{"id":2216,"date":"2018-05-21T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/pop-out-stress-ball\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:15:33","slug":"pop-out-stress-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/kids\/pop-out-stress-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Out Stress Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">This entertaining anti-stress ball <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/party-supplies\/party-decorations\/balloons\">balloon<\/a> is great for sensory play. Its pop out feature through the netting when squeezed means it&#8217;s lots of fun to play with. Quick and easy to make, you could create lots in a range of bright colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">This entertaining anti-stress ball <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/party-supplies\/party-decorations\/balloons\">balloon<\/a> is great for sensory play. Its pop out feature through the netting when squeezed means it&#8217;s lots of fun to play with. Quick and easy to make, you could create lots in a range of bright colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,233,49,440,328,286,229],"tags":[711],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-activity","category-teachers","category-mindfulness","category-sensory","category-subjects","category-themes","tag-sensory"],"acf":{"age":["3-5","6-9","10+","Adult"],"skill-level":["Beginner"],"time-to-make":["15 mins"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects","Art Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K253","time":"15 minutes","skill_level":"Beginner.  Adult supervision needed","how_to_make":"<ol>\r\n \t<li>Blow up a balloon, then deflate it, to stretch it out.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Pull the neck of the balloon over a tap and slowly fill it with water. Then tie the neck in a tight knot.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Cut out a piece of netting big enough to fit around the whole of the balloon. Then cut a small length of red wool.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Wrap the netting around the balloon, gather the ends together and tightly tie the wool around it to hold it in place.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Carefully squeeze the balloon to make it pop through the gaps in the netting.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","shopping_list":"<ul>\r\n<li>Balloons<\/li>\r\n<li>Water<\/li>\r\n<li>Netting (from a pack of oranges)<\/li>\r\n<li>Scissors<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"Remember not squeeze it too hard otherwise the netting may break.","image_01":69055,"step_instruction_01":"","image_02":69056,"step_instruction_02":"","image_03":69057,"step_instruction_03":"","image_04":"","step_instruction_04":"","image_05":"","step_instruction_05":"","image_06":"","step_instruction_06":"","template":"","related_projects":"2211,2221,2226,2231,46480","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6RkYGOHTOvI","products":"AG238","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":5900,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91594,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/91594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}