How to Make a Plastic Straw Octopus

Here is a neat little octopus that will float!

1. Cut off the bendy part and the small area near it if you are using a bendy straw.
   
   
2. Cut off two pieces of the long part that are about 2 and a half inches long.
   
   
3. Cut 4 slits in the straw, leaving about 3/8 of an inch at the end. Repeat on the other straw.
   
   
4. Pinch the end without cuts on one of the straws and push it up into the other straw from the bottom. This forms the tentacles.
   
   
5. Take a straw piece about and inch long and flatten it. Then fold it in half twice.
   
   
6. Push the two ends of the piece you just mad through the top of the tentacles, thus making a head.
   
   
7. Finished.
   
   

• Try covering the straw in metallic tape to make an interesting look.
• Try making for spiral shaped cuts for another interesting look.
• Place them in dioramas for an ocean project.

• Be careful with scissors!
• Straws can make "paper" cuts.

• Straw
• Scissors