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For this balloon bow and arrow you're
going to need
three balloons. So let's start with the
first balloon.
You're going to inflate the balloon almost
all the way to the end.
Just leave a little bit of uninflated
end
to tie it.
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Take the uninflated end and the nozzle
and tie them together.
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You want this balloon to be fairly firm
because
that's the spring action that fires the
balloon arrow. Now we're going to make a basic
balloon twist in the middle
at the midpoint, right about here.
That's part one. Get your second balloon.
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Get your second balloon and inflate it to
about an inch from the end.
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What you do is attach this to our bow
with a series of balloon fold twists.
Take the nozzle and you're going to make
a full twist around
the bow here and reattach the nozzle
into here. With the full twist,
hold the nozzle and then make a twist.
Wrap the remaining around.
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Now we're going to do the same thing
making another fold twist on the other
side.
But this time you can fold the twist
into the middle here.
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Then this uninflated end twists into the
bottom here.
Just basically match the length and
we'll cut off the rest.
pinch the inflated end and cut.
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deflate tie it off
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now you need your next balloon for the
string
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You don't inflate this balloon at all. Simply
tie it at the top and
tie it at the bottom.
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Now take your string and tie it
down here to either piece of the balloon
that you have left
or to the intersection of the balloons.
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And you have your bow.
Now you just inflate a balloon to become
the arrow.
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You have your balloon for the arrow.
Inflate the balloon with maybe four or five
inches from the end.
You can inflate it all the way but I
think it becomes long and unwieldy. If
you have a full length of 260 balloon
inflate it part way, tie it off and
straighten it out. You have your arrow.
You're ready to put it all together.
What's cool about this bow and arrow is it
has this ledge here
to rest the arrow on.
So all you do is hold here,
the nozzle against the bow
and
if you like, you can create two pinch
twists on the bottom here to evoke
"feathers" on your arrow.
Sometimes they do get caught in the bow
here so that'll be up to you.
But you just feed this
through and
hold both sides of the balloon here
around the bow.
Flex the bow and let go.
You have a cool bow and arrow.
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