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With the cat balloon, it's important that you start off on the
right foot here
with the inflation of the balloon. This
makes this balloon animal quite different from
the others. Now
normally, when you inflate a balloon, you
would just
insert the nozzle and inflate. But here, you
want an extra long nozzle.
So I'm going to scrunch the balloon nozzle
down a little bit and
place the nozzle in a little deeper and
then inflate. And it'll give you an extra
long nozzle.
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Inflate to about five inches from the
end
and you'll notice that I have an extra long
nozzle here and tie the knot so it's as
close
to the balloon as possible. And let me
just give the balloon a little
burp there.
Tie it.
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Again, make sure the knot is as close to
the balloon here and not
towards the end of the nozzle.
Now let's begin with our cat balloon animal.
We're going to make a basic twist of
about
three inches.
Remember to move your hands over and
hold. And now we're going to match
this one.
Fold. Hold.
Now take your nozzle and wrap it around
to make
a lock twist and remember to try and
use the nozzle here at the base so you
keep as much length of nozzle as
possible.
It helps to keep this together
if you take the nozzle and feed it
through the center.
And that's a good start to our cat balloon animal.
Now we're going to make two basic twists
for ears.
Now here's what makes this cat balloon
different from other balloon animals. We're going
to take this twist here
and we're just going to embed it
into here. Now it won't actually stay
so you'll have to hold it, but here's the
idea,
and that gives us something of a cat's
face.
But notice that the neck is offset
and so that's the reason why we have to
bring this to the center and that's
where our extra long nozzle is going to
come into play. So we're going to take
this
neck and shift it this way as much as we
can towards the center.
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Now we're going to wrap the nozzle
around it to keep it in place.
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And tuck the nozzle in.
We've got a cat face and now we're going to make a
small neck.
From this point you're essentially making a
dog body but I like to do
a little extra detail with the paws. I
think it it adds to the cute factor here.
So we're just going to make a small leg
about two inches.
Two small circles or spheres.
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Lock twist.
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Make the body. Repeat with matching legs.
Add a twist to the tail.
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And there you have a cat balloon animal.
Take out your markers and add
some personality to your cat balloon animal.
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