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I made a balloon sculpture to make a giant number 16 for my brothers 16^th birthday.

Here is a short tutorial of how I made it and how you can make your own.

The number 1 is made of 72 balloons while the 6 is made from 85 balloons. 157 balloons in total.

To make the numbers I used a stand that usually use from my lighting set up. You just need a long straight pole to wrap the balloons around.

Blow up four balloons

Tie two together by their necks then the other two.

Twist the two lots of balloons together to make a bunch of four balloons.

This is one layer of the balloon sculpture.

Place the balloons to the bottom of the pole and push the pole between two of the balloons. The balloons should stay on the pole.

Build another layer of balloons in the same way. Place the next layers of balloons on the pole between the gaps of the last layer of balloons.

Continue this until you reach the top of the pole.

Now you have made a balloon column.

To make the top of the one, I simply made three layers of balloons which were threaded through a piece of string instead of the pole. The string was then attached to the top of the pole.

To make the six, I made a balloon column first. Then I made the circle of the six out of wire and twisted the balloons around it.

I only used three balloons in the balloon layer around the sixes circle. This stoped the balloons from getting to wide, and it left a bigger hole in the middle.

Now you have a completed Balloon Number 16. If you want other numbers you will have to change it slightly to make the correct shape.

I created these flying bat decorations for Halloween last year, But they still look great.

I originally got the idea for this decoration from Marvelous Mommy.com. You can read her tutorial here.

Materials

A4 Black Card
Masking Tape

I have created a bat silhouette that you can use as a template. You can download the template here.

Download Flying Bat Template Here

Print off the template and cut it out.

Trace around the template onto a black piece of card. You can easily fit two bat silhouettes on one piece of A4 card.

(Picture of Template traced on to teh black card here)

Now cut out around the outline. To make sure that the bats wings are the same shape on both sides you can fold the card and template in half, line the folded edge of the template up to the folded edge of the card, trace and cut out the outline.

Once you have cut out the bat silhouette simply fold some masking tape over itself and stick it on the back and stick to the wall.

And you’re done! Create as many as you want and arrange them as you like.

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