Adding Face to Balloon Duck

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Make your balloon duck look more realistic. Learn tips for adding features to a balloon duck figure in this free birthday party tricks video from an expert on balloon animals.

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Adding Face to Balloon Duck
Hi, I'm Dan McLellen with Expert Village. Now were going to talk about how to dress up the duck to make it just a little bit more presentable, make it a little fun. Were going to add a face in and a heart on to the duck, and it will give it just a lot more life. I'm going to start off by using a blue Sharpie here to draw a couple of little eyes on. I'm going to do some simple basic circles here, and then I'm going to pull out my black Sharpie, and what I'm going to do is actually give the pupils in the eyes and that gives a little more reality to it. So I'm give a little black circles inside the blue circles, draw on some eyebrows and some eyelashes, and a couple little marks on the beak there, and that creates the face of the duck right there. But I'm not going to stop here, perhaps I'm giving this to a little girl, and I have found that if you just add a simple heart to almost any creation you dress it up a lot. So, once again I'm going to blow up a heart, I'm going to use a pink balloon this time, once again I'm not blowing it up all the way, I'm leaving a little bit of air there, I'm going to let a little bit of air out of the top there so that I can tie it, give me some area to work with. Fold the balloon in thirds and do my bear hug, take a half inch on both ends of the balloon here and connect them, flip it up, hold the balloon at ten and two, put my hands in reverse direction, fold down, squeeze, and I've got a heart. And now I'm going to take the tail and I'm going to connect it into the segment where the two half inches connect in the heart, and now the duck is connected to the heart and it just looks oh, so much more cute. Well that's it, that's a complex duck inside a heart.

About the Expert

Expert: Dan McLellan has been the resident balloon artist for last five years at the World Famous Corvette Dinner in San Diego. He also a Cruise Ship Director for Holland America. Read More