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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. An easy thing is to invest in a felt tip marker and you can do is simply on your dog on your swans on your ducks is you draw little face side you can draw some eyes simple eyes in your ducks you can get frail where some eyebrow and any things just add have walk here to the ducks i was did i was made reviews small bubbles for the kept feet added some space author kept feet so this bubbles before long twist in the middle you can put this on to the tail and then you have a duck with a feet now he is a simple way you can a subject relation to balloon fish you draw the eye of cosine draw the eye in a marker added more carefully to it you can also do you can twist the bubble in the fish right about here so that had a miles now you can add second balloon you can Blowed living a nice size tail we do here this is fishing pole you just look twist a bubbles here just like that video with the elephant with take the end of the fishing pole we tie the round miles of the fish with this give you this i fish on fishing pole.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. A safe bet is the flower. The balloon flower is a great way to win over the heart. You can make a whole bouquet of flowers, you can make a whole bunch of them and put them together. So that is definitely a great one to do. Another thing to do is, also, just like the kids’ parties, you don’t what personal interests are. Maybe they really like horses? You know, so a good thing is to get interacting with them, find out what they really like. Maybe even before the party you could find out what they’re really into. And even if you don’t know how to make that balloon, like, maybe someone really likes princesses, you can learn how to make a crown and like a princess wand. Or, you can learn how to make a balloon that looks like a queen or something. So a good thing to do is to find out beforehand what they like, what they’re into. Do a little research and practice, and you can show up and really wow them. A good way to find work making balloon sculptures at bachelorette parties: you can go to bridle expos, pass out your cards, flyers at these places. Another way is to actually get a booth at a bridal expo. That’s a great way to not only get making balloon sculptures at bachelorette parties, but even at weddings in general. At the receptions, a lot of times they have kids, they want to keep them entertained. So those are great ways to find work in that field.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’ll show you how to make a flower. To make the flower you blow up a green balloon all the way. You are going to hold the balloon right here and your going to fold the nozzle point to about the half way point of the balloon and then everything here, you’ll also bring down like so. Now you’re going to pinch and twist the center point here like so. This gives us the first part of the flower. To do the second half, what you’re going to need is another balloon. Now you’re going to blow up this balloon leaving about a 4 inch tail. What we’re going to do is just like the elephant ears we are going to perform a the loop twists. Form a small loop here, pinch and twist. Now to keep that in place, because sometimes it likes to come undone, you bring this nozzle in between the loop like so. That just keeps it in place. Now we’re going to make some more loops about the same size. Loop and twist, loop and twist, loop and twist, and one more, using the rest of the balloon here to keep it, the last one in place. Loop and twist and again you can bring this end, bring it through the loop just to keep it in place. Now, it doesn’t look like much, but once we get it on the other balloon you, you’ll see what I mean. We are going to take this balloon and put it on the end of here. To do that we’re going to take our two fingers, make a 1 inch bubble at the tip of the green balloon and we’re going to put this right in the folds of the red balloon. To do that you very carefully maneuver the other bubbles around it and you bring the red balloon around that green tip to be the petals of the flower. So it’ll look like this. Now to add a little more character to this what you might want to do is we’ll fold this part of the stem here and squeeze it, just a little bit, not too tight, we don’t want to pop it,and then we bring it up so that it will look like the balloon flower.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals.

The balloons we use are called 260s because when they’re inflated they’re about 60 inches long and about two inches wide. Now you want to make sure you get a good quality balloon. Uh, you don’t want to get a balloon that’s made poorly that’s going to pop easily, especially if you’re hired to do this at a party or a public event because you don’t want to be there all day blowing up balloons, having them pop, having to remake them.

So I had an incident where I was down in Florida on vacation and a restaurant randomly wanted to hire me to make balloon animals. So I, I didn’t have my props with me so I went to the local party store and they didn’t have my brand so I bought this other brand. I could tell it was a little iffy but I, I was desperate so I bought it anyway. Well while I was at the gig I was blowing up balloons. Balloons were popping left and right. I kept having to remake balloons because they just weren’t, weren’t the right kind. So definitely, uh, if you’re going to do it, do it right. Uh, invest in a good quality balloon and you’ll be happy you did.

