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Balloon artist Ori Livney, shows how to create a balloon poodle.

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(Music playing) Hi welcome back. What we are going to do now is slightly more advanced but yet using basic techniques balloon creations. What we are going to do is the classic balloon dog. Everybody loves the balloon dog. It is the first thing you think about when you see or hear about balloon twisting. You are going to learn the very, very best balloon I use out of one balloon. Now, to do that I use Qualatex mocha brown 260, now, you inflate it. I think it is about maybe this big. You tie off the balloon. Now, you want to make sure that you have enough room because the bubbles are really small. If you want to make a really cute puppy, you want to make sure the bubbles are even and precise. Now to do that, you need to practice. Do not be afraid just inflate the balloon and practice bubbles. You can watch the technique video which is the first one to learn how to do the bubbles. What we are going to do now, we are going to do series of five bubbles. The first one about an inch really small, second one about the same length, third one about twice as big, fourth one again about half an inch, inch. And the fifth one, is about exactly, it should be exactly the same length as the third bubble. That will create the head. Now, to lock the bubbles like we did earlier. We are going to roll and twist like loop twist the last three bubbles. After you do that, you want to take the first bubble and tuck that in with your thumbs, holding and rolling the two parts of the head as you squeeze that in. Now, make sure you do not squeeze it all the way, because you want the balloon to edge the two bubbles between the two parts of the head. This will create a really cute puppy poodle head. Now what I am going to do next is series of five bubbles, the small one which is about half an inch maybe and four bubbles. Now, the size of the bubbles will determine the look that you want for the legs. I am using a series of bubbles that are almost the same size but I make the second and the fifth bubble a bit larger and make the third and fourth bubble the same size as the head bubble. After you do that, you lock last four bubbles to create the front feet. Now, what you want to do next is create another series of five bubbles for the belly and the other four feet. Exactly the same, small balloon, small bubble, medium, small, small, and last one is again medium. Now, as you notice, I am running out of balloon which is okay, because that determines if I am going to have a short tail or long tail I can make bigger bubbles, smaller bubbles. You have to really experiment and see what is comfortable for you. But, you have to make sure that you do not run of air for the last bubble, because if it is just straight balloons, you will not hold the last twist. This bubble is essential to have nice structure. This is the balloon poodle. Now, everybody likes the kind of poodle tail. To do the poodle’s tail the icky way to put it in your mouth and suck it. But, that is very dangerous because I see a lot of kids putting the balloons in their mouth and that is very dangerous because if the choking hazard. So make sure, if you are around kids if you twist balloon for kids, try to avoid putting the balloons in your mouth. To do it in a very elegant way without putting the balloon in your mouth, you just stretch the very end tip of the balloon give it a nice stretch that weakens the balloon and will allow the air to jump this part and go straight to this part. Now, when you hold the last bubble, you squeeze it and then the air will go out to the end and inflate the tip. Now, as you can see, I am kind of pushing it towards the end that will fix the bubble there and I will have to make sure that they have the small bubble here that will fix the legs. If I put all the air in the tail, what will happen, this will unravel and we do not want that. So, you have to make sure that the air is equally divided between the two bubbles. And that is the balloon poodle.