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Balloon Platonic Solids

There are five platonic solids! The simplest one is the tetrahedron, pictured above. It takes two balloons to make, each twisted into three sections and connected like so:

The cube can be made with four balloons, also each twisted into three sections, and looks like this:

The dodecahedron needs ten balloons with three section each:

The octahedron can be twisted out of just one balloon! See detailed instructions how.

The icosahedron needs six balloons, twisted into five sections each. See detailed instructions how.


Be sure to check out the main balloon twisting page for more instructions!