Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, baby shower, graduation, retirement, or engagement, balloons are the perfect addition to your party.
For ages, they have helped families and friends celebrate big moments in life. They’re a fun and inexpensive way to enhance any celebration.
The only problem is taking them to a specialty store to fill them with helium. Filling them with helium shouldn’t have to slow you down or put a damper on the party.
Here are a few ideas to keep your party going without needing helium!
9 Decoration Ideas for Balloons Without Helium
1. Make a Backdrop
A huge hit at parties for every occasion is a backdrop where guests can take photos. These are easy to make, and it’s the perfect way to incorporate your favorite party decoration without helium.
All you’ll need is a backdrop, tape (or a hot glue gun), and balloons. Set the backdrop up with a neutral color sheet.
You can choose a color that best represents your event, like a gold sheet for a graduation, a pink sheet for a girl’s baby shower, or a green sheet for a St. Patrick’s Day party.
Tape or hot glue the balloons all over the sheet, filling them to various sizes to keep the texture and dimensions interesting.
You can even use a textured backdrop like grass or wood and border the backdrop to create an elegant and classy design. It creates a beautiful setting that your guests will love taking pictures in front of!
2. Incorporate Specific Numbers
Using specific numbers is great for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, or retirements. The best part about using numbers is that it will help you remember the milestone you were celebrating when you look back on your pictures!
You can incorporate numbers in a few different ways. You can buy balloons that are shaped as specific numbers and blow them up yourself. They’re easy to use and quick to set up.
These will look great hanging on the wall or from the ceiling if you’re celebrating inside. If you’re celebrating outside, you can make the specific number with a sturdy material like cardboard or wire and cover it with balloons.
However you choose to create the numbers, you’ll be glad you have memories to reflect on one day.
3. Hang Them Upside Down
A fun spin on not having helium is hanging the balloons upside down from the ceiling.
Attach the string as you normally would, and then tape the string to the ceiling so that they are hanging upside down!
The kids will love that they are closer to the actual balloons, and it creates a fun twist to the party.
It’s easy to set up and clean up once the party is over, and you won’t have to worry about making the extra trip to have them filled up.
4. Make an Arch
Whether you’re celebrating a baby shower or a 50th wedding anniversary, adding an arch is a beautiful addition to your event.
This is surprisingly easy to make and can be accomplished with the help of a few friends or the kiddos.
If you don’t have a plastic or wire arch already, you can make your own using wire and bending it into the arch shape that you want.
Then you’ll attach various sizes and color balloons using tape or hot glue if the wire is big enough. It creates a great decoration for your space, and it’s budget-friendly, which you’ll love!
5. Cover the Floor
If you’re having a party for a graduation or a child’s birthday, you can save time on other decorations and cover the floor!
It’s a very simple and cost-efficient way to celebrate and use specific colors that you want for your party.
Without helium, the balloons will stay on the floor and move around as people are walking around and breezing by them.
Kids will absolutely love chasing after them, and it creates a fun and exciting atmosphere for an inside or outside party.
You can use this at any celebration, and the more you have, the more fun it will be for your guests as they walk around throughout the party!
6. Attach Them to Streamers
A common addition to birthday parties, graduations, and baby showers are streamers. If you combine these streamers with the balloons, you have a brand new way to decorate.
Hang the streamers as you normally would on the ceiling, on the wall, or both. Then, you can just tape the balloons to the streamers to create a new effect.
You won’t need any helium. It keeps them off the floor and gives the allusion that they’re floating.
It’s a great way to combine materials you’ll already have handy and fill your party with fun and excitement.
7. Wrap Columns
If you have wooden columns inside or outside (in your party space), wrap them with balloons!
It creates an elegant and interesting decoration that’s already natural to your home or party venue.
If you don’t already have columns at the party venue or at your home, you can use large sections of styrofoam and cover them.
It’s a sturdy material that will hold any shape you cut it into, and you can easily use tape or hot glue to attach the decorations to it and make it as full or colorful as you want!
8. Create a Special Effect
You can use different shapes and sizes of balloons to create pictures or special effects at your party! A great example of this is celebrating an engagement party, an anniversary, or college graduation.
Find a champagne or wine bottle balloon, and then using smaller ones, create the image that it’s bubbling over or pouring out.
It’s a fun way to celebrate and have an image or picture come to life. You’ll feel the excitement as soon as you see the decoration and the texture bring the special effects to life!
9. Use Letters or Words
In recent years, there’s been an increase in using actual letters or words to help celebrate at parties.
These are great because it allows you to move away from paper banners or to have to handwrite signs such as “Happy Birthday” on sheets of paper.
Using balloon words is easy, as they often come in a pack with the phrase. You can use a string or streamer to attach each letter and string it on a wall or from the ceiling.
Your guests will love taking pictures in front of phrases, and it’s an easy and cost-efficient way to celebrate your loved ones.
