Starting a Balloon Dog

Video Transcript

"Today, we're going to make a basic balloon dog. Learning about balloon animals is kind of fun but you often forget what follows what. So, the idea is to start with the tip of the animal, which is the nose, followed by his ears, the neck, the front legs, the body, the back legs and finally, of course the little puppy's tail. So if you forget that's the best way of remembering. We're going to start with a pinch twist. You pinch the balloon and you twist it three times. You hold the balloon, if you're right handed, you hold the balloon with your left hand and do all the work with your right hand. So, we're going to pinch it with the right hand and twist. We do it three times, one, two, three. This helps to save from coming undone. These are called bubbles, and for the little ear, we do a smaller bubble. You're going to pinch the balloon and twist it. Pinch, one, two, three and again, pinch and twist, one, two, three. These are the little bubbles I was telling you about. The nose is a little bit bigger than the ears. This is the fun part. This is called a lock twist. We lock the whole creation into place. Pull apart. You can see that little bit of rubber right there and we twist it into it. We twist it into itself, one, two, three. That holds the whole face in place."