DIY Doll Craft Yarn Octopus

Throw a theme party under the sea? These dolls octopus DIY thread would make the perfect favor for your little guests. Better yet, have fun entering development and station set up a "make your own octopus" in his party.

If you want to save time, you can pre-wrap and tie balls of yarn together (see step 1-3). Your guests simply braid and decorate. They are sure to love making their own octopus.

Supplies:

Styrofoam balls (I used 3 balls of an inch)

thread

Movable eye (I used 15mm)

scissors

hot glue

Board or board of 24 inches

Instructions:

 Step 1: Wrap the middle of a skein of yarn around a 24 inch board or cardboard. Wrap the whole skein of two dolls or if you are using a Styrofoam ball over 3 inches

 Step 2: Cut the thread off the board at both ends of the table, so you have 2 batteries of thread about 24 inches long. If you use only half a skein, combine the batteries. If you wrapped the whole skein of yarn and making two dolls, each thread stack is a doll.

Step 3: From your battery, remove 2 pieces of wool. With the first piece, tie the yarn bunch together at the top to form hair. You can cut the long hair at all, once it is knit together.

 Step 4: Place a Styrofoam ball in the middle of the yarn and soft yarn wrapped around the ball, so there is no white projection. Take the second piece of wire that you removed from the stack, wrap and tie around the ball under the ball.

Step 5: separate thread into 8 pieces and braid each piece with a coordinating color thread to tie the ends. Trim the ends so that they are all the same length

 Step 6: Attach wiggle eyes yarn wrapped Styrofoam ball with a glue gun. You can leave your wrist octopus plain or add other embellishments such as hats, ties, etc.

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