Let's start with our first balloon sword. If you need help with the basic techniques,
you'll find a video link in the information section.
For this balloon, start off with one inch of uninflated end.
Make a small basic twist about an inch in size.
Now you're going to make a fold twist about three inches in height.
Take the end of the sword and push it through the fold twist.
And you have to make a basic
sword
that is fast and easy to make.
It's not very stable if you have a bunch of kids and
parents having sword battles at a party. You''re going to find that these things tend to get out of shape.
But as well as pop but that goes for all balloons swords but this one will tend to
fall out of shape rather quickly. But they're fast and easy and we're going to show you some variations now on it.
For the variation you may need about three to four inches of uninflated end.
Begin again, this is very similar to the first process. Make a small basic twist and then a fold twist about three inches in height.
Now you're going to make a series of small basic twists about an inch in length that kind of resembles a string of pearls.
Push the opposite end of the balloon through the fold twist and now you get a distinctly different look that's far more ornate balloon
sword. It takes a lot longer to make but I think the results are quite worth it.
If you have the time, it's a great looking sword that will be popular.
This one won't be as stable as the first version because of all of its additional basic twists in it. But it looks great.
And one more variation that's very similar
in construction but has a decidedly different look. Once again, three and a half inches, three inches
of uninflated end. You'll have to experiment with that. Now we're going to do something slightly different -
you can do this on all the balloons of this variety..
You can actually do a pinch twist here as opposed to leaving it leaving it as a small basic twist.
Ithink it gives a more finished look
without having the nozzle at the end.
And you can look at it for yourself and see if you like it. Again our five after the full twist are five basic
twists about an inch in diameter a piece,
resembling a string of pearls
Once again, we take the end push it through the
fold twist, and we basically have the same sword as the last version, but check out what I'm doing here.
I'm actually bending it in the opposite direction.
And now with the pinch-twist on the bottom and the blade bend up, as opposed to down,
it gives it a decidedly different look.
There it is.
Now let's compare the two this is version two and version three, side by side. There
you can see how they look different. Between the two I like the green one because
when people are holding the sword they actually have a just a piece of, a segment of balloon as opposed to holding the pearls,
which I think
is more comfortable as well as will prove to be more durable. So between these two, I like the green one and you have your
choice of whatever you like. Okay, this is the second basic type of sword balloon made from a single
balloon.
This is the Deluxe version shown there. We're going to start out fast and easy. Leave an inch of uninflated end.
This is the very basic one.
Make a basic twistsof about four to five inches.
One fold twist
maybe about two inches high. A
second fold twist
Try to match it.
match the first one and
you're basically done you have a
simple balloon sword.
These are fast and easy to make
Thing is they're not very stable and we're going to add a couple details on this next version which will
make it more attractive as well as add stability
Once again, maybe inch and a [half] to two [inches] of uninflated end.
And what we're going to do is instead of starting with the basic twist that creates the handle we're going to do two pinch twists.
This will form a decorative element at the end of the handle.
I think that it looks a lot better than just having the nozzle of the balloon there.
Now a basic twist to form the handle, about four to five inches.
One fold twist.
A second fold twist that matches the first. We have our hand guards and a basic sword balloon.
You can stop at this point but
we're going to add one element that I think looks great and adds to the stability.
There's the first pinch-twist that's going to go between the hand guards and between the blade and handle.
A second pinch twist.
And there you have it.
A balloon sword that's made from a single balloon. It takes a little longer to make
but it's that addition of the pinch twist between the hand guards that really adds stability.
This balloon will prove to be among the more durable single balloon
swords that you can make. Now there's a very fast way to make this balloon, and we'll show it to you now.
Think of an "s" or "z" when you're twisting, well, it's up to you depending on the way you look at it.
But there's the "s" shape,.I'm making an "s" out of the balloon. No, I'm not actually going to twist it
from this point.
I'm just
showing you the "s," but see how I compress it down. Now the "s" shape is there but with one single twist through the middle, I
make the handle, as well as both hand guards, in a single fluid motion.
When you've got a lot of balloon swords to make, this might be the way to go It's very fast and
this is what the pros use. And now we have a second variation on this,
Let's start out with the basic version.
You need about an inch and a half, two inches there.
On the uninflated end.
Basic balloon twists about three to four inches for the handle, one fold twist, two fold twists...
And a third - try and get these fold twists about the same,
and now we've
spread out the hand guards to make something that looks more like a foil.
The sword takes a completely different shape at this point even though. It's based on the original version.
So that's another sword you can make that will be popular as well as fairly durable.
Finally, a fast way to make this. About an inch or inch and 1/2 of uninflated end.
Now instead of an "s" as we did in the last fast version, in this advanced version, I'm making an "m." See the "m" right there?
Out of the balloons?
Kind of line them up and right through the middle, there's one twist.
A fluid motion that creates
the three fold twists in a single motion and you have your sword. This is great for parties] where you have to make a lot of balloons.
And it's a great sword the kids and everyone will enjoy.
Just for fun. Let's do a fast one without purposes of demonstration and stopping, we're just going to fly right through it
just like I was making these. And right there, in that little time
That's one balloon that's ready to hand out so the kids can go out there jump in the bounce house.
And he's ready to ready to take on the world.