Hello everyone. In this video, I'm going to teach you how to make a
very easy sword. So all you need is a balloon You can use balloons from your dollar store
or your local party store. It also helps to have a pump that makes it a lot easier.
Let's inflate our balloon and we're going to leave maybe about a half inch of uninflated end. Let's
inflate. I have inflated the balloon and left about a half inch of uninflated end. The reason
why we do this is that every time we twist the balloon it actually displaces a little
bit of the air in the balloon and you need a place for that air to go. So at the end,
ideally, your balloon will be all filled out and even. Let me show you how to tie the balloon.
What I like to do is hold the balloon between my first
finger and my thumb. Notice how the balloon is across my hand. I take my right hand and reach
underneath. I grab the nozzle and then I'm going to pull it around and underneath.
I bring it up and notice how I catch the nozzle in between my first and second finger. Now I
can grab this loop and pull it over and pull. With these two fingers it will tie the balloon.
So what you want to do is just get a handle - something for a handle. We're going to make
what's called a basic twist. Now something to keep in mind when doing this is that you pinch
first and then do the twisting. It makes it a lot easier. So hold here and pinch and twist.
Two or three times is usually good. Now watch what happens if I let go of my left hand.
It actually comes undone which we don't want. So once again, let me show you.
You have to keep a hold of your left hand here
so it doesn't come undone. Now watch my left hand. It creeps up to the next spot and that
way I can hold and this keeps this from coming undone and then I can twist the next part.
Now we're going to twist what are called fold loops (twists). Just two fold loops for
our sword balloon. Let me show you what that looks like. Essentially we're creating small loops.
What we're creating is essentially a hand guard. Notice how I
folded the balloon here .And now I'm going to pinch here and I'm going to twist it
this way. So watch how I do that. I pinch. I twist.
Now that we've made this full twist it actually locks everything in place
and I can get let go of my left hand. And now we're going to repeat here what we did here.
So once again, try and make it match. We're going to fold it and then hold. Now
adjust.
That's your very simple sword balloon. Notice how it did fill out at the end and it's ready to hand
out and give away at a party. Just for fun, I'm going to show you how to do this very quickly
in the next step. If you have to make a lot of balloon swords, you're going to want to know
how to do this. Once again, I've inflated the end to about a half inch uninflated end. Now
I showed you how to make the earlier sword, the simple sword,
by actually making two fold loops. But there's a way to automate the whole process so let me
teach this to you. It's going to take some practice but I'd like to show it to you.
I'm going to make something of a 'z."
You see the z shape. There, let's see if I can get it on camera. There we go. That's the "z"
shape. Now combine the pieces together. Hold
the left hand. And believe it or not, by just twisting here i'm going to complete
and make my sword. So it's going to be a big twist so you've got
to kind of pinch - pinch with the right hand and watch what happens.
I've saved a step. So if you have a lot of kids at this party, and you're
going to want to make tons of swords, this is the way to do it.