I'm not going to pretend these are anything other than silly, but I absolutely adore them.  
 
Polymer clay octopuses, (canes produced by ikandyclay on etsy) are hand sculpted, set, and then protected with a resin layer to increase hold.
 
As these are clay, you don't want to be too abusive to the tentacles but they should take standard wear and tear pretty well!
 
Lead/nickel free.