As a (now retired) chemistry teacher, both hot air and gas balloons have been a great source of material.
There is already a topic
Show Us Hot Air Balloons!, but some of the postings have shown gas balloons, almost always using hydrogen.
I suggest we
don't include party balloons!Here is a first contribution to the topic, the USA aerogramme issued in 1995 celebrating
Thaddeus Lowe :

This is the photograph which was the basis for the design:
wtcrowe posted a fascinating
scan of an envelope addressed to Thaddeus Lowe