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How to Make a Pop-Up Paper Balloon: Part 3

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Summary: Learn to make a pop-up paper balloon in this free video on pop-up gifts and cards. .

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How to Make a Pop-Up Paper Balloon: Part 3

Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. We'll take that side corner and match it right up to the center, and it's getting thicker there; you want to crease that down hard even though it's feeling thicker. Do that for all four sides, and look at what that looks like. When you do the two sides, then you flip it over and repeat with the other two sides, making sure to really press that down, and have a nice strong crease. Now we have this shape, and on the bottom there's a little teeny bit of a hole and here you have some flaps. We're just going to tuck those flaps into the hole that was created when we folded these sides in. You just take the flap and you tuck it in there as far as it will go, and crease that down, and that's what it looks like. You do that for all of the flaps. Open this up a little bit, like this, and tuck that in there as far as it will go. Then turn it over, and you have two more flaps. You want to do the same thing; open up the side pocket. This just holds the balloon together, and keeps the flaps nice and neat. Open that up, tuck it in as far as it will go, and then crease it tight. To blow up this balloon, the hole is not quite so big, so we're just going to snip a little bit off the top. You'll decide how much you want to snip off. If you wanted to be able to look in it, and you want a bigger hole, you'll see later that you'll do that. You just put your mouth over this hole gently but firmly, and blow into it. That is our paper balloon.

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