Take a Gold Cakeboard and pierce 2 holes in the centre, then take a piece of a 260Q and pull through the holes coming to the Gold side.  Now using the Dual Split Second Sizer with Double Bubble Outlet inflate a cluster of 4 balloons each being a 3.5” for the Insider Black and 4.5” for the Diamond Clear outsider balloons, secure the cluster to the Cakeboard using the piece of 260Q

Inflate with air using the Dual Split Second Sizer an 11” Gold sized to about 8” and tie into the cluster secured to the base in Step 1, then inflate a 5” Black sized to 2.5” tie tightly and cut of the remaining neck below the knot – now glue onto the front of the Gold as his nose, draw on two eyes and the mouth using Black Posca Pen.

Take a Black 260Q and inflate with the Dual Split Second Sizer 2/3rds of the way, tie and cut off the neck.  Then make a 1” bubble, followed by a 2” loop twist, move along the balloon 6” and twist.  Push the air along the balloon a few inches and then tuck this uninflated area into the cluster under the head (see Pic) now move along the balloon 6” and add a twist, make a 2” loop , and end with a 1” bubble – tie and remove any remaining latex to complete the arms. 

For the Hat you can either place on a bought top hat or make one like this design has from 260Q Weaving. 

To weave your hat start by inflating all 5 x 260Q Blacks just over ½ way and tie together so you are forming a cluster of 5 x 260Q’s.  The with one of them make 2 x 1” pinch twists in the centre and place one above and one below all 5 spokes to hold them in place.   Now start the process by taking one spoke and move down 3” then make a twist now turn this spoke to the right and move along 3”, hold this whilst you get the second spoke (next door to the first) and move down that 3” then twist – now add the first spoke at the second twist (where your holding) and twist this into the second spoke twist (seem pic for ref) now you simply repeat this moving along for the 3rd, 4th and 5th spoke until you come back to the start, which you twist the balloon back into, giving you a full circle which should sit flat.   Now with each spoke place a 1” Bubble coming from it which will change the direction of the spokes ready for you to work down the sides of the hat, now continue the process of working layers around the spokes in the same way as you did the first, the only difference is that when making the bubbles downwards instead of leaving a 3” bubble you only want to leave a 1” bubble, but with the spoke going around you need to keep that at around 3” (remember to see pic for ref) for each layer you bring around the hat you also need to change spokes so one spoke gets used per layer or you’ll run out of balloon (if this happens simply tie in another in its place). You need to create 3 layers going down on the hat before adding another pinch twist to each spoke to again change the direction so that the spokes face outwards for the rim of the hat, and now complete the rim with two last layers this time making the out spokes slightly bigger and finishing with a pinch twist at the end of each spoke to complete the hat.

Material List:
6 x 5” Black
13 x 260Q Black
3 x 260Q Gold
1 x 16” Gold
1 x 11” Gold
4 x 5” Diamond Clear
8 x 16” Diamond Clear
8 x 11” Top Hat Print

Equipment List:
Posca Pen
Cake Board
Nylon Line
Dual Split Second Sizer
Quick Switch 
Double Bubble Outlet
Helium and Nitrogen