Take a 260 balloon and inflate it almost all the way.
Burp it (let a little air out), and tie it.
Now you're going to create a twist out of your balloon.
Fold it in half. You want it fairly full so it has a lot of flex to it because this
will play into your bow and arrow. Find the midpoint. Do a twist there,
And now let's form two small pinch twists here.
So we're going to make a basic twist and turn that into a pinch twist.
Small basic twist. Fold. Pull this up. Notice that I'm holding here. Pull this up and twist.
Other side. Basic twist. You're going to repeat and turn this
into a pinch twist.
Now we're going to take these two balloons and twist them together. The key is my thumb
is here and my hand is here, underneath. And that's how I catch the balloon
and twist it. Hold these two ends together here. Here we go.
See how i'm using the fingers here and the thumb here? Twist.
Twist them together at the top.
You have your twist. Now we're ready to add a string to this balloon. You don't
inflate for your string. Just twist this into between these two basic twists here.
Pull twist this and here into here.
And you have your bow. Let's put together your arrow. You just need a single balloon
and you could put a pinch twist back here if you like for personal preference. It's up to you.
Sometimes the two pinch twists though will get caught in the string, so keep that in mind. You
have to experiment. Now i just inflated it to about four inches from the end. You can
inflate it all the way but it becomes a really long arrow and a little unwieldy. So I like to
keep it a little shorter on the arrow. And you're ready to play around and notice that it's not
straight so just kind of bend the balloon to make sure it's as straight as possible. Now to fire.
Above the arrow you just take the balloon, grab it on both ends here and place it against the string.
Fire.