You’ll know a balloon is filled with helium if it floats. Helium is lighter than air, so it naturally rises. If a balloon stays down near the ground, it doesn’t have helium in it.
If the balloon is inflated but not knotted, you don’t need to poke a hole in it. You can simply suck the air directly from the opening.
It helps to exhale fully before inhaling so that you can get as much helium into your lungs at once as possible. Helium doesn’t have an odor, taste, or smell, so you really won’t be able to tell that you’re breathing in an element different from oxygen until you try to speak.
What you say is totally up to you! Have fun and come up with unique phrases or just repeat your name over and over again to hear how you sound.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ” “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” “Betty bought a bit of butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter. ” “Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran. ”
See how far into a song you can get before the helium wears off. You could even make this into a challenge with your friends!
Try coordinating with your friends to make a video of you all talking or singing at the same time right after having sucked helium.
Have someone else drive the car; otherwise, you might be too distracted by driving, sucking helium, and talking to be a safe driver.
