Using the Banana Fold Technique to Make Balloon Animals

Video Transcript

" Hi Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com. Now I'm going to show how to take a banana fold and make a character out of it. What you want to do is we review the banana fold. Just start with a loop. You are going to twist it in half. Twist it in half again. Feed this half in here. Twist these two pieces together so you have this sort of setup. This is going to make the torso of our creation. Now we are going to make a set of the same arms that we have been doing just with the fold twist. Now you can do this with a lock twist. You can do more detail hands if you want to do a chain of bubbles. This time we are not going to put the other fold twist here we are just going to keep them just like this. So we feed this through here. Just like this. That is going to give us some long arms. This is nice for making a very cartoonish character cause long arms and long legs mean more cartoonish. For the feet we make two fold twist feet. Just like this. Fold this in half that makes our arms and legs. All we do is take our head. Now you can do this in green for a alien. I'm doing it yellow the smiley face guy. But anytime you need to put a five inch round that is nice alternative you can use it for other heads as well. That makes a nice bigger version of the smiley guy or the alien."