Silly Jilly the Balloon Artist and Clown

07/22/2025

🎂 Here I am volunteering with It's Your Birthday, a wonderful nonprofit that brings joy to children living in shelters by throwing them birthday parties.
🦖 In this photo, I'm performing my mis-made dinosaur routine! After several silly mix-ups, like a T. rex ending up with a Bluey head, the birthday kids waved magic wands and helped me finally fix the dinosaur.

07/21/2025

Serendipity Ice Cream has the most fun-loving customers. Even most of the adults wanted a balloon.

07/20/2025

🍨 It's National Ice Cream Day, and Silly Jilly the Balloon Artist will be twisting balloons at Serendipity from 4:00 to 6:00.
🎈 Like a year ago, I hope to run into some of Serendipity's longtime regulars who I recognize from my time making balloon animals at their previous location.

It was wonderful to be back at Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream for National Ice Cream Day! Before the pandemic, I used to create balloon animals at their old location on summer Mondays. Yesterday, I was happy to see at least three families who were regulars from those days. Here's a special then-and-now moment with a girl I made a My Little Pony for in 2018 and an axolotl yesterday, and her fun dad still loving balloon hats.

07/19/2025

07/17/2025

National Ice Cream Day Is This Sunday.
"What would National Ice Cream Day be without Silly Jilly. She'll be here from 4 to 6."

07/13/2025

Free Balloon Animals by Silly Jilly, Sunday, July 20, 4:00 to 6:00 at Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream.

💥 1 WEEK AWAY 💥 ! Sunday, July 20th 👉 everyone will be screaming for ice cream on , 🍨 which also happens to be Serendipity's 22nd anniversary.

Noon to 9 pm, Serendipity will be scooping ice cream, serving novelties, creating Dipity Doughs, and mixing up malts, shakes & Spirited Shakes.

🚨 Our extravaganza includes... ⚠️
• Hourly Specials: throughout the day
• Balloon Twister: Silly Jilly - 4 to 6 pm
• Free Koozie: one with pint purchase

Please share! Mark interested or going:
https://www.facebook.com/events/717311274427648/

07/08/2025

"Everyone enjoyed show today," writes The Morgan School.

I'm so glad students from The Morgan School were able to arrange the dinosaur parts correctly! At first, my dinosaur had its body on top of its head, then the dinosaur's body had a Bluey head. These three students magically fixed my dinosaur with a wave of their wands.

07/03/2025

Silly Jilly the Clown will be back in Wright City on August 1 for First Fridays.
Check out the photos from my Wright City visit last Friday (which was held on June 27, as July's first Friday coincided with Independence Day).
First Fridays on First is sponsored by the Wright City Downtown Revitalization Committee.

Wright City held its First Fridays event on June 27. The event featured vendors, live music, a balloon animal station, bubbles station and a firework show. To purchase photo reprints, call …