Making Eyes for Balloon Duck

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Dan McLellan with Expert Village. We're now going to talk about how to make a complex balloon animal duck. This is my own creation here and we've already got a yellow base body for the duck. And what we're going to now do is add on some eyes and a stomach with a white balloon. Now you can use this same concept for a number of creations. You may have noticed that cartoon characters have become very popular now in making balloons and these are the same concept to create that really three dimensional look that gives so much more life to balloons and the eyes have a big part of it. So let's blow up a white balloon. And once again, I'm not blowing it up all the way, I'm going to let some air out, tie it up. Now, I have this end segment here where the lip of the balloon, where its tied off and I have this segment here where the face and the wings of the duck some together and I'm going to connect the white balloon in here in the center by simply just putting this in and now if I take this and I tie a knot, the white balloon is now connected to the yellow balloon. That's called a tie-in there. Now I'm going to fold the white balloon up along one of the sides of the face and I'm just going pinch it in to this top part where I did the ear tie in the previous segment and twist and that'll become one of the eyes. I'll then fold this down and I've actually the two yellow segments, the first eye and this now second eye for four segments that I'm going to pull together and twist and there's the eyes of the duck. And then I'm going to take the stomach by folding down and folding this tail part in and locking it. And now I have the eyes the stomach of the duck. Unfortunately now I have long section of the balloon that I don't need at all, so what I'm going to do is pinch the balloon together here and I'm actually going to just bite this segment off and let it go. If you're uncomfortable with using your teeth to bite it off, you can also use a paper opening maybe to connect to a ribbon around you wear it on your chest and that you use that to cut the balloon. I'm just used to biting them, I'm old school, I've been doing it for a long time. Now I still have this remaining part of the balloon, you don't want the rest of it to deflate, so once again, I'm going to tie this off and now we've got two balloons connected to each other. We got the yellow balloon, which created the base of the duck and now the white balloon for the eyes and the body. Next we're going to add its beak and its feet."