Heart from balls to the Day of Lovers

Making a heart out of balloons is not as difficult as it might seem. You will need patience rather than some specific skills. To make a heart of balls with your own hands, you will need such materials and tools:

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  steel wire with a cross section of 2-3 mm;
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  Latex balls of two colors (in the ratio 7: 1, ie, one color is seven times larger than the other);
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  transparent wide adhesive tape;
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  Threads for tying balls (if you can not tie the tails of balls on a knot).

To inflate the balls, a compressor or a hand pump. However, if you have strong lungs, you can do without a compressor - if you are absolutely sure that inflating about a hundred and a hundred balls will not be a problem for you.

The heart of the balls is done in three stages. First you will need to make a framework for the heart, then - make the elements of the "four", of which the heart will be composed, and then - braid them with a skeleton.

First, bend the wire into a heart-shaped frame. If you do not have steel wire, you can takesay, a vein from an aluminum cable. The main thing is for the wire to bend easily, but at the same time keep the shape well (that is, it was neither too stiff nor too soft).

Bending the heart, connect the ends of the wire overlap and wrap it with a wide transparent tape to fix it. The junction of the ends of the wire must be on the straight section of the frame, and not on the bend, otherwise it will be more difficult for you to braid the frame with balls.

When the frame is ready, you can make elements from which you will then collect the heart from the balls. The heart is made from the basic elements - "fours". To make a four, inflate the first twoball. Watch that they are the same size (you can compare the sizes by applying inflated balls to each other). Tie two balls tails. Make another pair of related balls and twist the pairs with each other. Get a four.

If you make a solid heart, all fours will consist of balls of the same color. But it looks more beautiful a one-colored heart from balls with interspersed balls of another color (for example, white on red). In this case, half of the fours will be made up of four red balls, the other half will consist of three red and one white.

Having made the necessary number of fours (forheart diameter of one and a half meters they will need about 44 pieces), you can begin to collect the heart from the balls. It is best to start the assembly from the bottom (a pointed vertex of the heart). Take the two-tone four, string it on the wire and double-scroll the balls to lock. The side on which the single white ball will be, will be the face.

Then take a monophonic four and in the same waystring it next to the two-color. Tightly slide both fours so that there is no gap between them. The second monophonic four on the other side of the two-color and also slide. Then, on each side, string one bicolour four (make sure that the white balls are always on the same side). And so continue to string, alternating monochrome and two-color fours. Make sure that they are close enough to each other.

The hardest part is to squeeze the last four, do it carefully, so as not to burst balls (incidentally, it is better to take the balls from the very beginning with a margin in case of unforeseen losses). When all fours are strung, straighten the frame if required. Everything, your heart from the balls is ready!

As you can see, nothing complicated in making a composition of balloons in the form of a heart. A bit of training - and you will have an excellent a gift for Valentine's Day for your second half. By the way, you can still make your own heart of candy or heart from roses, such gifts are also very spectacular.