How To Make Balloon Animals - Some Background Information

The making of balloon animals and other shapes hasto practice both the twisting and the 'patter' or story
been around for many decades. The art is calledtelling between the twister and his audience. The
'balloon twisting' and is fairly self explanatory. Thebetter this patter is the better the demonstration,
artist twists the balloons into many wonderful andaudience participation and enjoyment of all.
different shapes, many of them animals. The balloonsIn earlier years balloon twisters inflated their balloons
used are usually latex and the most popular is theby mouth though this is rarely done now. It takes a
260 - so called because it inflates to 2 inches by 60good set of lungs to be able to blow up balloons
inches and is a good size for many shapes.over a 4 or 5 hour period. Also in today's society,
Most balloon twisters start of learning how to makemany people are wary of taking something that has
one balloon shapes and need to spend many hoursbeen in someone else's mouth. Most balloon twisters
practicing the various skills such as tying the balloonnow use some sort of pump which can be a hand
one-handed, making balloons within balloons andpump, electric, battery or a compressed air tank.
holding the twists while making other twists thenHelium is not suitable for twisting as the balloons used
twisting them all together. Once proficiency has beenare too porous and the designs are too heavy. Apart
gained with making a variety of one balloon shapesfrom that, children especially want to hold their
or animals, more skill can be gained by learning howballoon animal or shape close and don't want the risk
to make shapes with two or more balloons. Theof losing it. Children of all ages as well as adults love
types of shapes is only limited by the twister'sballoon animals and shapes or twisting.
imagination and the amount of time he has available