How to Make a Balloon Appear Unpoppable

Are you tired of watching your balloons pop? Here's how to make them pop resistant! Perfect for impressing people at parties and crowds too!

1. Inflate the balloon until it's almost full. Tie it off as you would normally.
   
   
2. Coat a wooden skewer with cooking oil on both sides.
   
   
3. Hold the skewer with one hand and the balloon in the other. Make sure that the knot of the balloon in on the balloon's "equator" rather than on the "poles".
   
   
4. Slowly pierce the balloon with the skewer , twisting and taking care to enter at the knot and exit exactly opposite (where there should be a small amount of slack).
   
   
5. Equally carefully, remove the skewer and hold the balloon by pinching the far hole. The balloon will not burst but will begin to slowly lose air.
   
   

• If you're doing this as a trick, in places where you would hold the balloon, make sure your assistant holds the balloon instead.

• Don't let your audience see you pour the oil on the balloon.

• Balloon (any size)
• 12 inch cooking skewer
• Cooking Oil