Most of the time when I made my first set of puppets, it was a particular material that inspired me. This jellyfish was inspired by a pack of translucent papers I discovered at Officeworks. I had seen this patterned paper along with the ones I used for the turtle shadow puppet and immediately knew what I would do with them.

• Translucent patterned paper

• Layers cut and overlaid to create different strengths of colours and depth

• Laminated for durability

• Two rods are detachable

• String joints

• 18cm (7.1 inches) from side to side (tentacles as wide as they stretch), 18.5cm (7.3 inches) from top of head to bottom of longest tentacle