How To Make a DIY Squishy/Stress Ball 💜

Oh how cool :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: I love :heart: I will buy nano tape and test it out Ty for doing this :smiling_face:

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If you add one extra step it’ll last longer and not be sticky on the outside for sensory sticky avoidance people, to do that I recommend adding a balloon over it and tying the knot, you still get all the squishy feel (and the bits of glitter and such if you pick a thin color ballon to let it show through) and none of the sticky, plus it extends the life of it and reduces mess risk if/when the tape breaks. Just to be clear I’m adding this recommendation as a sticky avoidant autistic

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Is it possible that you tag me anyway when you do stuff like this? I like it so much :heart:

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How do you get the balloon over it though? Even before filling it looks fairly large…

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Wow that’s cool you definitely need to keep doing this!!

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YES THAT IS TRUE sadly…

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Ummmm idk, I just always did that and it works, I guess you just have to slide it form your tap and pinch down as it comes off

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Cool!! If I had nano tape, I would totally do this!!

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Similar to the way you fill balloons with air, helium, or water, you stretch it, you could also if your worried it’ll get stuck due to the stick use the outside of the sticky ball as a lint roller before adding it to the ballon

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But those things are not larger than the balloon opening, you barely need to stretch to fit it over a tap, and not at all to blow them up with air/helium. Trying to stick a larger solid object inside would require a lot of stretching…

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I’ve done similar large stretches with balloons no problem as a kid but if your that worried about it fitting a nitrile/rubber/la text glove would also work

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Ooh a glove could be a fun shape squishy! lol

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You could also start the process and wait to add the water until after you get the nano tape through the narrow part of the balloon then add the liquid and close as a second option

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