Loop Twist Techniques Used to Make Balloon Animals

Video Transcript

" Hi everybody! This is Malik, the magic guy with expertvillage.com. Now that you have learned basically how to twist the balloon, we are going to learn some of the twists that will hold it together. So the first one is called the loop twist or fold twist. There is two ways to do it and I am going to show you both of them Now you are going to take a balloon with some room at the end because right now we are just going to learn how to do a basic twist. You are going to hold it in whatever hand you need to. If you’ve watched the basic twisting, then you will know that. You are going to start by twisting here. Okay, this is one way to do it. Then you are going to twist a little further down and hold those together like that. Then you can fold that in half and you twist the two ends of it together like this. That makes a loop in the balloon, like that. This can be a pair of ears on a dog. We can put two of these together and we will talk about that later and make 2 loopy ears. You can also make a fold twist or a loop twist just by folding the balloon and then squeezing and twisting like this. So you should practice whichever one of those makes it more comfortable for you and you can go along and actually make these at different spots in the balloon. Like if you make a loop twist further down like this. You make another loop twist, you can fold here and make another loop twist and that actually makes a very basic dog just out of loop twists. So we will be talking more about different ways to twist a balloon a little later. "