If you're ready to make your first flower balloon, let's get started.
Hello everyone.
If this is your first time making a balloon flower, I've got a video here that will help
you to be successful.
Let's talk a little bit about balloons first.
Make sure that you have good quality balloons.
And they are not old and brittle.
This will help prevent balloons from popping.
Second of all, check your fingernails.
Make sure there are no sharp edges because these tend to catch on balloons and cause
them to pop.
Now let's talk a little bit about balloons themselves.
When you twist balloons, we always recommend that you leave a certain portion of the balloon
at the uninflated end.
And the reason for this is whenever you twist a balloon you are actually displacing a little
bit of air in the balloon and it has to go somewhere.
And it goes up here in this uninflated end.
So ideally, when you make a sword balloon or flower, you're twisting away and at the
end, this will completely fill up and you'll have an even animal or whatever sculpture
you are making and that's the reason why we have this uninflated end.
Now we're going to switch to a first person view to make it more helpful in learning how
to do this.
For the petals, you're going to need a single balloon.
And inflate it to three or four inches from the end.
Starting at the nozzle.
I'm going to start out with something called a "fold twist."
So hold with the left hand at the nozzle end.
Fold it.
Hold it with the left hand here.
And now we're going to twist right here.
Now something that helps is if you pinch with the right fingers and then twist.
It makes it a lot easier.
So pinch.
Twist.
Now take the nozzle and wrap it around this twist here.
Something that helps if you feed the nozzle through the center
of the petal.
And there you have a single petal.
We are now going to make three more of these to form the petals of the flowers.
So once again.
Fold.
Try and make it about the same size.
Hold with the left hand.
Pinch.
And twist.
Two petals.
Now just repeat the process two or three more times.
Same process.
Fold.
Hold.
Twist again.
And you're forming the petals.
Let's do one more.
Fold.
Pinch.
Twist.
We're going to stop here at four because it gets a little clumsy to show this on camera.
But you can easily make five, maybe even six if you make smaller petals.
Now, you have essentially a flower here.
But you have this end here or remaining balloon.
What do you do with it?
Well, what you do is hold it.
Grab a pair of scissors.
And then take this, hold the uninflated end and just trim off the end.
Now you can let go - let the air out.
And then take this, and wrap it around the petals.
And you have your four-petal flower.
Now let's work on the stem.
For your stem you're going to take a green balloon and inflate it to about an inch from
the end.
Let's start at the nozzle end.
Hold with the left hand.
Pinch with the left fingers.
And twist with the right hand.
Now bring in your flower petals.
What you're going to do is take this basic twist - notice how I'm holding everything
with my right hand so it doesn't come undone.
And insert the basic twist in the middle of the flower here and pull the rest of the balloon
underneath the petals.
And you have a flower balloon.
Now something that adds a nice little detail is if you make fold twists right here in the stem.
And they're essentially just the same fold twists here.
So what you're going to do is take your left hand and pinch and twist.
Make a fold.
Hold.
Pinch and twist Twist again.
One more to match.
So hold.
Fold.
Try and make this one similar in size this one.
Hold with the left hand.
Pinch.
Twist.
Now twist it againj.
And there you have your flower balloon.
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