how to model a balloon rabbit with a carrot

How to Model a Balloon Rabbit with a Carrot.

This rabbit with a carrot, created with a few balloon modelling skills, makes a fun decoration for Easter-related activities, or for the rabbit lover in your life.
Steps. 1. Blow up the balloon. Place the lip of a white 260Q balloon over the nib of your pump. Inflate the balloon leaving about a 2 inch (5.1 cm) tail.
2. Tie off the balloon. Loop the lip around your fingers, then tuck it through the loop.
Gently pull and release to form the knot.
3. Create the rabbit's head.
Twist a 2 inch (5.1 cm) bubble for the rabbit's head.
4. Make the long ears.
Make two 5 inch (12.7 cm) bubbles twisting in the same direction.
Twist them together to lock them off. These will be the rabbit's long ears.
5. Create the neck. Twist a small bubble for the neck
6. Make the front legs.
Add two 2 inch (5.1 cm) bubbles and lock them off for short front legs.
Position the rest of the balloon so that it is horizontal.
7. Prepare the body.
Make a bubble for the body the same size as the rabbit's head.
Squeeze all the air down to the end of the balloon so it is fully inflated.
8. Build the back legs and tail.
Make two long bubbles for back legs leaving a small bubble at the end of the balloon for the cottontail.
Lock the legs off leaving the bubble sticking up at the bottom.
Push the front legs in between the back legs to make your rabbit sit up.
9. Draw a face.
Use scissors to carefully trim the knot on the nose.
Take a permanent marker pen and draw on eyes and a mouth with buck teeth.
10. Make the carrot. Take a160Q orange balloon and inflate it a tiny bit. Tie it off and then tie a knot in the other end of the balloon where the tail begins. Snip off the rest of the tail with your scissors.
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11. Add leaves. Next take a green 160Q balloon. Cut off the knot end. Loop the green balloon round your fingers and catch the knot of the orange balloon in the loop. Then tie a knot in the green balloon for the carrot's leaves.
12. Add the carrot. Pop the carrot into the legs of the rabbit.
Tips : Use differently coloured markers for the nose, eyes and other features that you add to add elements of additional interest.
Things You'll Need : 1 white 260Q balloon, 2 160Q balloons in green and orange, a professional pump, some scissors, permanent marker pens.