Thanksgiving Day Parade

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This special blog post is about the Macy's Day Parade. It occurs in NYC every Thanksgiving where you can see fabulous performers, floats and large balloons! But you really don't know how hard everyone works for this special preparation. The marching band walks two and a half miles, while playing their instruments.The different balloons are made out of Styrofoam and is carved by hand. Making all the balloons takes a year round effort. Then, the carved Styrofoam is coated by a product called hardcoat, which is a flame retarded plastic which creates a hard shell. But before they made the real copies, the creators of the balloons made a clay model of the character that would appear in the Macy's Day Parade. And then, after the model, they would have to create the larger versions. They used cloth for the balloons and then painted them to match the character. That is not all for the amazing Thanksgiving Parade. There are a lot of musicals and performers such as the Rockettes that have to do practice after practice to get perfection when it's time for them to perform. The amount of work that is put into the Thanksgiving Parade is immense! Are you ready?
3..., 2..., 1..., LET'S HAVE A PARADE!