Shaping Techniques for Balloon Animals

Video Transcript

" Hi everybody Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com. Now I want to tell you about shaping and forming balloons. Now you can put some curves into balloons and I will give you some examples for instance we did a elephant before and when made the elephant head what we did was two fold twists. Now this is going to be the elephant's trunk and we want a little bit of a curve. So what we can do is just give it a little squeeze like this. If you do this gently the curve would stay. Now you can do another technique we did this one we use the other end we did this with a swan. Where you roll this you can roll this up. Now it helps if you kind of rub your hands gently on the outside of the balloon. You can breath on it a little bit that would give this a little bit of heat and that would help the curve stay in the balloon. Now once you have done that you can do some other kinds of shaping. For instance we are going to make a heart out of this balloon and this is going to come in handy for one of the next design we are going to do. We are going to take the two ends and tie them together so we have just a regular square knot and that is our loop of balloon. Now we are going to take it like this and roll it just like we did with the swan but we are going to roll both sections so this is a little hard to hold on to but you would get use to it. So it almost looks like a snail if that would stay. Then we are going to unroll it and then flip it open this way and that is going to make a heart shape and if you give this a little squeeze here and a little rub with your hand, warm it up a little bit we will give you a heart that would keep its shape. Just like that. So that is forming and shaping."