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like, yellow. >> you can get yellowing or discoloration of the skin, as well.t also affect the density and strength of your bones. >> so, you have weaker, thinner, more fragile bones that are moree. smoking also decreases blood flow and oxygen delivery to the tissues and to the limbs. a sports injury or a wound, it'll take much longer to heal. it also leads to muscle fatigue and muscle breakdown.o the senses, smoking makes no sense. >> it can decrease hearing, decrease eyesight, decreasese of taste, as well. >> also it costs a lot of money, which is not, of course, a health benefit, but, i mean, that's really difficult becausef money on cigarettes when you should be spending on, like, other items. >> let's put it this way, if you spend a lot of money now on smoking, no doubt you'lla lot more money later on for doctor bills and hospital stays. for "teen kids news,"

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america's top balloon expert balloon hat bible." welcome. >> i am so excited to be here. thank you for having me.ming in. so, how can teens make money using balloons and making balloons? >> you know, wherever you haveto attract the attention of kids, and wherever you have kids, you've got parents with money. so you can go to a park and make balloons in a park, you can go to a restaurant, you can do birthday parties.y ways to do it. pretty much anywhere that you might find children, you can make some money. >> so, what can you make out of balloons? show you. >> all right. these are amazing. did you make all of them? >> yeah, you know, just a little something i whipped up. [ laughs ]lly cool. all right, so i'm ready to learn -- how do we get started? >> all right, well, the first balloons. so this first one over here, these really teeny, tiny, little

and the reason they're calledthey're fully inflated, they're approximately one inch wide and 60 inches long. so this next group we have here, guess why? >> because when you inflate them, they're two inches wide -- >> and 60 inches long, that's right. and these here we call 350s, fully inflated, these big guys, they're about 3 inches wide and 50 inches long. these ones you don't use as often.y with just using 260s and nothing else, especially when you're starting. >> okay, so, these over here are the 260s?y right. those are made out of 260s. we make all kinds of things out of the 260s. it's the most common twisting balloon. >> right, yeah. i recognize those.e a correct way to blow up a balloon? >> yeah -- so, you wanna use your diaphragm if you're going to blow up by mouth. h, you know, the side with the hole. [ inhales ] grab it. take a deep breath and -- [ blowing ]

[ laughs ] >> all right, actually, it can be really hard. >> kind of difficult, yeah. >> so i have a pump here. >> okay.it a lot easier. and if you're going to use a pump, you want to get a pump that has -- that takes in air from both sides. so, this pump is a two-way pump,p, it pumps both on the up stroke and the down stroke. now, when you're using the pump you need to put the balloon on the pump and hold it while you're inflating it,o fly off. >> let me just slide it on. >> mm-hmm, yep. >> just open -- like this?p and pull it down, there you go. >> hah! >> yep, perfect. >> look at that! >> so, actually, let me put these on you here. there you go, good. and... so, when we get started, the first time that you're blowing up a balloon i really recommend that you inflate it until it pops. so just keep on going. >> oh, my gosh.going, i want you to feel how tight it gets. >> is it gonna hurt? >> keep going, keep going, keep going. you got this, yep.re.

>> the fact that i'm wearing glasses really scares me! [ laughs ]more. yep, you see how tight it's getting? >> oh, yeah. >> yeah. so, this is what i want you to feel is -- look, i mean, you can [ pop ] >> oh! >> all right! that's how much it can take. you can take off the glasses now. >> whoo!e first thing that you need to know, is how much pressure it can take before it's going to pop. because once you've done that, now you're going to be a lotke things out of them. >> of course. all right, that was really loud! so, i notice that you're not using any helium. >> well, you know, these balloons, they won't float, so there's no point in using helium in them when they're not going to float anyway. the weight of the balloon islity of the gas that could be inside. and as for these, we don't need helium, you know. we don't need helium to have a good time. we can do so much without it,regular air, which is free. >> yeah.

how to make something out of a balloon? >> yeah! let me -- i'm going to make you a hat. all right, let's see. let's pick out some colors here. hold that for me if you don't mind -- and hold that one there, too.le. all right. so, i'm going to make you a basic crown here. so, the first thing, i'm going to just measure your head.then i'm going to bring this over here like that. it's a little bit squeaky, kinda like, little "eeh-eeh-eeh," squeaky serenade, yeah -- all right, and you seethere. okay, and now i'm just gonna give this a little stretch. and you see i -- to save time, i have all the balloons pre-inflated for you.to bend -- do the same thing here, bend it in the center. and now i'm going to make an x. >> oh, my gosh. >> i'm just going to put it straight through.that. >> you can do this really quickly, wow! >> well, i've been doing it for a few years.

it really doesn't. it's just like anything, it's practice. the more you put into it, the faster you're going to get, get. >> yeah. >> squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, and then to top it off,little round here with some polka dots. >> adorable. >> and, you see, i'm just wrapping this around, just like that.r crown. >> oh, thank you! >> oh, it looks great on you. perfect! very regal. >> i feel like a princess. i look very nice. about making money by making balloons when

i. she's a cba, or a certified balloon artist. so, how did you get into balloons? >> you know, totally by accidenthat i was a first grade teacher, and i started making things in my classroom. i found out that i could get

them a balloon on friday.g i knew, my school went out for the -- it was, like, the summer, you know, the big break, and i was invited to go perform in japan. and i went all over the world making balloons.ng just kind of led to the other. and i've been doing it for just over 20 years, and if you would have told me, you know, 22 years ago, "hey, you're going to be artist," i would have been like, "i'm going to be a what?" but it's, you know, i bring people joy. my job is to make people happy, and what could be better? >> yeah, it's a lot of fun. >> okay, let's bring some joy. can you show me how to make something? >> yeah!ut a sword. you know what? that's really the first thing that you need to know is how to make a sword. and no matter where you go, if you make balloons, that's what kids are going to ask for. so, let's see here. you a balloon. >> okay. >> all right, now this is something really important. now, you feel it's a little bit squishy? >> mm-hmm.e is fully inflated, we've left it -- we've given it a good burp. so that means that after we inflated it, we kinda just let some air out like, "pbht!"

