TEDCO Tedcotoys Kids Activity 50-Foot Solar Balloon for 14 years

Ok, seriously, this thing is fun! All the kids around us were just in awe. But, ANY wind and it will blow away or get damaged on sticks, trees, anything at all. Ours has a couple of holes in it but it still fills up. I'm going to try and patch it with some tape. My 12 yo son loves to fill it up (which is quick, like 30 seconds) and run around with it. You will not regret this toy! Get outside and have fun.

I bought and have used these as part of a science camp that I teach for elementary students. They are a lot of fun, but you do have to be very careful.Caution: They are essentially like a big, ultra-thin trash bag. They work best on clear days in the early morning (so I've heard), However, I've used them in the morning and afternoon, low humidity, high, etc. When you tie your string to the end you're holding, be careful not to tear the bag when you are opening it back up to pack up. I always caution them NOT TO TOUCH THE BAG AFTER INFLATED. It is easy to puncture, especially when inflated. Even touching it may leave a finger imprint. My kids like to roll/ run underneath it as it sometimes floats up and down, but with that, their foot can easily tear it if it strikes it. Make sure you are in a large field as if it comes down on anything, it could tear.The ones this year flew up so high that it cleared some 50ft trees in the field we were in, flew over the parking lot, over the college buildings and actually into the adjacent forest. Crazy crazy. It was a blast for the kids though.Cool lesson for teachers to talk about solar energy as the bag heads up quickly and you can feel the heat within the bag when it's still open.

We bought this and didn’t use it for a while. 13 year old decided to bring it to the beach. It was amazingly fun! Hard to control, a little wild, but seriously , it’s so large people walked from way down the beach to see what the amazing “floating sausage was.” It is thin, as people note. But it landed in the ocean multiple times and scraped across the shells and was just fine. We also did it with some wind blowing which is not recommended but added to the fun.

We loved this balloon. It is a bit fragile, but we had no problems getting it full of air and it wasn’t very windy. You really need a sunny day for it to work. We did it on a cloudy day and it would fly really high then float back down when the clouds came by. We did get a small hole on the end but tied it off, no problem. I had purchased two in case the first one tore but we didn’t need it.

I used this as a 4th grade experiment and it worked great. It went highest when the sun was out and the wind would die down.

This thing was like a very weak trash bag. Before we could even get it opened all the way, it ripped. I would not recommend this.

We finally got the solar balloon to fly some, but never for very long. We hope to try it again.

So easy to use! Great teaching tool for kids! Reusable