🎄 The Ultimate Balloon Gift Guide for Christmas & Beyond

Unique Balloon Gifts & Christmas Decorations to Make Every Celebration Magical

Balloons aren’t just for parties — they’re heartfelt gifts, luxury decorations, and show-stopping centrepieces that bring joy to every occasion. Whether you’re celebrating a milestone, surprising a loved one, or adding festive flair to your home this Christmas, the right balloon design can make the moment unforgettable.

Here’s your go-to guide for the most popular and most-loved balloon gifts we create for our customers.

1. Stuffed Balloons (Yes… Gifts Inside Balloons!)

One of our most jaw-dropping gift options!If it fits through the neck of the balloon, we can put it inside. Popular items include:

🎀 Wine bottles

🐻 Teddy bears

💷 Money

👶 Baby clothes

🍬 Sweets

📚 Soft-cover books

Stuffed balloons are beautifully decorated and personalised, making them a memorable and playful way to present a gift.

Prices start at just £14.99

2. Hat Box Balloon Designs

A gorgeous, luxury gifting option.We match the hat box to your balloon design, allowing you to:

• Hide a surprise gift beneath a helium balloon

• Display a gift elegantly beneath the balloon

• Pair balloons with flower arrangements

• Fully personalise both balloon and box

  
  

These are incredibly popular for birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s Day and Christmas morning surprises.

3. Bubble Balloons

These Instagram-famous balloons create instant magic. Crystal clear and long-lasting, bubbles can be filled with:

• Mini balloons

• Confetti

• Foliage

• Metallic flakes

  
  

Add a touch of luxury with an LED light strand.

Personalised messages can be added too, making them ideal for milestone birthdays, engagements, weddings and festive gifting.

4. The Forever Rose

A stunning, lasting keepsake. Inside a perfectly clear balloon sits a single, elegant silk rose in your chosen colour.

Wrapped in LED lights and displayed in a matching hat box, this is truly a gift that lasts forever — lights can be replaced and the balloon remains intact indefinitely.

Perfect for:

❤️ Anniversaries

❤️ Romantic gifting

❤️ Christmas proposals

❤️ Special keepsakes

5. Orbz Balloons

These elegant spherical balloons always get a wow. With their perfectly round shape and huge lift capacity, Orbz look luxurious and modern.

They can be wrapped with LED lights and paired with a decorative cluster base to hide the battery pack.

Perfect as:

✨ A statement gift

✨ A restaurant table centrepiece

✨ A modern Christmas decoration

Did we mention, we tablescape too!

Endless Inspiration Awaits

These are just a handful of our bestselling balloon gifts — but the possibilities are truly limitless. If you can imagine it, we can create it.

💡 Visit our gallery for more ideas💬

Or message us to start designing your perfect gift

Let’s make your Christmas magical, meaningful and beautifully decorated. 🎄✨

Remember we also create a HUGE range of seasonal decorations!

24 Elf Mischief Ideas (and What You Need!) to Get Busy Mums & Dads Through December

The elves are back — and if you're anything like most parents, December becomes a whirlwind of school plays, Christmas prep, and trying desperately to remember to move that elf before bed! So to take the pressure off, we’ve rounded up 24 easy, hilarious, and fun Elf ideas, complete with the items you’ll need for each.

Whether you're a “set it up in 30 seconds” parent or a lover of full-blown elf theatre, there’s something here for every household.

But first, children may start questioning the elf's handwriting, so to address this, we use a letter pegboard for all our elf messages. It includes a wide variety of emojis and multiples of each letter. These pegboards are affordable, and you can get yours here:

Grey Square Felt Letter Board 10x10 Inch with 350 White Plastic Letters - Easel, Drawstring Bag and Oak Peg Boards for Home Decoration : Amazon.co.uk: Stationery & Office Supplies

1. Elf Arrival in a Tangle of Christmas Lights

What you need: A string of fairy lights

A super simple arrival idea! Wrap your elf in sparkling lights with a note:

✨ “Your house needs to be more Christmassy! 24 sleeps!”

2. Cheeky Cheerios

What you need: Cheerios, tape

Stick a Cheerio on your elf’s bum and spell out “BUM HOLES” with cereal.

Guaranteed giggles!

3. Elf on the Slopes

What you need: Cotton wool balls or sheets, candy canes (for a sledge), or tin foil

Create a snowy scene on stairs, banisters, or any surface.

4. Minty Oreos

What you need: Oreos, mint toothpaste

Your cheeky elf is swapping the filling for toothpaste. Classic elf chaos.

5. “I’M AN ELF… GET ME OUT OF HERE!”

What you need: Tape, plate/board, sprinkles, jelly snakes, anything gross

Tape your elf to a board surrounded by creepy crawlies and treats.

