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You will need
two balloons for your horse balloon animal.
The first balloon will form the horse's mane.
Just blow this up, inflate it and you
don't really need it inflated
very far - it is not crucial for
the main to be inflated to a certain
distance. So just be generous here.
The second balloon will form the body of the
horse balloon animal
and you want on the end maybe two or
three inches. Let's say three inches here.
And we're going to start at the nozzle
end of the balloon.
Now you're going to make two tiny pinch
twists which start as
basic twists. Now normally when you make
a basic balloon twist, if you're new to balloons,
you pinch and then you just twist the balloon. But in this
case we're going to have to make this
basic balloon twist very small and
then convert it into a pinch twist.
So it's important that
in order to make a very small basic balloon twist, I
have to actually put a little pressure
on it like this as
I pinch here and twist. So let me show
you what that looks like to make a very
small basic twist.
There, that's a tiny basic twist that's smaller
than the diameter of the balloon. Now
notice I'm holding it here if I don't
hold it it's going to come undone.
Now I hold it with my right hand. We're
going to take the nozzle
and wrap it into the twist right here
kind of bending it on itself.
And this will allow us to create the
pinch twist. So kind of bend it
together, nozzle into the twist here.
Now it helps if you pull up on the basic
twist and then do the twisting.
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And there you have it, one pinch twist
and we're going to do one more.
So remember to put the pressure with
this hand, pinch
and twist
and fold it.
Now this is a more conventional pinch
twist. 0:02:40.239,0:02:43.760. You're going to pull up and then twist
It helps if you pull up. If you try and
do this right here it's very hard to
twist. But if you pull up it gives you a
little more space.
Let me show you that
and you have a mouth for your
horse balloon animal.
Now let's make a head, maybe about that
long
for a horse head.
Two small basic twists, just as we did
here, but we're going to keep them basic
balloon twists.
So this is two small basic balloon twists and we're
going to form a balloon lock twist. So fold it
together like this,
hold it with the left hand, the entire
thing.
And now twist these together for a balloon lock twist
and there you have a horse's head.
Now all we have to do is make the body
and the body of the horse balloon is pretty much like
making a dog balloon body. So make a neck.
Remember to pinch and twist.
Let's give it a leg. Usually the horses
have long
legs. Notice how i'm holding right here.
If i let go of
this hand here it's going to come undone.
So we'll make a
leg here.
Fold. We're going to do this the fast way.
We're going to just
fold it and then pinch and twist right
here to make it in one motion.
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And you can see the front of our horse balloon animal.
A small body.
We're going to match the back legs
right there, just as we do with the dog balloon animal.
Fold it.
Hold it and twist.
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And there you have a horse balloon animal and you can
hand it out just like this and kids will
love it.
If you like you can kind of bend this
down. If you have a little more length
you can bend this down to
kind of evoke a horse's tail. And
that is a horse balloon animal right there. But we're
going to add one more detail
to the horse with our other balloon. So
let's get that out.
So with balloon number two we're going to
take the nozzle
and we're going to place it right here
into
the ears. So just wrap this around.
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There you go. And we're going to make a
mane. So we're going to make
three tiny basic twists
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Just as we did earlier, I'm putting
pressure here to make these as small as
possible.
Now with the three basic balloon twists, we're going to wrap
this
around the body and legs.
And same thing on the other side. Three
small basic balloon
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twists.
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Notice that I'm holding, and now
twist this into the ears.
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And you see the horse balloon animal. Let's get
some scissors now because we need to
remove this end here.
Now scissors are normally the
enemy of balloon animals. Normally if I was
just trying to remove this end, I
would use an advanced technique.
And then I can just wrap this up, tie
it up and then we'd be done with our
horse. But let's add a couple more
details. So what i'm going to do here
something a little different. I'm going
to squeeze here
because what I want is for this to be very
soft, to have some slack here.
See how i pushed all the air to the end
right there. Now if i cut right here
it's not going to pop. And
lets just let this deflate.
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Let this deflate. Notice I had to hold it
so it didn't deflate on its own.
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All I do is wrap this around the horse's
ear and neck
and you get a horse balloon animal with a mane
and lips.
Now if you want you can take this
and make a red tail that matches the
mane.
So i'll show you a little bit how to do
that. Let's get my pump.
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Pump.
So i've inflated the remaining balloon a
little bit
and let's tie it off. Here's how I tie
the balloons. I
wrap it around the two fingers grab it
between the two fingers and
pull this over. Now what I want to do
is just kind of make this nice and soft.
In fact, we'll push all the air
towards the other end here so if I want
a longer horse tail I can
make it this color. And let's see...let's
just make it
about that long. I twist it.
Now I'm going to cut off the rest of
this balloon.
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Tie a knot.
At this point if you like, you can remove
this tail
and then insert this here.
It's a little more work but it'll
give you a cooler looking horse.
We'll take our second tail
here.
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And there you go horse balloon animal with a tail.
One more thing, it's easy to turn this
into a unicorn balloon animal.
So you take another balloon. You probably
don't want orange here it just happened
to be
what I had around here. But all you do is
take an
end of a balloon and
cut it.
Now take this pump
and what you want to do is just put
enough air into the balloon so it has
body. You don't want it to be
fully inflated, just enough to have some
body. Hold it.
Tie a knot.
And you create a little horn and then
all you have to do...
all you have to do is insert this horn
into here.
And your horse balloon animal becomes a unicorn balloon animal.
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