@VioletThePurple
Can you get two buckets and a stool or chair? If you can, fill one bucket with water then take everything outdoors. Put the bucket filled with water on the stool/chair, the empty bucket on the ground next to it, and practise starting the siphon. If you have only one bucket, fill that with water and have the set up somewhere it doesn't matter if water goes everywhere out of the other end.
I've had two different types if siphon which both look like your photo. One had a little flap of blue plastic inside the blue bit, the other didn't. Shake the part with the blue bit next to your ear - if it makes a bit of a rattling sound it has the little fap, if it's silent it doesn't.
What the little flap does is stop the water flowing back down the tube while you are shaking it. The first shake pushes water past the blue bit and the flap keeps it there; the second shake pushes more water through the blue bit and so on. Once the water flows over the top of the loop of the bendy tubing, gravity then pulls water through the whole thing and you can stop shaking. The wide bit must be kept under water the whole time during shaking and once the siphon starts. If air gets into it, the siphon will stop.
Once the water is flowing, you poke the wide end into the gravel and watch the mess flowing out. If the gravel starts to go unto the wide bit, lift it just above the gravel and it will fall out.
If yours does not have the little flap, tell us as you have to start the siphon differently.