Static Electricity - and charges
If you charge up a plastic comb or balloon, etc., enough to get a tiny spark, that surface charge can be on the order of a few thousand volts, due to the tiny capacitance of the object.  Whereas the chemistry inside a typical battery can only create a voltage of on the order of a single volt.

The difference in electric field potentials, and thus the force they can create, is thus several orders of magnitude.