Once you have prepped all of the spirit balloons you plan to use, it is time to head outside and launch everything. The giant balloons will probably come with weights on them, and I'd recommend keeping them in place until you're ready to send each one up.



Pick a place close to your house, and preferably away from any paths where people might be walking; if the wind picks up a bit, and the balloons start drifting, you don't want the lines falling across where people can get tangled in them.



Pull a little lead off the reel of fishing line (don't cut it yet!) and tie it to one of the black balloons. Once it is secured, cut off the weights and start letting out fishing line so the balloon rises about 15 feet in the air. If your first spirit is too close to it, when people look up, they are more apt to see the black balloon and spoil the mystery. If it is really too close, it could even illuminate the black balloon a bit, so give yourself a good deal of room.



Once it has floated up a bit, tie a loop in the line. I'm not too versed in knots, but hopefully the pictures show what I'm talking about. Since it's really hard to see the fishing line, I took pictures of the same process using regular string.



With the loop in place, tie the lead from the spirit balloon to the loop, and then start letting out more line to send that one up in the air. After that balloon is 5 or 10 feet above you, repeat the process with the next one. If you are using 1 glow stick per balloon, you can place at least 3. If you're using 2 glow sticks per balloon, you'll only be able to attach 2 of them. Once you've got your final one attached and floated up, tie the line off on something secured to the ground.



Keep your helper handy for this process, it's a little tough to juggle all the stuff on your own.