June 26 - Loopy Elephant

“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”

~ Graydon Carter

Here is one of my first attempts in using Tony Twist's Loop the Loop concept to build something "off the page".

Each year I donate a balloon package to our school gala fundraiser, in previous years it was to provide balloons for an event, but this year we opted for a lower 'buy it now" price and offer multiple smaller balloon creations.  This is the first of these - an elephant as decoration for someone's first birthday party.  I was happy that the Loop the Loop concept could work so well for providing a nice larger sized model.

I built a prototype first and decided the ears were a bit small and I wanted to experiment with a nice Lima-twisted trunk that could hold a cake.   I think I had good success in the decision to have a separate balloon for the tip of the trunk because it could more easily be offset to provide a nice base.  I made a woven cake but it ended up a bit large and heavy, so i had to simplify with what you see here.

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Other Loop the loop designs:

• July 1 - Loopy Pig
• June 30 - Loopy Goofy
• June 29 - Loopy Normal Sized Bird
• June 28 - Loopy Big Bird
• June 27 - Loopy Dragon
• June 26 - Loopy Elephant
• June 25 - Loopy Fox
• June 24 - Loopy Mouse
• June 23 - Loopy Bear
• June 22 - Loopy Chipmunk
• June 21 - Loopy Cat
• June 20 - Loopy Bull
• June 19 - Loopy Aliens
• June 18 - Loopy Devil

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