6. Crisp Making

What you need: Potatoes, pen, slicer, crisps

Draw faces on potatoes, slice one, and lay out “fresh crisps” on the other side.

7. North Pole Museum of POO

What you need: Cupcake cases, sweets, labels

Create piles of “poo” using different sweets: reindeer, elf, penguin, unicorn, yeti, Santa, nutcracker — anything goes!

(Grab sweets from Scrumptious on Sunninghill High Street!)

8. Elves Eating Domino’s

What you need: Domino pieces

Lay them out like a pizza for a funny “treat night.”

9. Chillin’ with Egg Sheeran

What you need: Egg, orange wool or pen, printed album covers & guitar

Create a tiny Ed Sheeran-inspired egg star and chill him in the fridge.

10. Baker Elf – Rainbow Cake

What you need:

• 3 eggs

• Butter, caster sugar, self-raising flour (equal weight to eggs)

• Food colouring

• Sprinkles

  
  

Set up ingredients with a note explaining how to make Elf Rainbow Cake.

11. Nerf Fight

What you need: Nerf guns, bullets, toys/teddies

Set up a full toy battle scene!

12. Elf Joke of the Day

What you need: A plate, a cracked egg & a note

Draw a face on your egg & tell this classic:

🤣 “What happens when you tell an egg a joke? It cracks up!”

13. Elves Feed the Pets

What you need: Pet food, toy vehicles, scoops

Let the elves “help” by feeding the pets… messily.

14. Elf Makes Breakfast

What you need: Clingfilm, cereal, spoon

Cover the toilet bowl with clingfilm, add cereal, and leave a note:

🥣 “I made breakfast in a BIG bowl!”

15. Snow Art

What you need: Artificial snow cans

Have the elf spray a little festive art on windows or mirrors (easy to clean!).

16. Be Good Reminder

What you need: A lump of coal

Leave a note:💔 “It upsets me when you’re not good…”

17. Moana (or Any) Party Scene

What you need: Toys, themed items

Set up a mini movie scene with a quote from the film.

18. Phases of the Moon

What you need: Printed moon chart

Cut out the full moon and place it around your elf’s bum.

Silly and adorable!

19. Elf Choir

What you need: Empty cans, googly eyes, straws/sticks

Create singing cans and position your elf as the conductor.

🎶 “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Daddy Smells!”

20. Smartie Pants

What you need: Pants, Smarties

Scatter Smarties over pants and leave a note:

🩲 “Good morning, Smartie Pants!”

21. Elf Makes a Mess

What you need: Cooked spaghetti, sweets, syrup, sprinkles

A messy sensory explosion in the kitchen.

22. Crime Scene Elf

What you need: Flour, googly eyes

Spread flour, leave an elf-shaped silhouette, add eyes and a note.

23. Elf vs Hoover

What you need: Hoover, slime ingredients

Elf gets “stuck” mid-clean whilst preparing slime for the kids.

24. Scavenger Hunt

What you need: Printed rhyming clues, hiding spots, giant chocolate coin

Finish the season with a magical treasure hunt.

(We’re releasing a free PDF for email subscribers on Tuesday 16th December!)

Happy Elfing

A Family Affair for Valentine's Day

When we say we’re truly family-run and operated, we mean it—every bit of it! This Valentine’s Day was no exception as we roped in our beautiful little helpers, Delilah and Ella, for a special photoshoot to showcase just how adorable our new Valentine’s Day balloons and products are.

Double Trouble

From the moment they stepped into the studio, it was all giggles and laughter. Watching them light up around the balloons reminded us why we love what we do. It’s these moments—the joy, the smiles, and the magic of creating—that make our job so rewarding. And let's face it, there’s no better way to highlight the cuteness of our creations than with two happy little models who know how to have fun!

But the photoshoot is just one small part of what goes on behind the scenes. Running Hullaballoonza during one of the busiest seasons of the year is a true team effort. Husbands and partners are roped in to help build and decorate, while aunties, uncles, grandparents, and parents lend a hand with childcare or juggling homelife chaos. It’s a whirlwind of activity, but it’s also a testament to how much heart and soul we pour into what we do.

Head, shoulders, knees & toes time!

This year, we’ve expanded our Valentine’s Day collection beyond the traditional focus on husbands, wives, boyfriends, and girlfriends. We wanted to create something for the little ones, too. Valentine's Day is a perfect opportunity to teach our children about kindness, love, and care—not just for others but for themselves as well.

So, whether you’re celebrating with your significant other, your children, or even your best friends, our Valentine’s Day balloons and products are designed to spread joy in all shapes and sizes. And every design you see has a little piece of our family in it—literally!

Here’s to spreading love and laughter this Valentine’s Day. We can’t wait to share it with you. 💕

Order your balloons as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Click here to view the full gallery.

Love,

The Hullaballoonza Family