![]() ![]() I decide to only do 5 of the tentacles at this point, since I didn’t want the back ones to get in the way of the head. Tape it up so that it holds the correct form for each tentacle. To make the tentacles, take scrap paper and twist and crumple it up into the general shape you want. I also ended up chopping off some of the end of the head to make it a slightly different shape. NOTE: In the end, I never did the light-up head idea, so if I were to re-do this project I’d probably just form the body shape out of crumpled up paper and tape, like I do with the tentacles. So I found some scrap wire in my craft drawer, and sorta looped it around to make the general shape of the bottom of the octopus, covered it in tape, then paper mached the whole thing. So I figured the body base and the head had to be hollow. When I was first starting out, my intention was for the octopus head to be able to have a light on the inside so that it sorta glowed through it’s head. But someone on Pinterest credited a Tasha Vasilek with it, so I’m going to do that too and hope I’m right. It was really hard to figure out how to credit this artist, as I could only ever find the image by itself, not set into some other page with description. NOTE: Again, the picture below is NOT my finished octopus (I wish), it’s a professional sculpture. Very advanced, but it was a good shape to start with. I started searching around the internet for good octopus sculptures to base this off of (you can see some of my attempts in my Halloween Craft DIY Pinterest board here), and finally found the one you see below, made by a proper artist person out of who knows what. How to Make an Octopus out of Paper MacheĪt first I had a bit of an interesting time figuring out how to make an octopus out of paper mache, as it’s a bit more of a complicated shape than I’d imagined in my mind, and from how I drew it. For some reason I decided that an octopus craft was in order-a creepy, albino, paper mache octopus, to be exact. I’m going to show you how to make this craft at home below.As a notorious Halloween craft junkie, I’m always looking for new things to make to decorate my house with, come October. You just want to thin it a bit, not dilute it completely.Īre you ready to try a Mod Podge paper mache project? It couldn’t be any easier. If it’s super duper thick, you can pour some into a separate container and add a touch of water. First I shake the bottle, then I wet the brush and dip it into the Podge (rather than just dipping a dry brush in). If your Mod Podge is thick, I do a few things. I highly recommend it for adult projects especially, if not for all of your projects. Plus you don’t have to worry about yellowing or crusting or falling apart like you do with the flour and water combo. The Podge can also be used to seal the paint on the newspaper (if you choose to paint). Well, the nice thing about using Mod Podge to make paper mache is that you can use it directly from the bottle. But why would you want to do that instead? So that you don’t have to mix the ingredients and deal with the chunky water. Well it’s not that they’ve changed that much, but I’m here to show you how to make Mod Podge paper mache. There was a lot of stirring a chunky liquid (because the flour never fully dissolved) and then slapping it onto newspaper. ![]() ![]() I don’t know if it’s an 80s thing or if kids are still doing it today, but there was a lot of paste making with flour and water. I don’t know about you, but paper mache played a large part in my childhood art classes. ![]()
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