other. As you participate, you experience, for yourself, life as a creator. You add life to the living of others and share with them the taste of that eternal flavor. It is a flavor they also may savor each time they add their breath to a balloon and share it with someone else.

So, go out now and encourage these others by your example, to participate in the Balloon Arts Movement and, in turn, to act as a positive influence on others around them during International Balloon Month and throughout the year…. … .

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