When you are done with this project it is an approximately 5 inch (12 cm) octopus.
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need:
· Two different colors of yarn
· Small ball of cotton
· Glue
· Wiggle eyes
· Felt, optional
· Ruler
· Scissors
· Glue
How To Make It:
1. Cut 24 (12 inch or 30 cm) long pieces of yarn (yarn color number 1).
2. Lie the yarn on a flat surface so that it looks like the spokes of a wheel, and so that the yarn intersects with each other in the center of the wheel.
3. Put a small ball of cotton, a little bigger than the size of a ping-pong ball in the center of the wheel.
4. Gather up the pieces of yarn around the cotton and tie them with a piece of an other color of yarn (yarn color number 2).
5. Separate the yarn into groups of three, and braid them. Tie each braid at the end with a piece of yarn color number 2. You should then end up with 8 braids.
6. Glue two googly eyes onto the yarn surrounding the ball of cotton.
7. Use either yarn or felt to make a mouth for your octopus and glue it on.
8. Now enjoy your yarn octopus!
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