It’s a Ballzoon! Lighter than a ball, so much better than a balloon.

J loves balloons, aside from the cake, it’s his favourite thing about birthday parties – if we come away without a balloon it’s a bad sign. There are a few obvious flaws with balloons though – they deflate, pop, blow away and are very difficult to predict and indeed catch when you are 4 and have pretty poor coordination!

Ballzoons are fantastic though, a balloon inside a material skin. The skin makes it more ball like – you can throw it, bounce and catch it. It’s heavy enough that you can play with it outside yet light enough that we have used it inside throughout the wet Easter holidays.

Ballzoons come in 2 sizes: a 23cm one (in 4 designs) that inflates to 800% of it’s original size and the 46cm Mega Zoon that inflates to a mahoosive (J’s words) 2500%. They inflate really easily and the included balloon clips are a really great idea and save you having to try and tie a knot in the end whilst also making each balloon reusable. I was particularly dreading blowing up the bigger size but then realised it comes with a mouth pump that has a non return valve in it – I’ll definitely be keeping that for birthday parties!

It does say that you can part fill your ballzoon with water but I must confess I haven’t been brave enough to try that out as yet – maybe if we get a Summer we will! Ballzoons have been a big hit here in the holidays and helped get J a bit more active, his catching has definitely improved as a result too.

Ballzoons from John Adams are available in toy shops for around £7.99 and £14.99. You can also buy packs of replacement balloons too. I was sent one of each size Ballzoon for the purpose of this review. My review is honest and in my own words.