About Stretch & Company

Stretch & Company is a family based business providing top quality balloon art, face painting and more for birthday parties, corporate events, school functions, festivals, church events and any other special event where balloon art or face painting will bring smiles to your guests and party goers. Stretch the Balloon Dude and Balloon Dawg are balloon artists and entertainers ready to twist balloons into smiles at your next birthday party, company picnic, festival, school carnival, grand opening, restaurant, or any other place where balloon animals would make your event more fun and exciting. Mrs. Stretch and Sean are face painters who can paint fun designs on faces, hands or arms, or use full face painting to transform kids of all ages into lions, tigers, dogs or crazy characters and creatures.

While we work primarily in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Stretch and Company is more than willing to travel anywhere if the price is right. Please contact Stretch or Mrs. Stretch if you would like to have us perform at your next event.



Stretch the Balloon Dude is a top level balloon twister in Grapevine, Texas, which is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. He takes balloons and twists them into animals, hats, vehicles, caricatures, and other zany creations. His twisted view of life in general and his warped imagination combie with his balloon twisting skills to produce some amazing art, and also give him the ability to make just about anything you can imagine out of these fun little latex tube filled with air. Balloon artist, balloon twister, or balloonologist, it doesn’t matter what you call it, it still spells fun and smiles for kids of all ages.

Stretch the Balloon Dude is known all over the US and abroad for his twisting skills and unique approach to balloon art. He was an instructor at Summer Balloon Camp 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Twist & Shout 2006 in St. Louis, Missouri and the Texas Clown Association 2006 Convention in Irving, Texas. Stretch was the featured lecturer for T Jam on the Road 2006 sponsored by T Myers Magic Inc and Betallic Balloons. T Jam on the Road 2006 covered 18 cities over a period of nearly six weeks and had nearly 800 in total attendance for the balloon twisting lectures that Stretch taught. He is also the ballon artist for the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and has been twisting balloons at home games and special events since the 2002-2003 season. His balloon art has been featured on game tickets and has made apppearances on local and national television broadcasts.



Are you looking for a Santa Claus to come to your Christmas party, company event, city parade or other holiday event? Santa Stretch is available to come spread some holiday cheer. No fake beard or hair here, Santa Stretch’s genuine white beard and hair will have even the most skeptical children ready to talk to Santa. Santa Stretch can come as a traditional Santa Claus, or he can put on his cowboy hat and boots and come as Cowboy Santa. Click the Santa image below to go to the Texas Santa web site and find out more about the Holiday Characters of Stretch & Company.



While Balloon Dawg hasn’t been twisting balloons for as long as Stretch, he has been around balloons since he was five years old. This constant exposure to the art of balloons has helped his understanding of what can be done with balloons grow and he is rapidly becoming one of the top balloon artists in the Dallas Fort Worth area of North Texas. His creativity and willingness to take on challenges is sure bring smiles to those at your event who get to watch him take balloons and twist them into works of art. He is one of the few entertainers that Stretch trusts to fill in for him at his events when he can’t be there. Dawg has worked with his parents in churches for many years and is very good with kids of all ages. His patience and ability to get on their level helps him win the hearts of children of all ages where he entertains.



Mrs. Stretch and Sean are face painters who can paint fun designs on faces, hands or arms, or use full face painting to transform kids of all ages into lions, tigers, dogs or crazy characters and creatures. They have been the official face painters of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team since the 2003-2004 season and have regular fans that come to get painted at every game. While they both paint similar designs, each has a style of their own that brings its own touch to whoever they paint. People of all ages love to sit and let a face painter create magic with paint, sponges and brushes.

           

Stretch and Mrs. Stretch are the co-founders of G.O.T. Balloons, a monthly Gathering Of Twisters in Grapevine, Texas with a membership of over 100 balloon artists from all over North Texas. G.O.T. Balloons is an informal jam where twisters of all skill levels get together to twist balloons, fellowship and share ideas. For more information head over to the G.O.T. Balloons web site at http://gotballoons.org to find out when the next meeting is and find out more about our monthly jams. G.O.T. Balloons has been meeting since April of 2003, and is one of the largest and oldest regularly held balloon jams in the country.

Stretch has released several instructional DVDS about balloon twisting. Whether you are a beginner, or an experienced balloon twister, Stretch has a DVD for you, with more on the way. All of these educational DVDs are filmed with an over the shoulder view that lets you see what a twisters sees when making a piece of balloon art. They are menu based, so you can go straight to the sculpture you want to learn. You can read more about them on Stretch’s DVD page.


Click the image above to find out about Stretch’s instructional DVDs

Stretch also makes Balloon Deliveries so you can share balloons and smiles from with someone in the Dallas-Fort Worth area no matter where you are. You can let someone know you care, or are thinking about them with a special balloon creation that Stretch will deliver personally to their home, office, hospital room or wherever else they might be. Balloon Deliveries are great for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or just to let someone know you're thinking about them. If you want to send a balloon to someone somewhere else, balloon deliveries can also be shipped.

Balloon twisting is great at birthday parties, company picnics, sporting events, church functions, schools, restaurants, malls, shopping centers and any other place where there are people. There is no age limit for balloons and they bring out the kid in all of us. Balloon creations are like smiles, they cross all language and age barriers, and there are very few places where a balloon twister isn’t welcome.

A balloon twister can take simple balloons and create fun balloon dogs, balloon animals, balloon hats or other fun things to brighten up your event. Check out the picture gallery to see examples of balloon animals and other twisted creations that balloon twisters can create, or just explore our site to find out more.

Click the images to see pictures of each of us.

       

A merry heart does good like a medicine.
Proverbs 17:22