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welcome to my balloon twisting for
beginners series
where i teach you how to twist balloons
like a pro
hi i'm melanie from balloon artworks in
derbyshire
in the uk today i'm going to be showing
you how to make a butterfly
using just one 260 balloon there are
some designs
where you might need your balloon to be
just a little bit longer
than usual so these two sixties as i've
said in earlier lessons
are called 260 because they when they're
inflated
they are two inches diameter
approximately and approximately 60
inches
long but sometimes you need just a
little bit of extra length and there are
a couple of ways
you can do that so you can achieve that
and the first one
is to just pinch hold of the tip tipping
and with your thumb and forefinger just
drag
that balloon through your thumb and
forefinger
okay and what's that's doing you're
stretching
the latex so these balloons are made out
of 100
latex if you're using the quality
excellent the centex brands that i've
recommended
these balloons are 100 natural latex
rubber
and so it's like a rubber band and you
can stretch it
a little bit and for this one balloon
butterfly
i recommend you stretch the balloon just
that little bit
so we want to inflate to a four finger
tail
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okay so that was seven strokes
okay now what i'm not going to do i'm
just going to put a twist in that to
trap the air
so what i've said to you before is um
let some of the air out to soften the
balloon here we're going to soften the
balloon
in a slightly different way today so i
want you to tie
a knot as you would normally
but don't pull it tight so be very
gentle
when you finish that knot off
and that gives you what we call a soft
knot
so what you can actually do is take hold
of that knot
and roll that soft knot along the end
so you've now got just that little bit
of extra balloon
you can squeeze your balloon here and
you get just that little bit of extra
the other way we can make our balloons a
little bit longer
is to give our balloons a bit of a
squeeze here
and stretch the balloon once it's
inflated
okay so we're just
running our hands of balloon through our
hands and that's just stretching the
balloon
okay so first of all twist off
a small bubble of approximately two
fingers in size
and then i want you to make a large
loop
and then take that small bubble and just
pass it through the center
of that loop and then
split your balloon in half so just fold
your balloon over
pinch the green at the end here hold on
to it
and then just rotate that top
bubble and that splits
that large loop in half
and then push these two sides together
and twist and we can take that bubble
and just wrap it round and that's just
going to lock
everything together so those aren't
going to come undone
now and then i want you to make
another loop so i want you to leave
yourselves with a little
bubble here of about an inch and a half
or so
and then wrap twist
that loop together okay so you've got
this little bubble poking out here
and then we want to take this loop
fold it in half and we're going to do
the same thing that we did here
split it in half so pinch hold of it
and twist just rotate that top bubble
and that slits the bubble in half
push the two sides together and then you
can get hold of everything
and just twist it all together
just position your bubbles
so we want to just move these
two loops to the side
we want to position these two loops this
way
okay and on mine
i need this bubble to be at the bottom
and this one to be at the top
so i just need to move them around
okay i hope you've enjoyed this tutorial
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