Now when you go to a party store typically you’ll find the balloons that you’re looking for. Um, now when you go to a party store, uh, typically it’s 100 balloons in a bag and it’s all different colors mixed up. Um, but if you’re going to be doing lots of these, uh, performances where you’re going to be making lots of balloons, a good thing to do is you can go online and find a company that you can buy direct and they’ll send you, uh, you can get entire bags of one color balloons. You’ll get 100 red balloons or a bag of 100 brown balloons or 100 purple balloons so you don’t have to pick through the bags and find them. And order them direct you’ll be able to save money a lot of times as well. A lot of times the party stores jack up the prices a lot so a great trick is to, uh, buy them direct in bulk direct from the source.|It would be nice if you could download the audio to transcribe it.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. Like any learned skill, there’s really only two things you really need: practice and patience. Practice, you’ll make the same balloon over and over again, a hundred times. And patience, especially with balloons, because balloons pop. That’s balloons being the balloons, it will happen. I can remember the first time I made my first balloon, it was a balloon dog. And just to make that first twist, it must have taken me five minutes, because I was definitely afraid of balloons. I was actually using making balloons as a way to get over that fear. So that first twist, whew! Finally, I did it, and I was able to finish making the head of the dog. And I was so proud of myself. So, I finished the dog. By the time I was done with the bag, I had made 100 balloon dogs scattered all over my room. I just practiced, practiced, practiced, until I could do it in my sleep. A good balloon sculpture to start with is the basic dog. The dog is a very easy balloon to make. It’s all the same twists, all the same bubbles are the same size, so it’s very easy to gain confidence making that balloon. And once you make the balloon dog, a lot of the other balloons look the same. So just doing little different twists here and there, different size of bubble here, different size there. Then it becomes a totally different balloon. So that’s why starting with a basic dog is a great way to really get started making balloon sculptures.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. Once you have your balloon and you have your pump, all you have to do is to blow it up. Before you blow it up, it’s a good idea to stretch the balloons out. This just makes sure that it has enough flexibility that once it’s blown up, it’s not going to pop.

So, you take the nozzle of the balloon and you place it on the balloon pump. And you just pull back and forth. And it fills up the balloon. Now, it’s important for most balloons to leave some sort of tail at the end. What that does is as we do the different twists and turns, is it allows the balloon to expand so it doesn’t pop. Now, to tie the balloon. You just bring the nozzle end right around your first two fingers. Bring that through the loop and take your fingers out. That puts a nice knot in the balloon.

Now, the basic twist, is the pinch twist. You grab from both sides, you pinch and twist. You twist enough so that it’s not going to come undone right away. And that is the pinch twist. Now, if you’re making multi-bubble balloons, you can hold it against the side of your body and your arm, like so. So that the bubbles stay in place. And again, you do a nice twist, and turn here. So, those are the basic twists.

Now, the next twist is the lock twist. Take some bubbles that you’ve made. Fold them in half, together. And you lock them, like so. So, that ‘s the pinch twist and the lock twist.

The next twist we’re going to learn, is the ear twist. The ear twist – it’s called the ear twist ’cause it kind of looks like an ear once it’s done. What you do is you fold the bubble in half and you’re going to twist it around. You’ll twist it a few times to make sure it doesn’t come undone. And it looks like this. So, this is the ear twist.

The other twist is the loop twist. That’s when you simply loop a section of the balloon over, pinch and twist. And that looks like this. So those are some basic techniques for making some balloon animals.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals.

