Combining Multiple Balloons to Make Characters

Series Summary

Making balloon animals is a fun way to entertain kids of all ages. Balloon animals are made from inflated tubular balloons which are generally more elastic and stretchy than other balloons, and are tied, twisted and sculpted into various animal shapes. Many techniques are employed by balloon twisters, including weaving multiple balloons together to create more complicated forms. This video series will focus on multiple balloon modeling and some intermediate level animal shapes that can be formed using several balloons.

In these free videos you’ll learn how to make a variety of balloon animals and characters from an expert balloon artist. Malik Haddadi demonstrates techniques for making a clown, penguin, alien, duck, rabbit, eyeball creature and more. It’s fairly easy to learn and hours of fun for kids at birthday parties.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

" Hi Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com. So now I've taken you through some basic and some intermediate twisting techniques. I've shown you all the basic twists that you need. I'm going to teach a new technique called snapping which is going to help you make some pieces. Stuff like this when you just need a little section of the balloon. I'm going to show you some of the more advance combining techniques and how to make pieces, so you can get some of the building blocks to build cartoon characters. I'm going to show you a body for balloons like this; I'm going to show you how to make a separate body with segment head, arms, and legs. Show you how to do some elbows. Show you how to do some knees. So this would be some of the stuff you need to start getting into some of the bigger characters. The kids you have seen how to put eyes on things that are different color. How to do animals that have a lot of different colors going on we are going to do a penguin, a clown there are going to be all kinds of fun stuff that involves all the techniques I have showed you all the pieces I've had showed you, all the pieces I've showed you. Way to put different balloons together and this would be what you need to really start getting into the big sensational fun stuff that you have seen."