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From: lm03_cif (Larry Moss)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 18:37:29 -0500
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To: balloon@gawain.cif.rochester.edu
Subject: kangaroo
Status: O

This is one of the first figures many kids ask for when I tell them to try
to stump me.  I think it looks pretty good and it's farily easy to make.
You can sometimes even get them to jump - albeit usually backwards, but
it's a start.

Inflate a 260, leaving about a four inch nipple.  Start with the standard
nose (~1.5"), two ears (~.5"), and neck (1" - 1.5").  Now make arms out
of two 2.5" bubbles.  Make a bird body using three bubbles about 5"
long.  Now finish off with two legs and a tail.  The legs should be
somewhat larger than the arms.

Now if you've followed that you have something that looks almost entirely
unlike a kangaroo.  You need to force the various parts of the figure to
stay in their places.  I've found that you can pull the lower portion of
the middle bubble of the body down, just slightly between the legs.  By
slightly I mean just enough that there is enough friction to keep the
legs in place.  The same thing can be done with the arms and neck.  One
thing to keep in mind when tucking the body into the legs is that it
helps to form the shape of a kangaroo that most people are familiar
with.  The lower portion of the body can be made to stick forward enough
that it looks like there could be a little pouch.

If someone asks to see it jump, I pick it up to move it to a "better"
spot on the table so it has some room.  As I pick it up I free the legs
from the body.  When I place it back down I hold it against the table so
it looks the way it did before with the legs close to the body and
quickly release it.  The legs act like a little spring.