A lot of people stress that blowing up the balloons by mouth is best because it provides enough warmth in the balloons to twist the balloons so they don’t break as often. However, nowadays, people are very health-conscious. And putting something in your mouth that you’re going to hand away to someone – not a lot of people are keen to that, so a great way to do it is simply getting a hand pump. You can get a hand pump at any store that sells balloons. A nice hand pump is really all you need. They make electrical pumps as well. They make these big pumps you put on the floor. You press down and the balloon pumps up with air. What’s really nice, though, is if you don’t blow it up by mouth, by the end of making a hundred balloons, you’re going to be a lot less tired if you’re using the hand pump. So that’s a great way to blow up balloons for balloon animals.
A nice simple hand pump you can find at a store, this is a Quall latex hand pump and it’s perfectly suited to the balloons’ sculpture, the 2 to 60 balloons, and what’s also nice is that at the end here it has a little cap and you could actually store your balloons inside here. So if you’re just doing a small party you could just throw your balloons in here. The balloons in there is not going to affect the pump at all.

This is a nice simple hand pump. It makes you a lot less tired at the end of the night.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’ve been making balloon animals for many, many years. And there are some things that you probably don’t really think of at first when you’re just starting out. When you’re at a party or especially at a big public event, there will be a whole line of people wanting a balloon. And here you are making your balloons. And maybe you’re having a bad day, balloons are popping left and right, or maybe you feel like you have to be rushed. The thing to remember is that with the balloons you have to be patient. If you rush through a balloon, it’s not going to turn out looking like the dog you wanted it to. So just be patient. If a balloon pops, especially with children around, you want to be sure to pick up the broken pieces right away. You don’t want a kid finding it on the ground and picking it up and putting it in their mouths. For young children about two or under, you might want to be leery about giving a balloon to a child that young. They might be more apt to put it in their mouths, and pop, that’s the last thing you want. So be leery of that. It might be a good idea to make it fun. Yes, it’s already fun watching the balloons being made. So maybe you might want to explain what you’re doing as you’re doing it? Maybe sort of teach them. Say, OK, we make this bubble this way, that bubble that way. They’ll warm up to you more. Another way is to tell them jokes. Maybe you’re making a dog, maybe you have a joke about a dog. You know, or maybe you could ask the kid, if they ask for a tiger. You say, oh, do you have a tiger at home? And sometimes they say yes. You’re like, wow, what a very strange kid! So it’s a great way to interact so it’s not, they’re just watching you or waiting for a balloon, but you’re interacting with them. So it makes it a lot more fun. And the last thing you want to be careful about is a lot of places, especially hospitals and schools, they don’t allow latex balloons in their buildings, because it’s a problem with the allergies to latex. So just be aware before you start bringing balloons unannounced into a school or a hospital. Or, maybe you don’t want to get discouraged if you’re not finding work in schools as a balloon artist. So just be aware that that is a common problem.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. There are many many ways, you can perform at fairs, at festivals, at private parties, at corporate events. When i first started making balloon animals, i would do magic shows and it was an add-on sale. I would do my magic shows, at the end of the show i would stick around for an extra twenty minutes or a half hour making balloon animals for all the kids, so it was an easy way to break in with that. If you want to find work, you could just be starting out, you could go online, research local fairs, local festivals, you can look at sales flyers, see of anyone is having a grand opening. A lot of time they will want to hire people to attract families, so a balloon artist is definitely in demand so that’s a great way to get your foot in the door even just give them a call say ” Hey, I make balloon animals, how about i show up and do that.” and you are shocked. So that’s a great way to do that too and always we should have business cards printed up that has your contact information, that way as you are out there doing it you can hand out card so people can call you afterwards if they are having a party, so definitely if you do a good job you’ll get work after it. Another way having a brochure or a flyer, you can have your pictures on there too, you can post them around town or hand those out as well so that’s a great way to sell yourself as a balloon artist. I found my first job doing magic shows and what i would do is, i remember the first time when i was called to a magic show, i said ” Hey, i also make balloon sculptures.” so after the party, after the show i’ll make a balloon for all the kids and they were like sure. So it was an easy way to make some extra bucks on the magic show too. The kids really, they bought it and the adults loved it too so it was a great way to get started.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. This is a tough one.. Hmm.. a lot of kids like different things and all the kids parties is well they are very much the same; they can all be very different. A good assumption though is that kids are kids and balloons are balloons. So kids are going to be wild and crazy; balloons are going to pop. Aaa, so specially if there are a lot of kids, you give them a balloon, as soon as you give it to them they throw it on the floor and stomp on it. [Laughs] and it pops out. It is a good bet that you will have to remake balloons all over and over again, if you are a nice guy. [Laughs] Of course you will. So so its a good idea in those scenarios to make a basic balloon so that’s it easier to make. You don’t want to make a bicycle, be much more complicated to make over and over again. But that being said, some balloons are more fun than others. Somethings like the swan. The swan, its a very visual balloon, the process of making it. Certain balloons you can make that just look neater than other ones, something like the horse. A lot of girls like the horses and a lot of boys like the tiger. So its very much dependent of what’s going on at the party, you can figure out what balloon is going to work best at that, that situation.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals.

