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I'm using a green balloon here to make the
turtle but the turtle and the ladybug
are
identical. Although with the turtle balloon animal bracelet, I'm
going to make it one way
and with ladybug balloon animal bracelet, as you'll see, I'll make
it in a different manner,
pretty much in the treatment of the face
and head. Inflate your balloon
leaving about four or five inches, three
or four or five inches it really doesn't
matter.
That's not crucial and we're going to
start with our nozzle end as we normally
do.
Now first of all, we're going to make a
basic balloon twist, a very tiny basic balloon twist.
And something you have to remember if
you're new to balloon animals, remember to
always pinch
first and then do the twisting with the
other hand.
So let's do that, a tiny basic balloon twist.
Notice how i'm holding the balloon with my left hand.
I haven't let go and now the left hand
has to creep over here and hold.
If I didn't do that this would come
undone. It's a fundamental skill when
making balloon animals. Now we're going
to make
four basic ballloon twists, very small just like
this one. So let's do that.
It's all the same pinching and twisting of the balloon.
And notice that I'm holding here otherwise it
would come undone.
But I do have to hold so that I can twist
and hold the last one and twist the balloon.
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Now at this point, if I hold the first
one balloon twist
and the last balloon twist here of the main balloon,
this doesn't come undone.
Now you have something that looks like
this. We're going to twist
this part of the balloon here into this here. Watch how I do
that.
This goes together
and now we twist here
and what we've done is we've formed the
head
and the feet of the turtle balloon animal.
Now it's time to create
the shell. Now we have two small feet
here
and we're just going to make a short
shell
approximately this long. Whatever you end
up with here you can make the feet
larger and the head larger but normally this
is crucial. You want the
body or the shell to be about this
length here.
So let's do that.
That looks good now this gets pushed
through here. I'm going to do that.
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You end up with something like this and I
have to admit that you're probably going to
be a little nervous doing that so
just gently push through and and it will
turn into this.
And finally, one more basic balloon twist here to
match the one here - you can make it even
smaller or even longer if you like a
longer tail. Slet's do that.
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Now watch. I'm holding, otherwise it would
come undone and now you need scissors
which
you saw right here. Why do I have
scissors? Scissors are normally the
the enemy of a balloon animal but not in this
case. It's going to help us accomplish
what we want to do.
You're going to take your balloon's nozzle
end and we're going to cut
this off and deflate the balloon up to
the point of the tail.
A couple important things here. First of
all, I'm holding
here to make sure that once I deflate
this part of the balloon, it doesn't
completely deflate and deflate
the tail here. Second of all, when I cut
I'm not cutting this part. If I cut this
part, the balloon is going to pop which you don't
want.
So what I'm doing is I'm just cutting
the slack here at the very end.
I can let go. Remember, I'm pinching over
here, otherwise it'll deflate the whole
balloon.
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Now I can tie a knot here.
Here's how I tie the knot of a balloon. I wind it
around two fingers,
grab it here between my two fingers and
then I pull
this over
and I've made my cute little turtle.
This is like a rubber band. Here we're
going to secure this to the neck and all
you have to do
is just wind it around the neck a couple
times. And don't make it too tight.
You want to have a little slack so
somebody could easily put their wrist
through. There. So let's wind it around
the head.
You have your turtle balloon animal and you have
it here. Now
you add your markers and you're ready to
go and finish your
turtle balloon animal.
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Here's how to make a balloon animal ladybug bracelet.
It's identical to the turtle so we're
going to inflate
our balloon leaving four or five inches
at the end of the balloon. It's not crucial
and obviously, I'm using red for the
ladybug balloon animal bracelet.
Starting at the nozzle and we're going
to make a tiny basic twist
just as we did with the turtle balloon animal bracelet. You want
to squeeze and make a tiny basic balloon twist.
Here we go.
Remember to pinch a balloon twist and then move
the hand over here.
Now we're going to do something
different. We're going to hold with the
right hand
and then take the nozzle here see how I'm
taking the nozzle.
You're going to fold the nozzle in, into
the balloon twist right here. And we're going to
create a balloon pinch twist.
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So kind of fold it over and now twist the balloon
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and you got a different head for your
ladybug balloon animal bracelet.
And now everything else is identical to
the
turtle balloon animal bracelet6. So let's do that. We're going to make
four small basic balloon twists
just as we did with the turtle balloon animal bracelet. You're
going to twist this into here so let's do
that.
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Now we're going to make a shell for our
ladybug balloon animal bracelet.
So I'm going to make it right about
there.
Remember to pinch and twist. Now this
gets pushed through
before here.
And finally a tiny little tail.
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Remember to hold and now we're going to
cut off the
end of the balloon here so get some scissors.
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Hold it make sure you hold the balloon right here.
Pinch the balloon so the air doesn't escape
because you don't want this tail to
deflate.
I'm going to let go.
I'm holding the balloon here. Now tie a knot.
Here's how I tie the knot. I wind it around my
fingers, two fingers and then
grab it with these two fingers and then
pull it through.
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And now you can take this and and attach
it to the neck
of the ladybug balloon animal and this of course forms
your
bracelet.
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A few times around normally does it.
Get out your markers and you have your
cute little ladybug balloon animal bracelet.
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