How To Make A Stress Ball - A No Mess Simple Method For Making Stress Balls

Stress balls can be a really useful tool in reducing your stress levels. In addition, they can assist with improving your coordination, help to prevent conditions such as arthritis and rheumatism, stimulate blood flow and help with relaxation techniques such as meditation.

If you've ever tried to find help on how to make a stress ball, you may have found many web sites where they advise on a technique of partly blowing up a balloon and then using a funnel to add a flour or cornstarch filling to make the stress ball.

I've used this technique and felt that it really didn't work too well. What often happen is that as you are opening the balloon to fill it with corn starch or flour, the air in the baloon comes out. The result can be clouds of flour dust everywhere and not much in the balloon - something that won't really help your stress levels!

I've worked out a very easy way of making homemade stress balls that completely prevents this situation from happening and makes the whole process much simpler, less messy and much less stressful!.

Just follow the instructions below and you will be able to make a nice homemade stress ball without the mess.

You Will Need to Have:

1. A small size, thick round balloon.

2. An empty 2 litre plastic drinks bottle.

3. Corn starch or flour for the balloon filling.

Method:

1. Put your corn starch or flour, into the empty 2 litre plastic bottle.

3. Stand the bottle upright and put the balloon over the bottle rim without inflating it.

4. Squeeze the bottle to partly inflate the balloon with air.

5. While still squeezing the bottle, turn it upside down and shake the corn starch or flour down into the balloon.

6. Release your grip on the bottle, and work the excess starch out of the balloon, along with any excess air. This allows the starch settle and allows any excess filling to go back into the bottle.

7. Nip the end of the balloon at the bottle rim and turn the bottle back right way up, carefully take off the balloon and tie it off as near to the filling as possible.

After you have finished making your stress ball, you may want to brighten it up with stickers, or paint a face on it. It's best to make sure your decorations will not cause any irritation to your skin or come off on your hands when you squeeze it.

And that's all there is to it. You have now learned how to make a stress ball very inexpensively, compared to store bought stress balls. You should be aware that your home made stress balls probably won't last half as long as commercially made ones, but as they are very simple and quick to make, you can simply make new ones any time you need to.

By: Tom Canavan

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