Welcome to my balloon twisting for beginners series where I teach you
how to twist balloons like a pro Hi I'm Melanie from Balloon Artworks in Derbyshire
in the UK and today i'm going to show you how to make a balloon swan and the techniques
that we'll be using i'll be introducing the technique of pressure fitting and we're also
going to be using the shock twisting technique that you've already learned in previous lessons
so take a 260 in white and your hand pump and make sure that your hand pump is all the way down
and i'm going to inflate the balloon and just leave the tip for about four fingers or so three
to four fingers so we'll inflate one two three four five six seven okay i've immediately removed
the balloon from hand pump so i don't lose any air i'm going to soften the balloon slightly by
letting a little bit of air out and i'm going to tie okay so the time technique if you need
to revisit that check out lesson one where we made the pirate sword okay so this is going to be our
swans beak and we want to twist off a bubble for the neck that is approximately six inches
okay and then bring the end of your balloon here and just wrap that neck and nozzle through a few
times so you've got a big loop and the swan's neck and beak and we're now going to split this
balloon in half and this is quite a handy technique to have as well so if you're wanting to
split a loop a bubble a flower petal bubble a loop bubble in half like this
put the balloons together and pinch the end here so whilst you're pinching hold at this end just
twist the top balloon or the bottom it doesn't matter but just twist the top or the bottom
that splits your balloon in half so you've got two bubbles now that are pretty much the same size and
then what we just want to do now is take hold of this these two sections and bring them together
and twist okay so that's what you've got you've got two loops and you've got the swans neck
okay next take one of your loops and push it through the center of the other one
okay so this is where the pressure fitting comes in there's nothing
holding these two balloons together other than the pressure of the balloons against each other
at the moment this is upside down so i'll just turn it the right way up so these are the swans
wings and then we've got the swans tail coming out here and then just take the swan's neck and just
push the bottom of it in between these two balloons here so again that's just pressure fitted
so to get the shape of the swan's neck we need to spend the swan's neck over and just massage
the balloon a bit here so i'm just massaging it and stacking it between my fingers and we'll see
how that goes sometimes you need to do it's a little bit more so just massage this area here
and it's the ones of our hand that is distorting the shape of the swan's neck and then just
push the sun's neck in position and then you've got a one balloon swan using just a 260. remember
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