Large Frog

From [email protected]  Thu May  2 22:56:26 1996
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 20:49:30 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sir Twist 
To: Balloon Sculpting Mailing List 
Subject: Large Frog
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Well, I'm at it again!  I was challenged recently by a customer to do a 
big frog, and this is what I came up with:

Sir Twist's Large Frog
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You will need:
5 green 260Qs
1 red 260Q
1 yellow 260Q
1 white 260Q

1. Inflate two green balloons, leaving about 4 inches
Twist both as follows:

>(1)(4)(1)(4)(15)...
  ET\_Foot__/\__/

Give the 15 inch loop a crimp at the top to make it look like a frog's 
leg. Take the remainder of the balloon, and point it to the side of the 
leg. 

It should look somewhat like this:

       _
      | |
      | |
      | |<- Leg
      | |
    __|_|__ _______
   (_(___)_)_______}--  
    Foot^   Remainder^

Make the remainder on the other leg face the other way.
On the first balloon, make a 1 inch bubble, followed by a 1 inch ET.
Follow this with a 2 inch bubble. Break off and tie.
On the second balloon, make a 1 inch bubble, followed by a 1 inch ET. Tie 
the end of the first balloon to the ET of the second balloon. Break off 
and tie the second balloon. You should end up with two legs connected by 
a single length of balloon, with two ETs in it.

2. Inflate a third green balloon, leaving 6 inches. Make this balloon 
fairly soft.

Tie the nozzle of this balloon to one of the ETs on the legs. Loop it 
around, making a fairly large loop, and tie the other end to the other 
ET. Break off the remainder. This forms the main body.

3. Inflate the yellow balloon, leaving 4 inches uninflated.

Make a 2 inch bubble, and twist this balloon to one of the ETs, at the 
base of the body.

Run the yellow balloon up one side of the body,and about 2/3 of the way 
up, twist it into the green balloon of the body. Then, make two 4 inch 
bubbles, and twist it into the other side of the body. Bring the yellow 
balloon down to the second ET, and twist it in. Make a 2 inch bubble, tie 
the nozzle of the balloon around this twist. Make a 8 inch bubble, and 
tie this end to the middle of the two 4 inch bubbles. Break off the 
remainder, and tie.

4. Inflate the fourth green balloon, leaving 6 inches.
Tie the nozzle to the junction between the green body and the yellow balloon.
Make a 3 inch bubble, followed by a 2 inch, and another 3 inch bubble. 
Twist the end of this bubble into the other junction. Make a 7 inch 
bubble, and bring it across below the first 3 bubbles, and tie it to the 
first junction. Break off and tie.

5. Inflate the white balloon, leaving 8 inches.
Make a 4 inch bubble, and lock twist its ends around one of the top 
twists of the body(between the 3 inch and 2 inch bubbles.). This forms 
an eye. Break off, tie, and repeat for the other eye. With the remainder
of the balloon, Make a fly as follows: (2)(1)(2)
                                           ET

6. Inflate the last green balloon, leaving 8 inches.

Twist as follows:
>(1)(1)(1)(3)(3)(1)(1)(1)...
 ET \foot/      \foot/ET    Break off the remainder.

This forms the front legs. Tie them by the middle to the ends of the 2 
inch yellow bubble, at the base of the 8 inch bubble.

7. Inflate the red balloon almost all the way.

Tie the nozzle of the balloon to the joint of the front legs. Tie the fly 
about 4 inches from the other end of the balloon. Make the tongue go 
through the mouth, and stick straight out from it. Break the balloon off 
after the fly, and tie the end around the fly.

You should now have a large frog, catching a fly. 

If you make a top hat and a cane for him, he can be Michigan J. Frog! 
(from the Bugs Bunny cartoons.)