Subject: RE: Gone Fishing
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:07:10 +0200
From: Jan Lissens <jan.lissens@atek.be>

Here is an alternative routine i use:

Make the rod and put a little bit of air into a 6" heart. It will appear
more or less round. This is the floater. Let the kid try to catch
something.Then, as you say 'you've got something', grab hold of the
'floater', and squeez all the air toward the knot end of the heart. It will
take a fish-shape. Remove your hand, and the floater has magically turned
into a fish. Sometimes, instead of saying it is a floater, I tell them it's
bate.

My entire fishing rod-routine takes up about 5 minutes, but it goes over
really well, and the 'magical' effect of the floater or bait turning into
the fish at the end gets me ooh's and aah's every single time.

I try to avoid making more than one fishing rod in a row, because doing the
routine adds to the balloon in a major way. It becomes more than 'just a
balloon'.

-----Original Message-----
From: magic george [mailto:majikgeorge@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: zondag 16 september 2001 1:25
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
Subject: Gone Fishing


Hi all,
Here's a very silly little bit of business I started
doing, today. It's not much, but it entertained the
youngsters.
Make a fishing rod without the fish. Give it to a
child , turn your back to them and have them fish over
your shoulder. Then make your fish while enquiring at
regular intervals (looking back over your shoulder)
wether they have caught anything yet. (a surly shake
of the head was found to be the standard response)
.When fish is finished attach it to the line then give
it a tug.
"look's like you've got a bite, reel her in!"
 
I got a real look of delight from the nippers when
they'd discovered they had 'caught' something.

thats all
Magic George


P.S. If anyone who asked me for the puppet
instructions hasn't received my e-mail, I posted my
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