Here's how to make your swan balloons on a heart.
We're going to need four balloons: red one for the heart, we have a blue balloon for
the stick and we have purple that I'm going to use for the swans themselves.
Let's start with the heart.
Deflate this balloon all the way.
Take your inflated balloon and twist it together at the end.
You’ve formed a loop.
Now let's turn this into a heart.
Find the midpoint and grab it in your left hand.
Now you're going to go through a process of turning this or forming it into a heart.
So I like to hold it here.
I like to pull the loop here.
I also like to press around the edges to round it.
Let me show you what that looks like.
And we have a pretty good looking heart.
We're going to have to take it apart in just a moment to put the swans on.
But we just formed the heart.
Now we can form the stick.
Balloon number two, is the blue one for the stick Inflate this one all the way.
Fold the balloon in half.
Find the midpoint and twist there.
Make a pinch twist on each side here.
Now I'm going to take my hand and I'm going to use my thumb and my fingers and move them
like this: catching the balloon here and catching it here to make a twist.
Twist them together at the top and we have our twist.
Now we have to make the swans.
Got your purple balloon?
To make your swan inflate this one to about three inches from the end.
Form it into a loop.
Now this is an unusual balloon because the uninflated end here will act as the beak of
your swan.
So we're actually starting from the nozzle end.
But you have to leave a little bit to suggest a beak.
So form a loop and make a small basic twist here.
You have your small basic twist.
Let's turn this into a pinch twist.
Now that we have our pinch twist, I like to think of the swan balloon in thirds: two thirds
becomes the body and a third becomes the neck.
So i think right about there's a pretty good estimation.
So twist the pinch twist into here.
Now we have a loop.
Find the midpoint and offset it a bit.
Make a basic twist there.
You want these to be lopsided.
Twist this into the pinch twist.
What you do is take the longer of the two: you have a lopsided bow tie and push this
through the middle here.
And you have your swan balloon animal.
So follow these directions again to make your second swan and you do want to add a curve
to this, but we'll do that a little later after we put this onto the heart.
Let's bring out our heart and put it all together.
Got your heart balloon?
Untwist this
and what you're going to do is thread the heart balloon through the middle of the swan
and it goes on this direction.
Got your two swan balloons on the heart?
With your swans on, now we can form the necks.
So hold and pinch here at the beak and twist.
Now put it on the stick.
Now we have these two basic twists here and all you're going to do is twist them into
these here
Make some adjustments and you now have your swans on a heart balloon.