1st Birthday Party Balloons

First Birthday Foil and Latex Balloons

Balloons are a great addition to any birthday party! We carry a great selection of both foil and latex balloons specially designed to match our wonderful birthday party themes and decorations. Mix and match them together with solid colored latex balloons for a great balloon bouquet, which will enhance your decorations. Our fun Monkey Birthday Party theme looks great with solid latex balloons!Add Black, Blue and Silver balloons to our Rockin Little Rebel birthday party supplies for a "pop" of color. You can send them home with your party guests once the festivities wrap up, children love them, and they make inexpensive favors. Tie them outside to your mailbox to indicate where the party is, or place them next to the front door. Use them in games like “Pop the Balloon” where children race across the room and try to be the first to pop a balloon on a chair. Everyone loves balloons!

Balloons in one form or another have been around for centuries. But the modern latex balloon, the kind you can blow up yourself, was invented in New England during the Great Depression. A chemical engineer, frustrated in his attempts to make inner tubes from this new product — liquid latex — scrawled a cat’s head on a piece of cardboard and dipped it in the latex. When it dried, Neil Tillotson had a “cat balloon”, complete with ears. He made about 2,000 balloons and sold them on the street during Boston’s annual Patriot Day parade. In the late 1970s, silver metalized balloons were developed for the New York City Ballet. These balloons are commonly called Mylar, but they are actually made from a metalized nylon and are more expensive than latex balloons due to their durability, and ability to hold helium much, much longer.