Balloon Art: Make Wacky Doodles

15 mins • Ages 12+ • Play together or solo

Become a balloon art legend

With five categories and a wide variety of prompts per each, Balloon Art will have you doodling weird things to your heart’s content.

Draw requests without lifting your utensil from the paper or exceeding the bounds of the balloon. Pick wild flairs to challenge yourself even more, such as drawing with your eyes closed or with your off hand.

A sample of balloon art: Animals

During a game of Balloon Art, you’ll take requests (rolling a D6 twice then choosing a prompt), choose a flair, then select a balloon to draw in. Smaller balloons are worth more points, but will prove more difficult to draw in. Once you’ve filled all of the balloons, count your score to see how you rank in the history books. Are you a balloon art legend or do you fall into obscurity?

Many ways to play

Draw things solo or with friends. With friends, there are multiple ways to play:

  • Pass and play: Draw a request, then pass the paper to the next player. See how you all do as a team. 
  • Draw together: Everyone takes one request and draws it at the same time, in the same balloon, with every player having their own printed copy of the game to draw on. Wait for everyone to finish before moving on.
  • Open drawing: Everyone plays their own game at their pace, but in the same space so you can show each other your creations as you like.

Download, print, repeat

This is a print and play game. You’ll receive access to a PDF for download, allowing you to print as many copies of Balloon Art as you want.

Available on itch.io

Balloon Art is $3.00 for five categories of doodling mayhem.


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