Want to help out with the decorations?

Kan Min Lin   |  General  |  26. Mar 08:34

Participate with decorations of Vikingskipet by making your own jellyfishes! Follow this walkthrough and do add your own suggestions on the way...

What you need to make the jellyfishes:

  • Thin thin sheets of paper, in different colours
  • Plastic bags in different colours
  • Glue
  • Electrical tape
  • Steel wire
  • Scissors
  • Leatherman (or some kind of multi-tool)
  • Needle and thread

 

STEP ONE

Take the steel wire and measure up the length you need (small jelly: 90 cm, big jelly: 170 cm).

In this walkthrough I'm making the small one.

STEP TWO

Make a circle at the end of the wire and secure it, the circle should be about 14 cm in diameter. Make a spiral (about 5 cm tall), and fasten the end the same way as you did the bottom.

STEP THREE

Take a plastic bag, I used an orange plastic bag for this walkthrough, but you can use any colours in the orange, red and blue theme. Cut out a sheet so it covers your spiral (it's always better with more than less when it comes to this).

STEP FOUR

Put glue all around the spiral. Then put the plastic bag over the spiral, the bag will stick to the glue. And remember, better with more than less, this also counts when it comes to glue.

The spiral looks like this when you've glued the bag to the spiral:

STEP FIVE

As you can see, there's a bit much plastic bag on the spiral. Cut it off.

STEP SIX

Take the leftovers and cut them so they look more like a tentacle. We can use this.

Cut out different kinds of sizes and colours for tentacles.

STEP SEVEN

Now it's time to glue the tentacles to the jelly body. Minimum ten tentacles, 15 is a good bunch. Put glue at one end at the tentacle and glue it to the inside rim of the body.

 

STEP EIGHT




Now it's time to make a hanging suspender. Cut a hole at the top
of the jelly.

Take your needle and thread, stick it through the plastic next to the steel wire and out on the other side, be careful so you don't pull the thread all the way through. Repeat this on the other side of the hole, remember; don't pull the thread all the way through.

When you have removed the needle, you should have a W, like in the picture. Make a knot on the top of the threads to bind them together.


DONE!

Idea and photos: Adriane Winter, Event:Arena

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