Creating a Balloon Flower

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dan McLellen, I'm with Expert Village. Now we're going to talk about how to take basic simple balloons and combine them together to create a complex balloon. In our previous segment, we already combined a heart with a teddy bear. We are now going to combine a small flower and a basic hat with a heart in the teddy bear and put those all together. Starting with the small flower, I'm going to inflate a balloon, leaving quite a bit uninflated so as I twist the balloon my bubbles, I'm putting the air into the empty part of the balloon, tie the balloon off, do an apple tie by sticking my finger inside the balloon and grabbing hold of the part that I put in there. Pull my finger out and then twist the remainder of the balloon and the apple tie should stay like this. I'm going to continue on by doing two approximately one inch bubbles. Always holding on to the end of the balloon so it doesn't come apart. Then take those two together, fold them next to each other and twist and I'm going to repeat that step two more time. There is your basic flower. I can combine that by putting a flower inside the teddy bear and now I've got a heart with a teddy bear holding a small flower."