Balloon Twisting a Motorcycle: Part 1

Video Transcript

"We're going to make a motorcycle, how cool is that? I'm going to start with the wheel of the motorcycle and part of the handlebar. So I'm taking my 260 and just making a V-shape. Now this is the tricky bit, I'm going to start by wrapping the other one around that V. So, here it goes. Here comes the first wrap. I'm going to hold my thumb in place while I twist and wrap the rest of the balloon around and around. That's the first wrap. And I'm going to pull my thumb out. My hand is then free to carry on wrapping it around. Now we want this wheel to be nice and tight. So hold it very tightly or you might want to actually hold it against your body as you're wrapping it around that way the balloon is less likely to slip out of position. I'm making another wrap. You can see that I'm actually using my body to guide the balloon around. When you get to the end of the balloon to the round end of it, we're going to just twist the black one a couple of times. You see there's still a little bit of space, I'm just going to push it together and pull the black one forward a little bit and there you got the basic wheel of the motorcycle. I'm going to fit that into the frame of the bike by just gently sliding it into place. So we've got the frame, we've got the wheel and in the next part we're just going to transform all of this into a motorcycle right in front of your very eyes."