Types of Balloons Used For Balloon Modeling

Series Summary

Balloon modeling is the art of twisting and shaping balloons into figures. Although animals are the most common there are other things such as hats, flowers and boats that are possible as well. For a talented “Twister” almost anything is possible to make. By twisting, bending and molding the balloons they are able to manipulate them into almost any shape. Today most Twisters use a pump or tank to inflate their balloons instead of their lungs because they make so many figures in one sitting. Some, however, still prefer the old fashioned way.

In this free video series our expert “Twister” will show you many of the most popular balloon models today and walk you step by step through the making of each. After this series you'll be able to entertain any party with these clever and artistic figures. These are not just animals either. Make a flower for your significant other or a teddy bear for your daughter. Whatever you model you'll surely have a blast doing it! It's not every day you get a balloon butterfly.

Video Transcript

"Hi, everybody Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com. More on balloons, now we’re going to get into some more intermediate type stuff combining different balloons, I’m going to show you some of the different kinds by now you should of watched all the basic stuff and you should have a mountain of balloon animals in your house just like we do here on the set, it’s going to be great. So there’s a few different kinds of balloons that you can use that they make that are different shapes, this is one called a geo this is what it looks like without any air in it, you can use these for mostly for flowers I actually don’t use a lot of these but you should definitely try them out, I’ll show you how to make a flower with this later on and you can certainly decide what the best choice is for you. A 6 inch round or a 5 inch round is just a basic round balloon like what you may of seen as a kid only smaller and these are good for hats, sometimes you can draw things on these and make faces but these are nice for just adding on, they also make 5 inch rounds with imprints so you can get alien faces, you can get smiley faces, they have some with eyeballs on them, you can get them with all different prints on them from a balloon supplier they make probably 30 or 40 different ones. This is a 6 inch heart balloon, this is a heart shape they make these in a 12 inch as well, the 6 inch hearts are nice for hats, you can put this on like wand with a couple of loop twist and give it to a kid to wave around, this is the heart uninflated, later on when you get into some more advanced twisting there’s other things to do with these like making eyes for characters out of them and that kind of thing. One that we’re going to use a lot this is a 321 balloon because it’s 3 inches wide and 20 inches long, it’s got a black tip on it this is what it looks like uninflated, these come in five different colors yellow, orange, there’s a pink, a red, a white, the white one sometimes have red tips on them I think it’s just a question of what you get. There’s another really skinny balloon called a 160, that’s one inch wide and 60 inches long those are good for dog leashes and stuff like that and then there’s a 350 which is this width and 50 inches long and that’s good for making some of the larger multi balloon characters that we probably won’t be getting into but later on you’ll come across stuff with 350. So that’s a few different kinds of balloons and we’ll get in more of how to use them."