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In this video I will show y'all how to create a unproblematic balloon column with items you can find on every political party store!

(Note: Since this balloon column doesn't take whatever stand in it, it is better to utilise it indoors only).

A balloon cavalcade is a smashing manner to decorate an effect with balloons.

In order to create the balloon cavalcade in this video, you will need the post-obit items:

  • 16 X 12'' Balloons (Colour ane)
  • 16 X 12'' Balloons (Color ii)
  • Another 12'' Balloon (For the H2o Weight)
  • 2 Modelling Balloons (Long Balloons)
  • A Foil (Mylar) Airship
  • Recommended: a Balloon Pump

About the listing of particular yous will need in order to create a balloon column

I do not recommend to blow upwards balloons using your rima oris, mainly considering information technology's an effort to inflate so many balloons past mouth, just also because the pump allows to inflate all balloons to the same size (which is important to create a cute and an aesthetic balloon pattern), so I recommend you to buy a airship pump to inflate the balloons with.

The balloon column is commonly based on quads of balloons (that means 4 round balloons that are attached to each other), and at information technology'south bottom there's ordinarily a airship water weight that stabilize the column.

Note that a professional balloon designer will use a metallic frame, so that the airship cavalcade will be directly and very stable.

The balloons I use here tin exist inflated to a maximum size of 12 inches (that'due south why they are called, 12" balloons) only nosotros will inflate them to a smaller size.

To create our balloon column, we will employ sixteen balloons in one color and boosted 16 balloons in another colour.
 Here I chose pink and white balloons.
 In improver, we will need 1 extra 12-inch balloon (no matter what colour) to create a airship h2o weight to stabilize the bottom of the column.

Afterwards nosotros will also use two modelling balloons. These are the balloons that nosotros usually make balloon animals with (like a balloon canis familiaris or a balloon sword), merely hither, nosotros will utilize them to connect the balloons in the balloon column to each other. I strongly encourage yous to employ these long balloons, but if you do non have long balloons, y'all tin can apply a ribbon or a fishing line instead.

In improver, nosotros too have one more special balloon here. This is the balloon that will exist placed at the top of the column. This balloon is called Mylar or foil Airship, in this case, it is a round "happy birthday" balloon.

Notice that I matched the colors of the round balloons to the colors of the foil balloon.

How to make a balloon column?

The first thing to do is to create a airship h2o weight. That means that we are going to fill a 12-inch balloon with water.

Take a 12-inch balloon, stretch it over the faucet's opening like this , and gently turn on the water. Now, pull the neck of the balloon off of the faucet, and necktie the balloon.

Detect the size of the water weight. If it'll be also small, our balloon column will be unstable, and if nosotros'll make it too large information technology might not fit properly under the balloon column

Inflating the balloons

And now, we will inflate all our 32 round balloons to the same size!

By the way, inflating balloons to the same size is a task that anyone who works with balloons professionally tin can easily do using a special pump or by measuring the balloons using a airship sizer.

But, of course I will show you now how to inflate all your balloons to the size of 8 inches (or 21 centimetres) without using whatever special equipment. So, how exercise y'all do that?

If you apply a green pump like the one I use in the video, inflate each balloon with 15 total pumps.

If yous do not have a pump, yous tin can place two chairs 8 inches (or 21 cm) apart . You inflate the airship to a larger size, and and then, as yous slowly take the air out of the balloon, endeavour to pass it gently betwixt the two chairs. When the balloon passes easily betwixt the ii chairs, that means that it is inflated to the appropriate size.

Past the way, if you want to acquire how to brand balloon designs professionally and not measure balloons with chairs, please click here and check our balloon decoration tutorials

And now nosotros will always necktie two balloons together

How exercise we tie them? We will cross the ii balloons like that and stretch the two nozzles , then we will plough this nozzle around the other nozzle twice. and so we will tie a normal knot

Let'due south practice the same with ii white balloons that nosotros inflated to the same size of course

Then nosotros have the ii pairs of balloons (the white and pink ones) and interlock them . And so we will switch places between i of the white balloons and one of the pink balloons, twice .

And so nosotros actually created a balloon "quad". We will utilise this quad as the bottom part of our balloon column.

We will also create the other balloon quads onto our balloon cavalcade in the exact aforementioned way, simply now is the time to attach our airship water weight to the bottom quad so information technology will stabilize our airship column.

We'll tie the h2o weight at the connection point of the four balloons.

Now, stretch the nuzzle of the water weight and wrap it around two different balloons

Finally, nosotros will make a double knot to make sure it will non get undone.

And at present, permit'southward tie the end of the long balloon to the exact same place.

Here, too, I double-check to make sure that this airship won't unravel when we stretch it.

Stacking balloon quads into a balloon column

And now, let'south come across how to connect the second quad (b y the fashion, we will as well connect the other quads of the balloon cavalcade in the same way).

I place the next airship quad in a diagonal class to the previous quad. This diagonal makes the airship column more stable and also creates a screw blueprint on the column, only similar a candy pikestaff.

Then, I firmly stretch the long balloon, pushing it down into the center of the balloon quad, and then, I twist the long balloon tightly around ii unlike balloons

And so I inflate and tie more than and more pairs of balloons, create more and more balloon quads, and stack the quads on each other in the exact same manner.

Notice that y'all are keeping a close centre on the colors of the balloons, and then that the column will eventually look like a screw.

Our cavalcade will be viii levels high , which means it volition consist of 8 balloon quads.

And now, allow'due south become to the top of the cavalcade. To do this I will employ our foil balloon. We will open the foil balloon and inflate it with a pump. Notation that if you do non have a pump, y'all can inflate the mylar balloon past inserting a straw into the balloon inflating nozzle, and accident into the straw.

I volition inflate this balloon with a pump.

Then, I take a pump, put it in the airship'due south nozzle, and inflate the airship. Occasionally, I check to see if the balloon is inflated enough, and I stop when information technology'southward already fully inflated.

When you lot're done inflating the mylar, y'all're in for a surprise! Mylar balloons have an automatic valve, then the air doesn't get out when you lot stop inflating them

Even so, to attach the mylar to our balloon column, put the middle of the long balloon at the outset of the nozzle and coil the nozzle upwards.

And so we will make a double knot in the long balloon

At present we can accept the long balloon that is attached to the foil balloon and wrap it twice around the peak quad of the balloon column .

And this is it! our balloon column is ready!

P.Due south. If you want to try more than avant-garde balloon column designs, try to change the size of each quad or effort to use a different mylar balloon