hi everyone Melanie here from Balloon Artworks and today i'm going to be showing you how to make
a balloon monkey this is another easy balloon animal to make and we're using just one 260
modeling balloon i've inflated mine to a tale of perhaps about four fingers and the balloon is nice
and soft so for your monkey just make a small loop of about three fingers or so so if you've made
daisy flowers you're going to know this technique so just grasp hold of that knot and nozzle
and twist that around okay and pass the knot and nozzle through the center of that loop that's just
going to help ensure that that doesn't come undone and we're going to make another loop to match this
okay so very close close is good enough okay so you've got your two loops there
and then we're going to make a third loop that is just very slightly bigger than the first two okay
and then twist
okay so that's what you've got give your balloon a bit of a squeeze
and next we're going to be making a bubble of about three inches or so okay so just
twist that off keep hold of this bubble as you make the next bubble which is just going to be
a small bubble of a couple of fingers so keep hold of both ends of the balloon otherwise
everything will come undone bend the balloon over and we're going to pinch twist this bubble okay
and what we're going to do we're going to grasp this bubble firmly pull it upwards and as we pull
it upwards we're going to twist it round okay so pull it up and twist around and twist it around
a few times okay so we're going to do that again we're going to make another small bubble but give
your balloon a squeeze and you'll see that now you're pretty much fully inflated okay so twist
off another bubble of a couple of fingers and then we're going to pinch twist this so pull it up pull
the bubble upwards and twist it around a few times okay so this is what you've got at the moment okay
and what we want to do with this i'm just going to stretch this part of the balloon that's just
going to soften it slightly and also just make it very slightly longer okay next we can make
a loop so this loop wants to be almost as tall as the monkey to the top of the ears okay and then we
can just twist off that loop and then what i'm also going to do is just wrap this long part of
the balloon just around those pinch twists that's just going to help secure everything and then put
your hand through the center of this loop and what we're going to do we're going to push this part of
the balloon through and suddenly this jumble of loots will start to look like a monkey okay i put
my hand through and i'm just pulling that through okay and that's going to hunch everything over
okay so that's pressure fitted there with the tail we can just give that a bit of
shaping so just give it a bit of a widdle here and that's going to just put a bit of a kink
into the monkey's tail and we can angle that uh wherever we want okay and whilst you're here i'd
be really grateful if you'd pop that like button for me for the face i'm using a black sharpie
pen with a fine point and i'm just going to draw a couple of little eyes so i start on the left
if you're right-handed it's always a good idea to start on the left so you don't cross
over your drawing and rub anything out so two little eyes and then a big cheeky grin
and then you've got a really easy one balloon monkey