Hi everyone Melanie here from Balloon Artworks and today i'm going to be showing you
how to make another really easy balloon animal we're going to be making a balloon giraffe using
just one 260 modelling balloon so you've got your inflated 260 with a two to three finger tail and
give your balloon a squeeze and then we want to twist off a bubble of about three fingers or so
followed by a small bubble of a couple of fingers be sure to keep hold of this
first bubble for the moment because if you let it go everything will unravel
fold that first bubble over and we're going to pinch twist this smaller bubble and we're
going to do that we're going to take hold of the bubble we're going to pull it upwards and then
we're going to twist round okay so we pull it upwards and we twist it around a few times okay
there you go so that's what you've got and twist off another smallish bubble of a couple of fingers
and we're going to pinch twist this as well so again just bend your balloon over take
if this bubble should be nice and soft so you need to pull it upwards and twist it round so we're
pulling upwards and twisting around just around a few times okay so you've got the ears and the
giraffe's face okay so i've got about a one finger tail now so i'm going to give my balloon a squeeze
and i want a nice long neck for my giraffe of maybe nine inches or so twist that around
okay and then twist off a bubble that is perhaps four inches or so so again make sure that you're
holding on to this because if you let go all the bubbles will unravel and then we want to
make another bubble to match this one so bend your balloon over to measure approximately
the length of balloon that you need the length of bubble that you need bring the two together and
then wrap them together okay what you can do if you find when you've made this design a few times
if you find that children are playing with the design and it's unraveling then what you can do is
to prevent that happening you can pass that bubble through and that will just lock those in position
so if the children are waving it around once you've made the design that's not going to come
undone okay and then twist off a bubble that is maybe four inches or so three four inches
and then make another bubble to match these okay so twist off perhaps about
three four inches okay and then we want to make another bubble to match this one so again
keep hold of this balloon so things don't unravel bend your balloon over and
at this point i'm just going to use one motion to wrap everything together okay
and again if you want to ensure that these back legs don't come undone
you can just take this little tail and pass it
through the center of those and again that's going to lock everything in position okay and
one thing i like to do is i just like to finish off the giraffe's face a little differently to
some of the other designs you might see and i just take hold of that little knot and nozzle
and i pull it backwards into the ears okay so take hold of it and pull it back into the ears
and then wrap that nozzle around the ears a couple of times and then just let's rearrange everything
and that just rounds off the giraffe's face a little more be sure to pop that like button
whilst you're here so now you can go wild with a brown sharpie if you've got the tie
just making some markings giraffe markings and squiggles
so there's your completed balloon giraffe and i'll see you again in the next video