Hi everyone Melanie here from Balloon Artworks today I'm going to be showing
you how to make an easy balloon pony or balloon horse and we're just going to be using
two 260 balloons for your balloon pony twist off a bubble this is about
four fingers okay and then make a very small loop okay have about three fingers and twist
okay so that's what you've got make another loop to match this one you might want to
give your balloon a little bit of a squeeze so make another small bubble
small loop sorry so to match that's what you've got and we want to make a long neck
for our horse so a bubble of about four inches hold on to this as you make the next sections
of the balloon otherwise the sculpture will unravel and then make a bubble
of about three inches that's about five of my fingers and make another bubble to
match this one but you must hold on to this first one and this last one okay
so make another bubble to match this one so that's what you've got bring the two together
and twist them around okay so this is what you've got so far give your balloon a squeeze and you'll
see now that the balloon is fully inflated okay and we want to twist off another bubble
of about four fingers and then make another pair of legs to match these
so we want very similar sizes of legs okay and then make another bubble to match this one okay
and then twist the two together
okay so that's what you've got next take another
260. I've got a nice long tail we're not going to use all of this balloon
okay take the neck and nozzle knotting nozzle and wrap it into the front of the horse's legs here
wrap that around and just hide the knot in the back here okay
and we're going to create a series of four bubbles so twist off a bubble
that is about two fingers okay hold on to this bubble
twist a second bubble that is the same sort of size a third bubble again similar sort of size
and a fourth bubble okay so it's really important that you hold on to this first bubble and your
the end of your balloon because if you let go of either end these bubbles will unravel okay
so what we need to do now is just bring this chain of bubbles up into the towards the horse's ears
and then wrap them into the ears and at this point once you wrap them in
you can let go of these bubbles because they're all nice and secure so we've got the balloon
coming from between the horse's ears make sure it's nice and soft because we want to make a very
soft loop so I'm just bending the balloon over and I'm going to make a very soft and very small loop
okay and I'm just going to twist that around so this is the little fringe or four lock
for our horse okay and that's just going to sit on top of the horse's forehead okay and then we're
going to make another series of four bubbles to go down the other side of the horse's mane so twist
off another bubble of about two fingers again hold on to this whilst you twist a second bubble
similar sort of size they don't have to be
identical just close is good enough so we've got three bubbles there and we want one more
okay so we've got four bubbles and we are now going to pull those into the
base of the horse's neck okay
and that's what you've got at the moment so we can just adjust
the mane just to pull it backwards a little bit
and then we can trim off the rest of this balloon cut it off or break it off whichever you prefer
and tie
and cut off the excess so whilst you're here I'd be grateful if you would pop that like button
so one thing I like to do is just take hold of this knotting nozzle here and I pull it
back and up underneath the chin I don't wrap it into anything but doing that just kind of
elongates this part of the horse's face and then I can just trim off the nozzle and tidy up the nose
and there you've got a really quick and easy balloon horse using just two
260s I'll see you in the next lesson