Now I’ll show you how to make a fish.

To make the fish you’re going to blow up the balloon all the way up until the end.
And now you’ll fold the balloon in half like this and you’re going to make a three inch bubble on both ends of the balloon. At the same time you pinch and twist several times so they don’t come apart. Now this makes the very basic fish.

Now to make it more advanced what we can do is add another balloon.
And to do this we’re going to make two small bubbles. Using two fingers, you pinch and twist, and you’re going to do the ear twist. You bring that, fold that bubble in half and you twist it together upon itself.

So now, it looks like this. You do the same size bubble again. Pinch and twist. It’ll do the ear twist again, on this bubble, fold it in half and twist it together.
Now the rest of the balloon we don’t need so we’ll cut the rest of it away with the scissors. And now, we’re going to tie it together so that the rest of the balloon doesn’t lose its air.
We’re going to take this balloon and insert it onto this balloon. Very carefully put it on right about here, and with the rest of the white balloon we’re not going to need it now. So, using the scissors we can cut it away and that gives us our balloon fish.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’m going to show you how to make a giraffe. To do that, you blow up a balloon, leaving about a three inch tail at the end. Now the tail with the nozzle, you’re going to make a three inch bubble. Wrap your hand around, pinch, and twist. Hold it in place, and you’re going to pinch and twist two smaller bubbles, just a little smaller, maybe about two and a half inches. And pinch and twist, like so. Now you’re going to pinch and twist another bubble about the size, so it looks like this. Now we’ll do the lock twist. You take these two bubbles here, bring them together, and lock them together and twist enough so they don’t come apart. This is the head of the giraffe. Now the giraffe has a long neck, so you come about maybe in the middle, and you’re going to twist the bubbles about the same size as the ears. And you pinch and twist. Now we’re going to make the legs. Pinch and twist about the same size as the ears. We’re going to pinch and twist another one. Now we’re going to do the lock twist. Take these two bubbles here, bring them together, lock them together, like so. That gives us the legs of the giraffe. To do the body you make a bubble about the same size as the nose, pinch and twist. Now you’re going to make two more bubbles about the same size as the front legs, pinch and twist. And one more, pinch and twist. Again, holding against your body so the balloons don’t come apart, the bubbles don’t come apart. Now I want to take these two bubbles and do the lock twist, bring them together, pinch and lock. And that’s how you get the giraffe. What’s nice about the giraffe is that by just changing the position of some of the bubbles, you get another balloon. You take the tail and the back legs, turn them upside down. And if you take the head and the ears, you turn them the other way, and you bring the whole balloon down here–and you get, a wiener dog!

