From balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu Tue Nov 14 13:55:51 1995 id AA14626; Tue, 14 Nov 95 13:52:00 EST Date: 14 Nov 95 13:44:15 EST From: "JOHN M. HOLMES" <102621.1047@compuserve.com> To: "Balloon H.Q." Subject: Famous canary Message-Id: <951114184414_102621.1047_GHS123-1@CompuServe.COM> Instructions for a little yellow bird. Hint: I taught, as opposed to I teach. _ _ Ledgend: >=nozzle, -=uninflatwd, (_)=chamber, *=knot, (_>=beak, (1)=chamber's place, [toe+bone]=body part, #2=illustration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #1 yellow 260 [ head +cheeks+neck+ arms +body+tail] ___ ___ ___ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ ___ _ >----*(___)(___)(___)(__)(__)(__)(_)(_)(_)(_)(___)(_)*-- \ /\ | /\ | /\ /\ | /\ /\ / (1) (2&3) (4&5) (6) (7to10) (11)(12) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #2 orange 260 [heel+ foot +legs+ foot +heel][beek] _ ___ ___ _ _ ___ ___ _ _ >*(_)(___)(___)(_)(_)(___)(___)(_)*--*(_> \ /\ | /\ | /\ | /\ / \ / (1) (2&3) (4&5) (6&7) (8) (9) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Illustration #1: Take a yellow 260, keeping 3in. from nozzle uninflated, fill to 2-2.5ft. & tie. Twist off 3-3in. chambers[head] and fold chambers(2&3)[head] together. Fold twist chambers(4&5) into 2 small 1in. bubbles[cheeks].Place each of these under(2&3). (2-5) should now form a plane with(1) pointing away from this junction. Twist off 1-1in. chamber(6)[neck] & place between cheeks to continue plane. Twist off 4-.5in. bubbles(7-10)[arms] spinning together to form a 4 bubble loop.Twist 2 each of these chambers together to form 2 arms. Place these opposite each other under the neck maintaining the plane. Set this balloon aside & go to illustration #2: Take an orange 260{Some people say, "Don't put the balloon in your mouth in front of the kids!". If you have a better way to do what I'm about to describe, then I'd like to hear about it.}. Put the balloon in your mouth & suck up a small bubble loose enough to be shaped(9) into a [beek] after the knot is tied. Tie knot{the one by the [beek] (9)} Return to nozzle.Inflate to about arms length{I'm 5'7"}, & tie as usual for you. Twist off a .5in.{half inch}chamber(1)[heel], followed by 2-3to4in. bubbles(2&3)[foot]. Spin these two together to formthe 1st. foot. Twist off 1-1in. chamber(4) [1st. leg], and hold between your pinky & ring finger of your non-predominant hand. Go back to Illustration #1. With remaining yellow bubble, twist off a 2in. chamber(11)[body] and flod in the last twist you made on the orange balloon. Working with the orange balloon, repeat foot process only in reverse, tying off just past the last .5in.{half inch} bubble. Cut, clip, snap, break, streach, or pop the remainder off & save the little beek for later. Do the same with the rest of the yellow balloon, tying off a 1in. bubble to keep the feet{orange} & tail/body joined at this point. {the reason I do this balloon in this order is so that my patrons have a hard time guessing what in the world I'm making up until the very last.} Remember the uninflated yellow nozzle? Pull it up over & between the 2 head chambers and wind it in at the cheek/head junction several times to keep the kids from undoing it. Now, wind in the orange beek at this same place & turn it down. Get yourself some white, paper reinforcement rings & apply two; one on either side of and just above the beek on the yellow head. It should look even better if you color the center hole on the rings & make three VERY small eyelashes above the rings with a sharpie. DONE! Let me know what you think of my first attempt at writing balloon directions. I do video much better. Did I send out a mail on this before & the file attachment didn't make it? Sorry! John,The Balloon Man-Dallas. oOo oOo \|/ \|/ $ $ \o/ {J} / \ / /