How to Make a Safety Pin Bracelet
Make a colourful bracelet using safety pins, seed beads, and elastic cord! This fun and easy craft is perfect for Scouts, summer camp, and anyone who loves creating their own accessories.
Yield: 1 beaded bracelet
Cost: $2
Equipment
Materials
- Safety pins (1 inch)
- Seed beads (7 colours; 2mm)
- Elastic beading cord
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the beaded safety pins
- You'll need 80 to 90 safety pins to make your bracelet, as well as seed beads in a variety of colours.
- Open a safety pin.
- Add seed beads to the pin, filling it until there's only a small bit left (just enough room to close the safety pin).
- Close the safety pin.
- Repeat with a different colour of beads.
- Then repeat with 4 other colours -- or more, if you'd like.We decided to use 6 rainbow colours to create a patterned bracelet.
- Repeat, filling more pins with beads.You'll need between 13 and 15 of each colour to make a rainbow bracelet.
Step 3: Thread the safety pins onto cord
- Cut a piece of elastic jewelry cord to be 10 inches long.
- Attach one of the pins (in your first colour -- pink, for us) to the string, using the hole in the top of the pin.
- Add a second pin (in the same colour), using the circle at the bottom of the pin.It's important to make sure the beads are facing the same way when you add each pin (for example, always facing up, or always facing down).
- Now switch to the second colour in your pattern (light orange, for us), and attach this one through the top of the pin.
- Add a second orange pin in the opposite direction. Then repeat, adding 2 of each colour in the pattern.
- Slide the rest of the pins onto the cord, continuing to repeat the pattern and alternating which side you add.
Step 4: Add another cord and finish the bracelet
- Cut another 10 inch piece of elastic jewelry cord.
- Slide the cord through the opposite side of the pins, attaching them one by one.
- Bring the cord ends together and tie in a triple or quadruple knot. Repeat with the second cord.
- Cut off the excess cord, near the knots.
- Your safety pin bracelet is complete!
Notes
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