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For your crown balloon hat you're going to
need two balloons. We're going to
use a blue balloon for the band part of the crown
that around the head.
And so i'm leaving about an inch of
uninflated end.
We're using a pink balloon for the points of the balloon crown and
for this balloon, the inflation is not crucial.
So i've got it inflated to about four
inches from the end.
If you're new to balloons and balloon animals, the reason
why we leave uninflated ends
is so as you twist, the air gets
displaced.
And if you're making say a dog balloon animal, you want
to leave
this uninflated end so the air has some
place to go. And ideally, at the end of making the dog balloon animal,
it comes out
nice and even. We're going to start with
the headband of the crown balloon,
the part of the crown balloon that goes around the head. Let's remove this
balloon.
We'll come back to
the headband of the balloon crown. Now something crucial about
making any kind of balloon hat is that
it has to fi. Sometimes you
go through all this detail and time and
effort to make a
crown balloon or other balloon hat and then you find
out that it doesn't fit the kid
or the adult. And so for this reason I
always make my balloon hats
adjustable. So here, I'm going to give
you some tips on how to do that.
I used to just make the crown balloon hat and try
and estimate and it
blew up on me many times. And so I came
up with this
adjustable balloon crown hat. And I think it worked out
well for me. It fits on anybody's head
with just a minor adjustment, even after making it.
What I like to do is take
my balloon, fold it in half and then
find the midpoint. And then i just move
over just a little bit
of the midpoint. Depending on how you
inflate and twist the balloon crown hat, it won't come out
even every time, but usually comes pretty close.
So here's where you make your first
twist. You make a basic balloon twist here
at that spot that's off-center and
you're going to make a pinch twist. So
remember, you have to hold with your left hand,
otherwise everything comes undone.
Move your hand over and grab the balloon, now we're
going to make a basic balloon twist,
about an inch.
Fold, and now we're going to make a balloon pinch
twist. So grab the balloon
with the left hand and you're going to pull
this
up and then twist. Remember, it helps to
pull
up a little bit. If you don't pull up,
it can be really hard to make this twist. So
just grab it and pull up and twist it
and there you have a pinch balloon twist. We're
going to follow that with another basic
balloon twist, and another basic basic twist. Notice how I'm
moving my hand
over and then make a balloon pinch twist.
And this one we make a little bigger. So
I'm going to make it. Instead of this I'm
going to make it
maybe twice the distance.
Make another balloon pinch twist.
And we're going to need one more so we
need this distance once more.
And one more balloon pinch twist.
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And there you have it.
This one didn't come out quite even but it'll
still work because all you're doing is
twisting these parts of the balloons together
to adjust to the size of a person's head.
And it might have a little bit of a
"tail" here but you can trim that off if
you want.
What you're doing is you just allow
this balloon crown to adjust on a person's head. So
just for now,
I'm going to twist it right about here.
Now we're ready to add the points of the balloon crown.
Get your second balloon for the points.
You're going to take the nozzle
and you're going to wrap the nozzle
around
one of the side pinch twists.
Let's do that
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Just attach it. Now you're going to make a
basic balloon twist -
maybe about two inches long.
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Move your hand over. You can make a balloon pinch
twist here so a basic balloon twist,
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fold, hold.
Now remember to pull up and twist.
This is the first of the points for the
crown balloon.
Now for this basic balloon twist here you match
this one here so it should be
right about there, and then with this
balloon twist here
you're going to wrap it around here.
See the balloon crown forming? Now for this next one
I'm going to make it bigger. You can make
it the points even in height,
an even crown. But I like to make the
center point larger so let's just go
a little higher, maybe right about there.
That's a nice distance.
Basic balloon twist. Hold, and make a basic balloon twist
again,
about an inch in length.
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Fold now, and make a balloon pinch twist to make a
point just like this one. So remember to
pull up and twist.
Take this basic balloon twist here and match the
one here.
So right about there looks good.
Pinch and twist.
This wraps around this balloon pinch
twist here.
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Finally, you want this balloon crown point here to match
the one here, so you kind of get a
symmetry thing going.
So i'm going to say it's right about
there.
Balloon pinch twist, move over, and hold.
Basic balloon twist.
Turn it into a balloon pinch twist by folding,
holding, pull up and twist.
And finally, this basic balloon twist here
matches this one here.
So right about there.
Now just as we did with the other parts
here we're going to push
this balloon twist into here, so let me show you
what that looks like.
At this point your balloon crown is almost done
but you have this
tail on the end. How do you get
rid of this? Well let me show you the
easy way.
What you do is pinch the end here and
make sure you create some slack in your balloon.
Take out some scissors. Normally
you wouldn't want scissors near your
balloon animals but you don't cut
here because it's going to cause it to
pop. This area of the balloon is under tension.
So what you're going to do is cut right
here, an area that's not under tension. So let me
just do that.
And now I can let go and the balloon section will deflate,
and then i can just wrap this around
this
balloon pinch twist here.
Adjust and you have your crown balloon hat
that you can hand out at parties
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if you like you can turn them this way
or
this way, it's up to you.
crown balloon hat, oh, and by the way
you just un-twist this and then move
this around to adjust to the different sized
heads.
And there you have a crown balloon hat.
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