DIY: Steve the Kraken

For some time already I had this idea of making an Octopus mascot out of... well, with whatever I had available. But life went on and there never seemed to be any time for it.
The beginning of this year I had the privilege of putting together my own team and that got the name Kraken and while before I was just a team member, now I was a manager. The urge to make something with my own hands for the team remained and a few weeks back I finally picked up the challenge.

After putting some thought to it, I got to work.

1. A few packs of napkins, a balloon, scissors, glue, brushes, cardboard and tape. We are good to go.
There is obviously not enough glue though.

2. First, let us assemble the legs. Cardboard and tape does the trick, Though it is time consuming. Most of legs have 4 parts with random angles.

3. As the kraken will be made of several parts, I have made a small coating of glue and paper on the legs, and putting them to dry, while also covering the balloon (body) with the same thing. 

Cats are curious and Black Clover is playing in the background.

4. After making sure everything is dry enough, the legs must be added to the body. The balloon is not too strong and the legs are heavy, so a lot of different tape is used (all this will be covered with glue and paper later anyway)

5. After several additional layers of coating (napkins and glue) it looks like a pretty neat octopus. So far so good.

6. Put it high to dry for a night.

7. Next day, when the tentacles and body were already dry enough I added additional pieces: eyes, hair, hat. All made of cardboard and tape. Covered with glue and napkins as usual. 

This too had to dry for a long time as paint would have added additional layer of liquid on top of everything.

8. Painting with acrylic paint. Took 6 hours, but was worth it. 

Let it dry.

9. About 2 days of crafting ad Voila! 

Steve the Kraken is ready to rock in the office.

Why Steve you ask? Well, we also considered Bob, but Steve sounded better.