Season 2, Chapter 5 – Ralph Dewey – Passing a Message with Balloons

Ralph Dewey is the Balloon Historian. His book documents balloon history from 1945 till 1975. He is the veteran of veterans. During his years he saw everything and today we salute Ralph Dewey for all of those years of entertaining with balloons. In this chapter you will learn:

• What is Balloon Gospel and how you can teach kids with the aid of balloons
• Multiple ideas about Balloon Skit
• How to create an atmosphere on your act with music
• The importance of backup and lighting…
• Weird example of a chalk talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HKPjRUVQ0
• What was twisting all about in the forties, fifties and sixties and how did they call balloon twisting back then
• The coins in the balloon trick – you MUST try this!

Two links of more stuff by Ralph (including a balloon elephant)

The Hex Nut: You can learn more about Ralph Dewey here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Dewey About the book: https:/www.deweyballoons.com/ About the (now no longer active) Ralph Dewey award: https:/www.deweyballoons.com/Award.htm Two links of more stuff by Ralph (including a balloon elephant)

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