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. Now i am going to show you how to make a duck. To make the duck, you blow up the duck leaving up about three inch tail at the end. The tail with a nozzle would make a three inch twist. Measure and pinch, and twist, lock it in place. Now we are going to make a bubble little more than double that size so you can hold it against your body to measure. Three,six, maybe about a seven inch bubble and pinch and twist so it looks like this. Now you are going to do, make a same size bubble. A fast way to do that is to spring it down like this, and pinch and twist, so you have made the same size bubble and locked it in place. Now we would make a bubble about that same size again, pinch and twist, now we would bring this bubble inside of this bubble here, this space in between . To do that you bring it up and pinch them together and bring it through the other side very carefully. So now your balloon will look like this. Now you are going to make a neck about the same size as this little tail. About a three inch bubble, you pinch and twist, and pinch and twist. Now we are going to do the long twist. You take these two bubble here, bring them together, lock them together, twisting them enough time so they stay in place. Now you reposition the neck up here and we get our balloon duck.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’m going to show you how to make an elephant. To make an elephant, you’ll blow up the balloon, leaving about a two and a half or two inch tail at the end. Now first we’re going to make the nose or the trunk. To do that, you’re going to make about twice the nose as the nose of the dog. So you measure here and here, pinch and lock twist here. Now you’re going to make the ears. To do that we’re going to do a loop twist. It’s going to be about the size of the trunk, but instead of the ears like the dog, what you’re going to do is twist it here so it looks like this. Now you’re going to twist it together to give us the first ear, twist it enough so it doesn’t come apart. Now you’re going to do the same thing, twist like so. Again, twisting enough to make sure it doesn’t come apart. This gives us the trunk and the ears of the elephant. Now we’re going to make the neck. The neck we’re going to make nice and small. You can use about two finger, pinch and twist a bubble like so. Now the legs are going to be smaller, maybe about a two inch bubble. One, hold it against your body to keep it in place. And two. Now we’ll do the lock twist. Take these two bubbles, bring them together, and lock them together, twisting enough so they don’t come apart. Now the body, about a three inch bubble. Now you’re going to do two, two inch bubbles. One. Again, holding them in place. And two. Now you’re going to take these two bubbles, bring them together, lock and twist. And that gives us the tail, the legs, the body, and the ears and the trunk of the elephant. Now to get a little more creative with this what you can do is just fold the trunk in half and just give it a little squeeze. But not too much, we don’t want to break the balloon. That gives the trunk a little bit of a curve, to add a little more character to your elephant.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. And now, I’ll show you how to make a balloon tiger. To make the tiger you blow it up leaving about a six inch tail at the end. Now we are going to make about a two and a half inch nozzle at the end. Pinch and twist. Now you make two small bubbles. Pinch and twist. Pinch and twist about the same size. And now you do another two inch bubble, again holding it against the side of your body so they don’t come apart. Pinch and twist so it looks like this. Now we are going to lock twist the first small bubble and the last bubble you just made and lock twist them together like this. Now we will make the same two small bubbles. Pinch and twist. Pinch and twist and make one more big bubble. Pinch and twist. Now you do that lock twist again. Bring them down and lock them together. Now you are going to do that special twist with this bubble and this bubble. We will do the ear twist. Fold it in half and twist. Now do the same thing with this bubble. Fold it in half and twist. That gives us the ears of the tiger. Now we will make a two inch bubble about the same size as the nose. Pinch and twist and you are going to lock those two together. Fold them up here, take the nozzle, wrap it around. Now you are going to take the nozzle right here and put it inside the space in between these bubbles. That just makes sure that it doesn’t come undone. Now you are going to make another two inch bubble. Pinch and twist and you are going to bring this up and around between the two eyes here. Like this and that gives us the head of the tiger. Now we are going to make one more bubble the same size as the nose, about a two and a half inch bubble. Pinch and twist. And now you are going to make some two inch bubbles for the legs. Pinch and twist to make the same size bubble again fold it down here and lock twist together. Now we are going to make the body. Fold twist, pinch and twist another one for the back leg and one more and we are going to lock them together. Bring them down here and twist the back legs and this gives us the balloon tiger.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals.

