How to Make Balloon Flower

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Dan McLellan and I'm with Expert Village. Now we're going to learn how to make a small one balloon flower and we're going to learn first by learning how to incorporate an apple tie into balloon twisting. I'm going to first start by inflating the balloon. Once again I'm leaving quite a bit of area that's uninflated so I have area to work. I'm tying the balloon off and I'm going to start by doing an apple tie. Now in order to do an apple tie I'm going to take my right index finger and I'm going to stick it inside of the balloon. And then with my thumb and my index finger on my left hand I'm going to grab hold of the lip of the balloon which is stuffed up inside of it and pull my right finger out. Now, I'm going to take my right hand and simple twist the balloon and it'll remain a bubble on top. This is called an apple bubble because it kind of looks like an apple if it was red there. Now I'm going to continue on with the flower. I'm going to twist off two one inch bubbles. Fold those together and twist those together. Now, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of what we do is repetition so I'm going to take this step that I just did and do it two more times. So I'm doing the same thing three times in a row. Two one inch bubbles. Twist them together. Two one inch bubbles. Twist those together. And when I'm done I've got a basic simple flower."