Today Lara made a bag charm. No knowing exactly what supplies she would need, I bought her a kit from Spoilt Rotten Beads. It cost £3.50.
All the supplies needed to make the charm came in the kit. The only extras needed were tools - pliers and cutters.
The kit was probably intended to be made and given to a teacher and included an apple charm but Lara decided to replace this with a dog charm that we already had.
After a little guidance Lara set to making the bag charm. Auntie Juliet would have been proud!
The finished bag charm was lovely.
Today Lara and I made pendants using used drink can ring pulls. We used this You Tube video but there are many others on the Internet.
We started off with some ring pulls which I had been collecting over the summer and some suede twine (ribbon could also be used).
To create the pendant we overlapped 6 ring pulls and threaded the twine in and out of the holes to join them together following the instructions in the video.
The finished pendant was quite effective.
In addition to wearing it around your neck Lara thought it would also look good as a headband ....
... or a hairband.
Wednesday's craft came from Crafty Kids 101 blog (found on Pinterest) Lara made tubular bracelets from clear acrylic tube and beads.
I bought clear acrylic tubing in two different diameters (8mm and 5mm) from Ebay and we raided Lara's bead box for some beads that would fit inside the 8mm tube. 1m of each diameter of tubing on Ebay cost approx £1.99 pm and made 4 bracelets.
Beads were fed into the 8mm tube and then the ends were joined by pushing a 1" piece of the 5mm tube into each end. We could have filled the tube with beads or hundreds and thousands or glitter or anything small enough to fit inside.
Today's summer holiday craft was a jewellery project. A few months ago I bought a Shambala Bracelet kit online and so today Lara had a go at making it.
She struggled at first to follow the instructions, but after checking a video on You Tube she quickly got the hang of it.
The finished bracelet.
She enjoyed making the bracelet so much and hasn't taken it off since finishing it so I've ordered another kit (all blue) so she can make one again some time .... and perhaps I might get to make one too.
( Linda has asked where I ordered the bracelet kits from - I ordered from Bijoux By Me. 2 kits currently cost £7 + p&p in their summer sale.)
