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First get your balloon
and inflate it to about two to three
inches from the end.
Why do we do this? Well, as you twist your
balloon the air displaces with each
twist.
And ideally, at the end, you'll fill this
out
so you'll have a nice even end to your
pirate balloon sword.
We're going to start with the nozzle end.
First of all, we're going to create
what's called a basic balloon twist.
And before you do a basic balloon twist, you
always pinch first
and then do the twisting. So that's an
important step.
And also, after you make your balloon twist, it's
important that you always hold the twist.
And then move to the next part of the
balloon and hold it so it doesn't come
undone. So let me show you how to do that.
Let's start again at the nozzle end.
I'm going to make a basic balloon twist of about
an inch.
Now watch my left hand see it has to
move over
and grab here
just like that. If I don't, this comes
undone. It's a very
fundamental part of making balloon swords and balloon animals.
Now we're going to make what's called a
balloon fold twist. We're going to take this and
fold
this in half and one side will be about
this long.
And then we'll twist it into this part
here.
So this is called a balloon fold twist. Watch
what I do. I fold
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something about that long. Notice that I'm
holding it here. Now i'm going to take
this
here and here and
twist them together. So remember, I pinch
here
and twist.
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You end up with something like this.
Now we're going to, at this point, we've
made what's called a
lock twist and so it means you don't
have to hold on to it anymore. The
balloon just stays in place.
Now we're going to make five small basic balloon
twists to match this basic balloon twist.
So i'll make this in rapid succession.
The concept is just the same. You
pinch the balloon and then you twist the balloon. So we're just
making these five small
little basic balloon twist balls. So here we go.
So I'm going to
twist a balloon pinch twist.
Remember to move over and hold the balloon once
again.
pinch and twist the balloon.
Hold the balloon and pinch and twist the balloon.
Move over. pinch and twist the balloon.
One more time.
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And you'll notice that at the end of our
balloon,
the air came all the way to the end of
our balloon making it nice and even, just
what we want.
Now by holding these
two here, you have something that looks
like
this. And all you're going to do is you
have a loop over here
you're going to place the end over here
and through the loop. So let's do that.
And there you have your saber
sword or pirate sword balloon. Now you have two
different looks for this pirate balloon sword.
You can leave it like this so it looks
like this.
Or, if you like, this is kind of cool.
You can actually bend it the other way
and see how that gives you a different
kind of pirate balloon sword
look. So it's up to you as to what you would
like. One other variation on this sword
is
this first basic balloon twist here. You can turn
this into a balloon
pinch twist. You can always give it out
just as is
but you can turn this into a balloon pinch twist
which might give you a more
finished look without the nozzle here.
But this is something
that the kids will enjoy and that is a
pirate or deluxe saber balloon sword.
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balloon
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