hi I'm Jonas Kane 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 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'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 and then about a two inch bubble pinch and twist now hold that in place against your body and you want to make another about a three inch bubble pinch and twist now you'll make a 1 inch bubble pinch and twist a 2 inch bubble pinch and twist another 1 inch bubble pinch and twist and lastly another 3 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 of this one inch bubble that goes away for a moment we could 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 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 it 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 we want to make a neck give you about another 1 inch bubble make a three inch bubble for the first leg make the same thing fold in half and lock twist make a two inch bubble for the body make another 3 inch bubble fold in half right here pinch and twist giving us our balloon bear