Silly String is brightly colored, plastic string propelled as a stream of liquid from an aerosol can. The solvent in the string evaporates in mid-air and creates a continuous strand. It has various knock-offs called Whacky String or Party String or similar.
Silly String is often used during festive occasions such as weddings, birthday parties, carnivals and other events such as baby gender reveal parties. That’s right. Some couples who know the sex of their baby will buy a bunch of cans of Silly String in pink for girls or blue for boys depending on the sex of the baby. The cans are wrapped so no one can see the color of the contents and using a count down everyone squirts the Silly String into the air revealing the baby’s sex. Yippee!
The military uses it to detect tripwires in places like Iraq. Talk about multi-functional eh?
According to Wikipedia a United States Patent was issued to the founders of Silly String, Leonard A. Fish and Robert P. Cox in 1972 as a “foamable resinous composition”. The partners initially wanted to create a can of aerosol that you would be able to spray on a broken/sprained leg or arm and turn into an instant cast. The invention was a success. But when it came down to packaging the can, the founders had to go through a box of 500 different kinds of nozzles. The article goes on to say that after going through about 30 or 40, Fish pressed one nice string that shot about 30 feet across the room. From there Fish came up with an idea to make the string less sticky and add different colors. Sort of like with Silly Putty, a fun toy came out of a sort of failed experiment.
Eventually Wham-O signed a contract with the founders to license what we now know as Silly String.
Basically it is just fun to squirt each other.
Raise your hands if you like playing with Silly String.
Yeah, me too. It always makes me smile.
Have you had the chance to play with Silly String or use it for some sort of other activity? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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this is a very good choice to have fun in birthday or others kind of party.
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Yeah, even like I said in the post – Baby sex reveal parties. I had never heard of such a thing but sounds good to me.
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Like the list of smile, silly string with the attractive way, of course. It is really enjoyable to do a party and passing the time together with friends and family.
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Oh for sure it is fun at any type of party
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Everyone enjoy to have a great fun in Birthday Parties.
A Person can merely enjoy two occasions relating to him/her personally.
One, is Birthday – a day in a year.
Another, is Marriage Day – A Day in a Lifetime.
Both are most precious ones, which stay memorable for a long time. All the Best..
Good point although I suggest there are other days relating to him/her personally such as graduation, shipping off to basic training day, first gold record, first ‘kiss’ and others.
Still, I appreciate your comment and do welcome you back for more discussion.
Cheers.
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This is very fun activity which one can use in any event ..can be used by adults and kids both.Its so interesting which makes the event more enjoyable.
Interesting..Great read.
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Silly String rocks! And so do you Laura!
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Awww…such an awesome game for kids.
Kids love to play with these kind of silly plus different things. They enjoyed a lot when they get indulge in these kinds of activities. This is the most amazing thing that the solvent in the string evaporates in mid-air and creates a continuous strand.
Thanks for this share and i am also going to tell my kids about this and definitely they will gonna like it. 🙂
Not just ‘kids’ Fred. 🙂
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Amazing and Interesting things to read and learn. Its amazing to find something interesting and cool.
Yeah They are amazing, I have lot of fun with them. And your post provides good insights on them, very informative.
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