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Spell Bee Word: Balloon


What does balloon mean?

Word: Balloon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Balloon means a thin rubber bag that is filled with air or gas. It can float, bounce or burst with a pop.

How do you spell balloon?

Syllables: bal - loon

Tricky part: Balloon has two pairs of double letters: ll and then oo. Children often keep one pair and lose the other.

Watch out for: baloon, balun

Memory tip: Two l's, then two o's: picture two pairs of balloons tied side by side.

Balloon in a sentence

Example 1: Aarav tied a red balloon to his chair.

Example 2: The balloon went pop when it touched the cactus.

Example 3: We blew up twenty balloons for the party.

Fun Fact

Michael Faraday made the first rubber balloons in 1824 to use in his experiments with gas.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) candle
b) present
c) ribbon
d) bulloon

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d) bulloon. The first vowel in balloon is a, the same as in ball.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

onlobal

a) balloon
b) ballnoo
c) bllaoon
d) baoolln

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a) balloon. Put the two l's and the two o's together first, then fit the other three letters round them.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

balloone

a) l
b) o
c) e
d) n

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c) e. Balloon finishes with n, so the e at the end is extra.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

balloo_

a) t
b) m
c) d
d) n

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d) n. Balloon ends with the n sound, as in moon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To fill a balloon with air from your mouth, you ____.

a) pick it up
b) pull it up
c) blow it up
d) turn it up

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c) blow it up

2. Sonu's balloon popped as soon as it touched something sharp. What was it most likely?

a) a sponge
b) a pin
c) a feather
d) a ribbon

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b) a pin

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ba: banana, battery, badger, bake, banyan, baa

More words from this list

cart, define, food, jeans, nose, rice, spine, waiter

Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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