Simple Instructions to Twist your Own LadyBug Ballon

Purchase a bag of 260's wholesale balloons for twisting and a hand pump.  Take a red balloon and pump air into it until you inflate it half way. Tie a knot. Starting from the knot, twist a 2-3 cms. bubble and attach the knot to the other side of the bubble. That would be the head. Now make 4 more bubbles more or less the same size as the head. Twist the last bubble with the head. You will have a longer balloon sticking out of behind the head. Take that part and twist it to the same lenght as the 2 bubbles. Make it go thru the opening between the four bubbles. That is the back of the Ladybird. Now you have another bubble left and the long uninflated part of the balloon. Holding firmly the balloon at the "butt" of the ladybug, make an incision with the scisors at the end of the tail and let the air go out. Tie a knot right away to avoid the whole balloon to deflate. Use that long elastic to connect the tail with the head  with another knot, This is to secure it in your wrist or in your pony tail.

Now take a black balloon, inflate it just a tiny bit, enough to make two bubbles (Antennas). Tie a knot. Push the air to one extreme of the balloon to make a bubble there and then holding it firmly, push more air towards the other extreme. The goal is to have a bubble of air in both extremes of the balloon. Once you successfully  achieve this, measure that both antennas are at of the same lenght and make a knot at the intersection, leaving a loop that can go over the head of the ladybird. Place the antenna loop over the head and around the neck. Adjust the whole balloon so that everything looks good. Now with your permanent marker, make a thick black line longitudinal to the body (dividing the wings). In each side, draw three little black circles and fill them up.   Now draw a smily face and 2 eyes,  and  your ladybird is ready to fly to the hands of a lucky child.