We are going to make sea monster
in a shape of a jellyfish of octopus.
Inflate balloon leaving about two
three inch flat tail.
Squeeze the balloon to make it soft.
Pump the air to the end of the flat tail.
We are going to use four balloons
uh... to make I would say
medium size sculpture.
It is the Halloween season.
Orange and black preferable colors
for this occasion.
Fold the balloon in half.
Mark the spot.
Twist the bubble.
We have made two tentacles.
We can use one balloon
per tentacle
to make larger size sculptures.
Then it would take ten balloons to make it.
Well, if you work with 160's
then you can use one balloon to make
four tentacles.
We have to twist all balloons
in the same way.
And lock all balloons in the center
in one lock twist.
In this example
I twist and lock all balloons
one by one.
You can speed it up.
Just hold all four balloons in one hand
at the middle
to twist and lock them all
in one move.
Try to make all tentacles of the same size.
Slight difference,
upto one inch,
in size of tentacles
will be not really noticable
when we are done with this sculpture.
Alright.
Here we have connected all
eight tentacles.
The sculpture looks like...hhm,
some kind of star
at this point.
Our next step various.
It depends on what we want to make.
Suppose we want to make a jellyfish.
Put our sculpture aside for now.
Get a flat balloon of any color.
And tie both ends of the flat balloon
in one knot.
Put your hand through the loop
of the flat balloon.
Hold the sculpture at the center
in the hand with...
with the flat balloon on it.
Use your other hand
to roll the flat balloon
down the sculpture.
I place the flat balloon
about one third or
on fourth of the length of the sculpture
down from the center.
You can use appropriate size rubber band
instead of the flat balloon.
The only purpose of the band is to
keep all bubbles together.
Here is the side view.
The loose ends of balloons
represent tentacles.
Let's shape them.
Basically I threefold each tentacle.
It is very simple.
As you can see it.
The top part of the sculpture
represents the head
or the body of the jellyfish.
I don't know the proper name for it.
So, what do you call it?
A belly-head?!
I guess something like that.
Okey.
Here I have to shape a couple more tentacles.
And then we are going to decorate
the top part of the sculpture.
Ahh...we can use the simplest makeup.
Yes, a permanent black marker.
It will do the magic.
Just draw the eyes.
Here, I am shaping the last tentacle.
That's it.
Congratulations.
We have made the jellyfish.
Instead of using a permanent black marker
for decoration.
We can use a spare balloon
to make the eyes.
Here I am going to use a black balloon.
Actually we need just a couple inch piece of balloon.
Not entire balloon.
Twist a chain of two soft one inch bubbles.
Now we have to lock
all ends of two bubbles
in one lock twist.
You can use scissors to cut off the rest of the balloon.
Or do it with your fingers.
It's up to you.
We have made the eyeballs.
Okey.
Here we chose any bubble
in the upper part of the sculpture.
Twist a bubble.
I made it about five inch.
Right here we attach the eyeballs.
Once again,
we fix all bubbles in proper positions.
Congratulations.
We have made the sea monster.
That's the front view.
Here is the bottom view.
The side view
and the top view.
Now we are going to use the same sculpture
to make a bit different sea monster.
Remove the rubber band.
Instead of rubber band
we twist bubbles
and lock them together.
We can twist bubbles one by one
or in bunch.
It is possible to twist
all eight bubbles
in one move.
In this example I twist and lock three bubbles
in one move.
Now I am going to twist and lock
all other bubbles one by one.
Sculpture made in this way
has more distinguished head
then the previous sculpture.
I am not really sure if this sculpture
looks like an octopus.
Well, at least it has the same number
of tentacles as all octopus
supposes to have.
Eight tentacles.
Here we have two more bubbles to twist
before we will be done
with this sea monster.
Most certainly,
twisting all bubbles in one move
ahh...saves a lot of time.
It's not easy to hold eight balloons
in one hand.
But, no one say that you have to hold balloons
only in your hands.
We can use our entire body for this purpose.
Any time I have to twist big number of balloons
at once,
I hold them under my armpit or
between legs.
Okey.
Congratulations,
we have made the sea monster.
Let's fix all bubbles in
proper positions.
Previously we have made the eyes and
have already shaped the tentacles as well.
So, there is no much left to do,
but enjoy the sculpture.
Here is the front view.
The side view.
The back view.
And the bottom view.
Here is the different color
sea monster.
I made it blue
with eight or seven eyes.
I use a permanent black marker
to draw the eyes in this example.
In my experience,
little kids love to play with
this kind of toys.
So, I really suggest you
give it a try.
Have fun and happy twisting :)