Basics of Balloon Hat Construction

Series Summary

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

In these free videos you’ll learn how to make balloon hats from an expert balloon artist. Malik Haddadi demonstrates techniques for basic balloon hat construction, and how to make variations like a crown, jester hat, cowboy hat, baseball cap, and how to make characters like an alien, bunny, a flower and more. The process is easy to learn and hours of fun for kids at birthday parties.

Video Transcript

" Hi everybody Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com and this is going to be part of the intermediate section on balloons. We are going to do some hats. Theres all kinds of different hats that you can make. One of the cool things about hats is you can add on to basic stuff that we did already. Like this is the basic helmet and I'm going to show you how to do this again; add some more stuff on to it. Stuff like this this was the head setter you know raccoon hat if you want. You can add on all kinds of round balloons you know we talked about how to do that. Hats are great way to get laughs cause there are few things funnier then someone walking around with balloons on there head. Most of the hats are going to be pretty easy to figure out how much air you need cause most of them you need air all the way in the balloon. So theres all kinds of variations. I'm going show you fun way to add on to the basic we did already. Add some color and they are real easy to make them nice and visual and big and applying without whole ton of effort. So hats are fun and stick around we do some fun stuff with them."