Cut several small strips of paper about 1 inch long and 2 mm wide and placed them on a table take a blown up balloon and rub it on your shirt. This will cause some of the electrons from the shirt to rub off on the balloon and then take the balloon and hover over above the paper what happened to the paper and explain why
When the rubbed balloon is hovered over the paper strips, they will be attracted to the balloon and move towards it. This phenomenon occurs due to static electricity.
Rubbing the balloon on a shirt causes the transfer of electrons from one surface (shirt) to the other (balloon). Electrons are negatively charged particles, so when the balloon gains some extra electrons from the shirt, it becomes negatively charged.
The paper strips, on the other hand, remain neutral initially. However, since opposite charges attract each other, the negatively charged balloon will attract the positively charged protons in the atoms of the paper. This attraction causes the paper strips to move towards the balloon.
In short, the presence of static electricity on the balloon causes an attractive force between it and the neutral paper strips. This force causes the paper strips to move towards and stick to the balloon.