My daughter has landed the role of Ursula in her school's production of "The Little Mermaid".
And guess who has to make her costume? Me, of course.
Ursula is an octopus, or maybe a squid. She's also evil. And she needs to have big, somewhat flexible tentacles - eight of them I guess. Apparently when Ursula is on stage, few other characters are, so she her costume can be LARGE.
Any ideas how I might do this? If I make eight big stuffed things, it will become quite heavy! I'm thinking that I need to have some sort of wire inside the tentacles... I'm also thinking of those spiral Santa hats, if I could put that type of wire - or plastic - inside the tentacles, they might move all on their own, which would be either comical or creepy. But I don't know what kind of plastic/wire that would be.
Not being a wire/plastic expert, does anyone know where I could look or what I should be looking for?