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You're going to need
two balloons for your flower balloon bracelet.
First you're going to need a green balloon for your flower's stem.
It really isn't crucial how much you inflate
this one because you're only going to be
using a very small portion
and the rest of the balloon will form the
balloon bracelet.
The second balloon will form the petals of the flower.
And I've inflated it pretty much all the
way and then I've kind of uninflated it
just a little bit here because you want
this balloon to be soft. You don't want
it to be
real firm because that's going to play a
role in
the making of the petals of the flower which is a
rather advanced technique. Let me show
you how to do that.
Now notice that I did leave uninflated
end but what i've tried to do
is distribute the air
pretty evenly throughout the balloon. And
again, it's
fairly soft. Now we're going to tie
the tip here to the balloon's nozzle.
Your balloon here now forms a loop. Now
you're going to find the balloon's midpoint which
is right about here.
Try to make sure the air is evenly
distributed
through the balloon.
You pretty much have a circle
that's
broken into two twists here.
Now what you're going to do is fold the balloon loop
into kind of an "s"
shape.
Mark where the bends are and I like
to
separate (twist) this into thirds,
like this sausages.
Fold them together.
all of the twists go on each side - twists
there.
And now
we're going to fold it like this
and you form the petals. Now adjust.
You've made petals for your flower balloon. Now you're ready to add
your
stem and bracelet.
Take your second balloon and make a basic
twist.
Now if you like you can leave it a basic
twist but I think it looks better when it's
a pinch twist so we're going to take the
nozzle
and we're going to fold it in. And the
nozzle is going to be twisted into here.
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There we have a
stem and all you do is take this and
place it in the middle of the flower
here.
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With a flower balloon, now we have to make the bracelet.
This is the easy part.
Take the end of your green balloon and
you're going to have this here.
We're gonna take some scissors. Take your
scissors and you're going to clip it here.
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Let it deflate.
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Now all you do is decide how big the
bracelet should be.
So you're just forming a loop and then
wrapping this around the pedals of the flower balloon.
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And there you have a balloon flower
bracelet. Just remember that this is like a
rubber band that just goes around the
wrist.
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