Another presentational idea, this time for the pin thru balloon. For your reading pleasure and my writing ditto:

Imagine you've produced your doves and floated your cane around for awhile. Now it's time to show something quite odd. Introduce a table with three inflated balloons - one red, one blue and one yellow. Also show three hatpins with matching color ribbons tied to them. Say: "If I poke the red balloon with the red pin, the red balloon pops. That is not strange." Pop the red balloon. "But if I poke the blue balloon with the yellow pin, the yellow balloon pops." You poke the blue balloon, but the yellow pops. "THAT is strange." "But..." you say and bring forth a white pin "...what happens when I poke the blue balloon with this white pin?" Poke the remaining blue balloon with the white pin - and the dove you just produced pops in a cloud of feathers! Tasteful, I know!

Josef K

Wow, you posted that just as I was thinking:
"What can I do with my new Exploding Dove™©®?"
:lol:

That's awesome!