hi I'm Jonas Kane and I'm here at the Veritas theater at the beautiful Elms ecology Chicopee Massachusetts I am a magician and a balloon sculptor having performed in provided entertainment solutions for many many years visit my website at wwlp.com and today I'm going to be talking about making balloon animals 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'll make a three inch bubble pinch and twist now using two fingers we want to make a small bubble pinch and twist that looks like this now with this bubble we'll do a special twist called the ear twist to do that you bring that bubble together and you pinch and twist it together giving us the first year of the horse now the same thing make a small bubble pinch and twist bring it together and pinch and twist I'll be very careful because this is sometimes where the blue ones like to pop be very careful giving us the nose in the ears of the horse now to do the neck I'm going to make the same size bubble as the nose pinch you twist a three inch bubble now you're going to make the legs of the horse which is a little longer pinch and twist about a four inch bubble now you'll make this bubble about the exactly the same size actually the fast way to do that is bring it right down here pinch and twist giving us the front legs of the horse the bodies would be about the same size of the neck pinch and twist the three inch bubble now you'll 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 dogs so what we do to add a little more to this is we need another balloon in this balloon you can be it can be a contrasting color you can only even blow it up about half way it doesn't matter because we're going to cut off what we don't need and you're going to 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'll stop there so now it looks like a string of pearls or a bunch of grapes you bring it together and you're going to take this nozzle end and tie it around so that the air doesn't escape from the rest of the balloon so now what we've made could be a bracelet but what we're going to do instead is we're going to take it and put two of the bubbles here up here on the ears insert it right around here being very careful being gentle with the balloons so it looks like this now you're going to take the middle here and twist it around that locks them in place and bring this down here take this extra balloon wrap it around the neck and the 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 and that gives us the balloon horse