The Slice
Winter Ice Creations
2/25/2022 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
What started as an accidental discovery has turned into a hobby for Walter Sipila.
For years Walter Sipila has been filling balloons with water, then setting them outside when the temperature is between freezing and 15 degrees. What started as an accidental discovery has turned into a hobby for him. He hopes you'll try it out for yourself, and see the incredible beauty in this natural phenomenon!
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The Slice
Winter Ice Creations
2/25/2022 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
For years Walter Sipila has been filling balloons with water, then setting them outside when the temperature is between freezing and 15 degrees. What started as an accidental discovery has turned into a hobby for him. He hopes you'll try it out for yourself, and see the incredible beauty in this natural phenomenon!
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♪ Inquisitive Music ♪ I was sitting up in my upper room one evening and had a balloon and it was winter and I thought, Well, I wonder what will happen.
I'll fill the balloon up with water and stick it outside.
I left it for about a week and then when I opened it up, it looked like this.
And I thought, That's so beautiful.
And it took me quite a while to figure out how this happened.
And the key to it.
Is that small 15 degree or so temperature window?
That's about all it takes.
The hard part is to find a spigot that you can stretch the neck of a twelve inch balloon over, maybe you put a few drops of food dye in there, seal it with a twist tie.
Carry it out with some kind of container so it doesn't break.
Set it in the snow.
Just like that, if it's going to get colder than 15 degrees, you want to bury it somewhat.
That's about it.
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