Sea Monster Jellyfish Octopus Balloon Animals

Balloon twisting video instruction by Langerman www.fewdoit.com (author reserved no rights) public domain dedication.

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 :)