Now, I’ll show you how to make the balloon bear. To do the bear you blow it up leaving about a three inch tail at the end. The end with the nozzle you’ll make a one inch bubble, pinch and twist, then about a two inch bubble pinch and twist. Now hold that in place against your body. And you’re going to make another, about a three inch bubble, pinch and twist, now you’ll make a one inch bubble
pinch and twist, a two inch bubble pinch and twist another one inch bubble pinch and twist and lastly another three inch bubble, pinch and twist.

From here, we’ve done a lot of work, but we need to take this third bubble, not one, two but three and the last one and come down and lock it together. Now, it’s okay if this one inch bubble goes away for a moment we can remake that in a moment. We’ll do the lock twist. Now with the small bubble, the two small bubbles here, we’ll do the ear twist. Fold it in half, pinch and twist carefully. Do the same thing with the other one fold it in half, pinch and twist.

Now we’ll reform that one inch bubble that we lost a moment ago, make sure is stays, and bring that end through these two balloons here, up and around, and
this gives us the head of the bear.

Now for the body you want to make a neck.
We do about another one inch bubble. Make a three inch bubble for the first leg, make the same thing, fold it in half, and lock twist. Make a two inch bubble for the body, make another three inch body, fold it in half, right here, pinch and twist, giving us our balloon bear.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain, and I’m here at the Veritas Theater at the beautiful Elms College in Chickapea, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor, having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today, I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’m going to show you how to make a swan. To make the swan you blow up the balloon leaving about a four inch tail at the end. At the end with the nozzle you’ll make a three inch bubble, pinch and twist. Hold that in place. Now I’m going to make a bubble about double that size. So you can hold it against your body, measure a three inch bubble and a six inch, pinch and twist. Now you’re going to make a bubble the exact same size, and a quick way to do that is to bring them together like this, pinch and twist where it meets. So now you’ve made the same size bubble and locked it in place. Now I’m going to make another bubble about that same size, pinch and twist. Now you’re going to bring this bubble inside the space in between. To do that, very carefully bring it up and insert it here, and push it through very carefully. And that gives us the tail and the body of the swan. Now to make the head, this is kind of fun. You’re going to take this tail part of the balloon and bring it down here. You’re going to hold it in place with your thumb right here. Now you’re going to squeeze gently. And when you do that, watch what happens. Re-position the head. That gives us the neck and the head of the balloon swan. …And do the ear twist… Sometimes they pop! Let’s try that again.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. There are many, many ways you can perform: at fairs, at festivals, at private parties, at corporate events. When I first started making balloon animals, I would do magic shows, and it was an add-on sale. I would do my magic show. At the end of the show I would stick around for an extra 20 minutes, half-hour, making balloon animals for all the kids. So it was an easy way to break in with that. If you want to find work, if you’re just starting out, you can online, you can research local fairs, local festivals. You can look at sales flyers, see if anyone’s having a grand opening. A lot of times, they will want to hire people to attract families. So a balloon artist is definitely in demand, so that’s a great way to get your foot in the door. Even just give them a call and say, “Hey, I make balloon animals. How about I show up and do that at your shop?” So, that’s a great way to do it too. And always be sure to have business cards printed up that have your contact information. That way as you’re out there doing it, you can hand out your card, so that people can call you afterwards if they’re having a party. So definitely, if you do a good job, you’ll get work after it. Another way, having a brochure or a flyer, you can have pictures of your work on there, too. You can post them around town or hand those out as well. So that’s a great way to sell yourself as a balloon artist. I found my first job doing magic shows, and what I would do is, I remember the first time someone called me to a magic show. And I said, “Hey, I also make balloon sculptures. So after the party, after the show, I’ll make a balloon for all the kids.” And they were like, “Sure!” So it was an easy way to make a few extra bucks on the magic show, too. The kids, really, they bought it, and the adults loved it too. So, it was a great way to get started.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. I’m going to show you how to make a balloon dog. To do that, you will need to blow up the balloon, leaving about a 3 inch tail at the end. Take your hand at the other end with the nozzle and twist about a 3 inch bubble, by pinching, twisting, like so. Now you’re going to hold that in place as you pinch and twist another bubble about the same size, again, twisting it several times so it stays in place. Now you’re going to make one more bubble. If you need to, you can hold it against the side of your body and your arm to make sure it stays in place. And you pinch and twist another bubble. So now you have something that looks like this. Now you’re going to do the lock twist. You take these two bubbles here, you bring them together like so, and you lock them together. Twist it several times to make sure it doesn’t come apart. What that does, it makes the head of the dog. Now you’re going to make another bubble about the same size, pinch and twist. Come down, pinch and twist another bubble the same size. Again, holding it against your body if you need to. And twist another bubble, again, the same size. So now we have something that looks like this. Now it’s time to do the lock twist again. Take these two bubbles, bring them together, pinch, lock them together, and twist. So that makes the head, the neck, and the front legs. Now we need the body and the back legs. To do that, same thing: 3 inch bubble, pinch and twist; another 3 inch bubble, pinch and twist; and lastly, pinch and twist another 3 inch bubble. Now take these two bubbles here, bring them together like so, lock them together, and twist enough so they don’t come apart. And now you have the head, the neck, the legs, the body, and the tail of the balloon dog.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions to public and private event planners for many, many years. It was actually my first job doing magic shows and making balloon animals. I performed at birthday parties, at weddings, at corporate events, at fairs, at festivals, at sporting events and for years that’s what I did – I provided entertainment for entertainments sake. But over the past few years I’ve moved the focus of my work from entertainment for entertainments sake to magic with a message, inspirational speaking, sharing what I most love to help people live lives of purpose and personal prosperity. For more information on my work, you may visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’ll be talking about making balloon animals.

