Making Swans With Balloons

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Brandon Nowasky and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am going to show you more about balloon animals. In this clip, we are going to make a swan. Now for the swan you want to blow the balloon up and leave a larger portion of the balloon empty at the end here. This is going to be the beak of the swan. I am going to start at the knot end again. This time I am going to do something a little bit different than the way I have done before. What you are going to make is a loop. Instead of locking the balloon with another part of the balloon, you are going to lock it with a knot. To do this just pull the knot end out and twist it around the balloon like so, you are going to want to do a couple of extra twist because it is not as stable as a normal lock and twist. The next part is going to be a slightly larger loop. Lock at the same place and you are going to take a smaller loop and push it through the larger loop just like this and roll it in. Then on the other side you are going to take what is going to be the neck and head of the swan. You can kind of straighten it out, fill this up a little bit, just rotate it back so that it is locked in this area here and then with your hand you are going to hold it in place, pull on this and bring it down. You are going to do this a little bit and this is going to help shape the neck. You want to rotate the neck around, kind of push the air out and into that empty space to help shape the neck that is being shaped and have yourself swan."