DIY Stress Balls

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Issue: Stress

Beneficiary: The Family Partnership - children, youth and adults

Purpose: The Family Partnership provides counseling services for people struggling with a wide range of challenges: abuse, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief/loss and life transitions. Stress balls help our clients focus.

Directions: See below

Quantity: We ask volunteers to make a minimum of 10 stress balls.

Step 1: Gather materials

• party balloons
• flour
• funnel
• scissors

Step 2: Stretch the balloon

1. Using your mouth or a pump blow air into the balloon so that it inflates and stretches.
2. Let the air out of the balloon.

Step 3: Fill the balloon with flour

1. Using your funnel fill the balloon with flour.
2. Make sure to be holding the end of the balloon tightly to avoid a mess.
3. Stop putting flour in the balloon when it reaches the neck.
4. Don't fill the neck.
5. Tie the top into a knot to stop the flour from getting out of the balloon.

Step 4: Avoid a disaster

1. Take another balloon (it may be of a different color, the final result will not be affected) and cut most of the neck of using scissors.
2. Stretch the second balloon over the first one as a second layer.
3. The second layer will help prevent the dispersion of flour all over the place in the event a hole would appear.

Step 5: You’re finished!

• All that’s left to do now is drop them off.

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