Push Tie for Balloon Animals

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Dan McLellan with Expert Village. And now we're going to talk about the use of a push or full tie in balloon sculpting and how that benefits you in saving a little bit of time. We're going to use the top arms of a basic teddy bear to show an example of why this will save time. So this is the result we're going to get is the top arms here, and I'll show you the two processes. First by doing just the basic bubble twist technique, by doing three bubbles, and I'll show you another way to do it in only two bubbles and that's were you're going to save some time with the push tie. So let's look at the three bubble technique. I'm going to do one that's actually going to create the neck of the balloon right below the head there, and then I'm going to do an inch bubble and twist this around two or three times there, fold it together, and twist and that's going to be one of the arms. And then I'm going to take another inch or so and I'm going to twist that off, fold that down and twist and that creates the result in three moves. However, I'm going to show you how you can now do this in two moves and save yourself a little time with the full tie. Once again, we're going to start off by twisting off a little bit of a neck there, about a half inch there, so before I had done two one inch bubbles, this time I'm going to do one two inch bubbles, maybe three inch to give it a little more length in those arms. And I'm going to fold it in half, there and twist it together, and this would be a push tie here as I'm just going to take the center of that and push it into the segment that was created by the neck. And the result is basically the same here. I've done the same move in one less move. It looks basically the same, and this is with two bubbles and this is with three because I used a push tie instead."