• Free shipping from 69 € within Germany
  • Secure order
  • Easy return shipment
  • Service-Hotline 04231 - 66811
     Mo.-Fr. 9 - 17 h
VBS Basteln und Hobby

Miniature hot air balloons

Instructions No. 2714

Instructions No. 2714

Difficulty: Beginner

Working time: 5 Hours

Share article:
Print instructions View material list
Material list

From simple light bulbs, terracotta pots and little craft materials can be made fantastically beautiful hot air balloons. The light and airy decoration idea is also perfect as the basis for a decoratively crafted monetary gift.

The light bulbs are designed with the decopatch technique. To do this, tear the folded sheets into small pieces and apply them to the light bulbs with napkin varnish and a brush. After gluing, paint over everything with another layer of napkin varnish. This not only acts as a glue but also gives the homemade balloon an even silky matte look.

Paint the circuit boards and terra cotta pots gold, twist a hanging loop into each circuit board.

You will need 2 strands of cotton cord per bulb. Cut them long enough and glue them as a cross on the bulb, fix a gold painted sinker over it. Draw a bead on each strand, attach each at the same height with a knot at the bottom and glue it to the bulb.

Fill the clay pots with plug foam, arrange some baby's breath and moss on them, fix them with some hot glue. Wrap each clay pot rim (as seen in the decoration example) with the decorative ribbon with linen edge. While doing this, pull the cotton cords through the tape and place a bead on each as a finishing touch. Knot the ends of the cords. Important: adjust the clay pots so that they hang straight. Finally, you can cut off the ends of the cotton cords that are too long.

Must Have

VBS Light bulbs, 6 pieces
12,99 €
Quantity:

Material list

Leaflets "Jungle"
7,89 €
(1 m2 = 5,84 €)
Quantity:
VBS Light bulbs, 6 pieces
12,99 €
Quantity:
Wooden platine, curved, Ø 30 mm, 10 pieces
2,59 €
Quantity:
Terracotta pots, Inside-Ø 3 cm, 10 pcs.
3,09 €
Quantity:
VBS Cotton cord, 100 m, Brown/White
5,99 €
(1 m = 0,06 €)
Quantity:
VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Gold
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
Quantity:
VBS Wax beads, Ø 6 mm, 60 pcs., Gold
1,15 €
Quantity:
VBS Napkin varnish "Matt", 100 ml
3,59 €
(1 l = 35,90 €)
Quantity:
Screw eyelet
2,59 €
Quantity:
Dry-Flower arrangement foam Cylinder
3,29 €
Quantity:
Hot glue gun, 15-80 Watt
15,29 €
Quantity:
Allow cookies and other technologies?

We process your user data by means of 16 cookies and other analysis and tracking technologies ("cookies") to optimise the website, create user profiles and display interest-based advertising. We also access or retrieve information on your end devices. We also pass on some of the data collected in this way to our partners, who may be based outside the European Union, for example in the USA (see „Data protection declaration“). It cannot be ruled out that your data will be linked to other data already stored about you. By clicking on the "Accept" button, you agree to the use of your data. You can refuse the use of your data by clicking on "Refuse". To revoke your consent for the future at any time, to change your settings or for further information, click "Privacy settings" in the footer of each page or manage them right here.

Further options
Settings
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by your web browser to store certain information.
always active
Essential functionalities
Data collected through these services is required to provide basic shopping functions and to ensure the technical performance of the website. To this end, information is exchanged with reliable analysis partners.
Analysis cookies for a better service offering
We collect and store data that is used to analyse user behaviour and evaluate it in order to improve our services. This enables us, for example, to improve the user-friendliness of your customer account. To this end, information is exchanged with reliable analysis partners. This includes the following 1 Cookies and third-party providers:
- Google Analytics of Google Google Ireland Limited
- Mouseflow, ein Webanalyse-Tool der Mouseflow ApS
Marketing cookies
We collect and store data for advertising purposes, which allows us to display ads that are relevant to you on partner sites, in apps & emails. For this purpose, information is shared with trusted advertising partners. These include the following 15 cookies and third parties:
- Google Customer Reviews by Google LLC
- Custom Audiences remarketing feature of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited.
- Google Conversion Tracking by Google Ireland Limited
- Remarketing or "Similar Audiences" function of Google Ireland Limited
- Microsoft Advertising of Microsoft Corporation
- Affiliate programme "Awin" of AWIN AG
- Facebook of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited
- Instagram of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited
- Pinterest of Pinterest Inc.
- Embedding of YouTube videos by Google Ireland Limited
- Live chat system of MessageBird B.V. (and this partner then Sentry of Sentry and Polyfill.io of The Financial Times Limited)
- Personalised recommendations from Optimizely Inc.
- Trustbadge of the Trusted Shops AG
- Google Tag Manager from Google Ireland Limited
- A/B testing and web personalisation from Kameleoon