NOTE: A PRINTABLE VERSION OF THIS CRAFT IS AVAILABLE AT THE END To make this cardboard tube jellyfish you will need: You can also find some outlets that cater to fishermen, and have materials at very good prices. Places like:

Use scissors to cut slits up the length of the tube. Bend the tentacles of the jellyfish by pushing the ends of the tube into your palm. Cut a piece of chenille stem about 4-inches long. Bend it in half to create a loop and twist the open ends together. Insert those twisted ends into the top of the jellyfish’s head to make a hanger. Glue the googly eyes on the front of the half-ball. Foam tubes are for everyday use and they are often made of protective materials such as aluminum, polyurethane, and other non-degradable materials. Some foam tubes are also useful for everyday use because they are light and durable, and others are sturdy and lightweight. foam tubes crafts for kids GJ: the process of trying to find an organic and natural shape of a line that makes it look like a living creature. I’m excited when things are coming out the way I imagined them. If you have been following the Scandinavian trend of tying realistic shrimp flies during the last few years, you will have seen the evolving of Danish Kern Lund's Perfect Leo Shrimp into a wealth of different imitative shrimp patterns. They all have one thing in common: translucent and very realistic legs, usually made from a thin rubbery elastic cord. GREEM JEONG (GJ): I searched and tested a lot to discover uncommon material. I thought maybe the secondary material could be transformed into the main thing.

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It's also available in a huge number of colors, not only various translucent hues, but also solid colors of all kinds, useful for wrapping as nymph bodies or using as rib for larger flies. If you then go to a fabric store and browse through their shelves, you may find rolls of fake fur, 3-5 feet or 100-150 centimeters wide and sold by the meter or yard. A meter or a yard will most likely be about 20 - sometimes up to 40-50 USD for the most expensive types - and from that you can cut a couple of dozen flyshop size patches, giving you a significantly lower price per square inch. If you look in large and well assorted shops or you search online, you will be able to find not only endless colors and color mixes, but also different qualities, hair lengths, hair types and not least imitation patterns like silver fox, husky, coyote, dalmatian or lynx, just to name a few.

Look at examples like Squirmy Wormy legs. The Squirmy Wormy has become synonymous with a fly made of a very soft, colorful, rubbery material. An online search for Squrimy Wormy leads to flies only, and add the word material and you will be lead to bags of bags twenty pieces sold at 3-4-5 USD. But look for the right name and magic happens. The price drops to a dollar for hundreds of pieces. See the chapter below for more details. Talking about foam will naturally lead to craft foam, which is probably one of the best known alternatives to fly tying specific materials. These foam sheets are widely available, and even though their fly tying counterparts aren't as prohibitively expensive as with the cylindrical foam, it's still more expensive to buy your foam in a fly shop compared to a craft or hobby store. Depending on the fly size, you want chain with a bead diameter from about 2 millimeters or less than 1/8th of an inch and up to maybe 5 millimeters or less than 1/4 of an inch for really large flies.

Jann's Netcraft - Another store for DIY anglers with low prices and a large selection of fly tying materials.

One thing that's common for most of the is a pretty high price. You typically buy 10-20 eyes at a time depending on the size, and prices are typically 3-5 dollars per bag. Since you use two eyes per fly, you can eat through a bag in one sitting.Micro fibbets are generally sold in small bunches holding a few hundred, enough for many, many flies. DESIGNBOOM (DB): HOW DID YOU DISCOVER SILICONE FOAM TUBES, WHICH WERE ‘HIDDEN’ CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL (USED FOR INSULATION – TO PROTECT WIRES AND PIPES, PARTS OF A BUILDING OR MACHINE)? The softer, closed cell foams, often known as Plastazote or Evazote, are typically safer bets for fly tying, but not as widely available as the common craft foam.