and the reason that we do that is so that when we put some twists in it, it's not going to pop. and now you can feel that you've got some room to play with this, right? having popped that otherhat. right, yeah, that's why i say you wanna do. okay, so the next thing that you need to know is that this side here where it's tied, this is called the nozzle. we always want to start twistingde. >> okay. >> now, the next thing that you need to know is that -- just watch me for a second. if you take a single bubbleatter who you are, no matter what you do, if you let go, it's not going to stay. so it needs to be locked to another part of the balloon.o do is we're going to take it, squeeze and twist a little bubble off. yep. perfect.'re going to fold it and make a loop like this, about the size of your hand, or about, you know, maybe a little bit bigger than your palm. and then squeeze it like that, good. t from the top and just twist. it's easier if you twist from the top. yeah, good, perfect. right here, like, just swivel

>> there we go. >> yeah. all right, and now what you're going to do is flip it around so it kind of looks like a golf club. okay, and you're just kind of gonna open up the circle,our hand. and you're going to feed the rest of the balloon into it. almost all they way but not quite. just like that. yeah, you did it. a little bit. there you go, you've made your first sword! en garde! congratulations! [ both laugh ] very good!. wow. >> you know what, i think that you can have this now. i -- i think that you are -- have become an official ballooner. >> you are ready. >> this is an honor. all right, so, can anyone really learn how to be a balloon artist?st thing that you have to get over is being afraid of the balloons popping. sometimes they pop -- as you've seen. so, once you can get past that,balloon artist as long as they enjoy doing it. that's the most important thing. if you don't like it, you know, you're not going to be very good at it.ctice. right? everybody has to go through

so, practice, practice, practice. and the more you practice,g to be. and eventually you get the point where you see the world in balloons, and you can look at something and say, okay, if i want to make that, here's the shapes that i need to get there.thing else to make? >> sure! let's see, what can we make real quick? um, you wanna make a quick dog? >> sure!s one. >> i love dogs. >> and let me get, uh... let's get a yellow one here. all right. so, we just did a bubble and a loop on the sword. a repetition of that, that we're going to do another bubble and loop series. only this time we're going to do three sets of bubble-loop, bubble-loop, bubble-loop.rt by taking about a handful of balloon, just like that. always on the side where it's tied, on the nozzle side, right.u want to kind of hold it while you make a small loop. okay, you're going to squeeze and twist from the top of the loop. yep. like that. yeah. okay, and now we're going to go down, grab about a handful,

going to make a little bit -- a loop. this is what we call a three-twist dog. >> oh. >> yeah, maybe you don't want it quite that big. right there? and then you make your loop. okay, and like i said, it's always easier if you squeeze and twist from the loop. yep, right there. >> oh! >> yeah, all right, i'm going to give it to you, you're going to do the next one. all right, and then one more time. and that's going to make those back legs.getting a little bit tight. >> so, we twist, hold -- >> and then make a loop, like that. and then twist the loop.t. there you go. actually, i think yours is an aardvark. yeah, it works. [ laughing ] [ barks ]like this. i'm going to keep this. so we're talking a lot about -- we mentioned the money making aspect of it.ke doing ballooning? >> you know, it depends on how much you do it. if you're going to, for instance, go to the park

a balloon. that's -- that's about normal, that if you make a balloon somebody's probably going to tip you a dollar. they -- you know, they may or may not, but most likely they will.ays, you could be making anywhere -- you know, when you get good, you could be making anywhere from, you know, $25 or $50 couple of hours. so, you're going to set your own prices. i mean, this is the thing about being an entrepreneur.hen and where you work and how much you make. >> so, if a teen wants to learn how to become a balloon artist, how would they go about learning how to do it?there's books, like my book. there's youtube videos -- i have a ton of videos on youtube. >> oh, really? >> um, and then once you get, better, there's conventions, there's seminars, there's workshops, and there's also just hanging out with other balloon artists, -- we call it balloon jams -- showing different ideas. >> jams? >> yeah, we took it from the music industry. so there's a ton of ways to learn. the main thing is that when you to, you know, do everything at least

and that way you'll start to own that pattern. yeah.. well, thank you so much for being with us today. >> this was so much fun. thank you so much. now, go forth and balloonify. expand your earning capacity, consider becoming a balloon artist.i'm emily. e've got lots more to tell you about on "teen kids news."

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>> "teen kids news" got a chance to visit the culinary institute of america.at we learned. >> peanut butter lovers, this one's for you. this quick and easy recipe takes fruit snacking to a whole 'nother level. first thing we're going to do is take half a cup of whipped cream -- i made it myself. you can get any kind of pre-made whipped cream at the store.that. and you're going to take a quarter of a cup of peanut butter. right in the bowl.ix ounces of low-fat or non-fat vanilla yogurt,

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