Ready to make your first flower balloon? We're going to teach you the basic method.
First you'll need one color balloon and one green balloon. Inflate the color balloon with
about an inch of uninflated end. You're going to make a fold twist about three inches high.
And you make a second full twist. And from here, you're essentially just repeating the process to
make five petals. Now this method is the easiest method to make a flower but it is time-consuming
and we're going to show you a technique in just a moment on how to make these very quickly - an
advanced technique. Now here, I'm ripping the balloon. You can just use scissors to take off
the remaining balloon. Perhaps I'll show you how to do that this technique in another video but you
can just use scissors to cut off the end of the balloon. And then tie it off. Five fold twists
and you have and with a little bit of adjustment here:a basic flower balloon with five petals.
Now you need to make the stem. You take a green balloon and inflate it to about a half inch from
the end. Now I'm going to make a pinch twist here. But if you like you can keep it as a basic twist.
I think the pinch twist gives a more finished look without having the nozzle of the balloon
showing. And you place it in the center of the petals and there you have it. Now at this point
the balloon flower is facing up. By putting a pinch twist just a little after the balloon,
it makes the balloon flower face forward. And I think that's a better look. It's
personal preference but that's normally what I like do. Now you make a fold twist for one
leaf. Another fold. Just twist and there you have it, your finished basic flower,
ready to go. Now we're going to teach you a fast way that the professionals use to make
the flowers to make a six pedalled flower. Inflate to about two inches from the end. Now what you're
going to do is tie a loop. Now notice something here. I'm actually tying it without using all of
the inflated end. I want a little bit of slack in the balloon. And then at this point, I'm actually
squeezing the balloon so it distributes the air throughout. I want the balloon soft. If it's too
hard it's going to tend to pop. Now you make a twist in the middle. So I essentially create out
of one balloon two big basic twists. And we're ready to go. You're going to divide the balloon
into thirds - think thirds. And you twist a third point. Try and keep these as even as
you can because it will affect the proportions of your final flower. There it is, a stack of
three pairs and here you squeeze and twist. I'm going to show this to you again because this is
a fairly complex move and does require some strength. Here we go, showing you the stack
of three pairs of balloon twists. Basic twist now watch how I squeezed in and then I twist.
And there you have it a six peddled flower. Undoubtedly, when you first try this you're
going to get odd proportions and such but with some practice you'll be able to do this quickly
and learn. We're going to make our stem once more - just keep practicing and working at it.
Please take my advice of trying to keep the balloons soft. If you don't give some slack
in the balloon, it will tend to pop. And that's best advice I can give you. Alright,
and then we put the pitched pinch twist in the back and we're going to use the fast technique
for making the leaves here that we taught with the sword balloons. See how I made the "s" and
then we twist and in one motion I create the petals. And that is your fast balloon flower.
So that's something to work towards when you have to make a lot of balloon flowers at a gig. This is
an unusual flower you don't see very often. It's the iris and I think it looks great in
purple or dark blue for your flower itself. You only need to have a a bit uninflated and tie it
into a loop - the balloon into a loop knotted at the top. This one's really easy to make. In fact,
it's probably the easiest balloon flower I teach here on the video. Now we're going to
make two big basic twists, you're gliding the balloon and two basic twists you fold it in
half - twisted in half. And now on the bottom, maybe two-thirds the way down you give one more
twist and that forms the basic Irish balloon now we add our green balloon to the stem half
inches on inflated end . Jst take the nozzle and wrap it around the flower to attach it. There's
your iris balloon. And finally use our technique again from the balloon sword to make our flower.
Here's another balloon flower you don't see very often. It looks great but it is
time-consuming as there's no fast way to do this. You take your color balloon and maybe
four or five inches of uninflated end. And here we go a basic twist maybe an inch and a half in
height. Now you're going to make a pinch twist and one more basic twist to match the first one.
Twist these together and you've created one petal and that's pretty much the process. It's...you're
just going to repeat this. Once again, a basic twist. Try and make it match the first one with
a consistent pinch twist and one more basic twist. And now we have two petals. Repeat.
Let's just speed it up a little bit here. And we're just going to make four petals here for
demonstration purposes. I think it looks best with five but just for demonstration here we're
just going to cut things short here speed it up and there you have it four petals for this
balloon flower and. It looks great now. You have to remove the remaining balloon inflated
balloon. I use that tearing technique which I may teach in another video. Just knot it. If you can,
just use scissors to cut the rest of the balloon off and then tie it off. And you'll get this exact
same result just with some scissors. And we're going to add our stem once again. Pinch twist
and the process is identical to place the stem into the center of the flower. Just slide it
in. It'll hold. You can adjust the pitch twists as you like and back to our fast balloon sword
technique to create two leaves. Notice how I left the balloon facing up. This picture
has the balloon facing forward but I didn't put the pinch twist in. Just to be thorough,
here's a giant flower. This is not one of my favorites. You're going to need three color
balloons or maybe even four and one green balloon. This is what it looks like. I find it, you know,
kids might like it because it's big and sometimes kids want the biggest balloon you can make. All
you're doing is taking balloons, looping them in half and tying them off. And you essentially
create two petals out of one balloon so I just twist it and there we go. That's two petals. Let's
blow up another one. Make another one once again. Tie it off, essentially creating kind of something
that looks like a bow tie. There's the bow tie and then you connect the balloons together. Just
twist them together in the center and I think you can see how the flower begins to form. Now you
could stop here. I've seen people do that but I think it's a very scrawny looking flower balloon.
I'm going to do three here. There's one more pedal, actually with one more balloon, and
now we're doing a big fold twist with our green balloon. That'll be the center of our flower and
there you have it that's six pedals. Let's add one more a balloon and that'll make eight petals which
fills it in a little bit here. Let's do our fold twist once again with our green balloon place it
in the middle as you do with every flower balloon. We're going to make some adjustments and there you
have it eight petals out of four red balloons and one green balloon for the stamen the giant flower.
Anyway I hope you found this video useful. Thank you so much for watching and please subscribe.
And there's a lot more balloon videos coming down the pike so please comment and and let me
know what balloons you'd like to see taught in these videos. We'll see you next time.