East Experiment - Balloon Trick

I'm gonna poke this skewer all the way through this balloon. What happens usually when you poke a balloon with a skewer? AH, IT POPS. You need to find the magic spots in the balloon. So, take a look through the balloon at a light. You can see through the sides, but you can't see through the bottom part near the tie or the top part. That's because these parts are thicker. So, I go through the bottom. Well, we're definitely through cuz I heard a little air leaking out. And oh no. Try this again. Uh-oh. And that's how you skewer a balloon. You know, I've seen people do this before, but something that I've never seen anyone try before is to stick the skewer through the sides of a balloon and try to blow it up. It very quickly pops. But if you stick the skewer through the top, it works. That's because it's easier to tear or rip or break the thinner parts of the balloon, just like it's easier to tear one page of a book rather than the entire book. We actually tried blowing up the balloons as far as we could earlier. We only got them to about 2 feet.