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Hi, I’m Jonas Cain and I’m here at the Veritas Theatre at the beautiful Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed and provided entertainment solutions for many, many years. Visit my website at www.jonascain.com. And today I’m going to be talking about making balloon animals. And now I’m going to show you how to make a horse. To make the horse you blow up a bubble, the balloon leaving about a three inch tail at the end. Now at the end with the nozzle we will make about a three inch bubble.
Pinch and twist. Now using two fingers we are going to make a small bubble. Pinch and twist. That looks like this. With this bubble we are going to make a special twist called the ear twist. To do that, you bring that bubble together and you pinch and twist it together giving the first ear of the horse. Now you do the same thing. Make a small bubble. Pinch and twist. Bring it together and pinch and twist. Be very careful as this is sometimes where the balloons like to pop. Be very careful. Giving us the nose and ears of the horse. Now, to do the neck we make the same sized bubble as the nose. Pinch and twist a three inch bubble. Now you are going to make the legs of the horse which is a little longer. Pinch and twist about a four inch bubble. Now you will make a bubble about-exactly the same size actually. The fast way to do that is to bring this right down here and pinch and twist giving us the front legs of the horse. The body will be about the same size as the neck. Pinch and twist a three inch bubble. Now you will make two more four inch bubbles. Pinch and twist. Remember the fast way just bring them together like this. Pinch and twist giving us the back legs. Now this looks a lot like the dog so what we do to add a little more to this is we need another balloon and this balloon can be a contrasting color. You can blow it up about half way it does not matter because we are going to cut off what we don;t need. Pinch and twist small bubbles. Bubble number one, two, three. Again hold it against the side of your body so that they don’t come apart. And eight and we will stop there so now it looks like a string of pearls or a bunch of grapes. you bring it together and you are going to take this nozzle end and tie it around so that the air does not escape from the rest of the balloon. So now what we have made could be a bracelet, but what we are going to do instead it to take it and put two of the bubbles here up here on the ears, Insert it right around here, being very careful and gentle with the balloons so it looks like this. Now you are going to take the middle here and twist it around so that it locks up in place and bring this down here and take this extra balloon and wrap it around the neck and legs of the horse. Now we can take that pair of scissors that we just used and cut off the rest of the balloon because we won’t need it. That gives us the balloon horse.