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1. 

   

   Lay out seven small dishes (jar lids work well) and place red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet coloured beads in to each. Choose a selection of different shapes and sizes of beads, including dangly beads and charms.

2. 

   

   Cut a length of chain long enough to fit around your wrist loosely twice and then leave a little extra.




3. 

   

   Fold the chain in half, leaving a longer tail on one end, attach a jump ring through the end of the chain and where it meets on the bottom strand (leaving the tail to hang. Attach a jewellery clasp to the jump ring.

4. 

   

   Attach a jump ring to the middle of the chain at the other end.




5. 

   

   Take your red dish of beads, two jump rings and an eye pin.

6. 

   

   Take the eye pin and slide on three red beads, and open up a jump ring and slip on two charms or dangly beads.

7. 

   

   Slip the jump ring to the bottom of the eye pin and close the jump ring.

8. 

   

   Use a pair of jewellery plier to bend the top of the eye pin at a 90' angle. Use wire cutters to trim the wire, so that there's just enough left to make a loop.

9. 

   

   Use a pair of round nose pliers to bend the wire in to a loop. Leave the loop part open.

10. 

    

    Slip the loop on to the start of the chain and close the loop.

11. 

    

    Open the second jump ring and slip on another red charm. Slip the jump ring on to the top chain of the bracelet and close.

12. 

    

    Continue along using the orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet beads.

13. 

    

    Draw a rainbow on to shrink plastic using a permanent marker to draw the outline and coloured pencils to colour it in.

14. 

    

    Cut the rainbow out and punch a hole in the top center of it. Colour the back of the rainbow with black marker pen.

15. 

    

    Shrink the rainbow in an oven and then colour in the edges with black marker pen.

16. 

    

    Open another jump ring, slip it through the hole on the rainbow and then attach to the dangly tail end of the chain.

17. 

    

    Your charm bracelet is now ready to wear.

By Michi

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Jocelyn A.

23 Sep 00:55

wow. I have a friend who is gay and he loves when i make him bracelets and other rainbow colored things. I think he'll love this most!

Paige R.

24 Sep 01:08

I love this bracelet! Where do you find all of your cute plastic charms? I've had a hard time finding cute and inexpensive plastic charms...

northernstar

24 Sep 01:38

I am a HUGE rainbow fan!! love having them in my accessories :) Such a cool bracelet :D

Nuhbe .

27 Sep 18:42

Really funny bracelet!!

miquette

30 Sep 21:10

this is so cute! i have some shrink plastic and still not used it yet! i can't wait to try it out the colours on it look great when it's cooked!

Elizabeth W.

11 Oct 22:08

Were did you find the charms, i can never find any cute beads like that.

Cat Morley

29 Nov 15:25

I actually got most of those beads in the Dollar Store, while on holiday in Canada. I usually struggle to find nice beads too!

Lola

17 Dec 13:45

live is just all about the colours in it

love this ;D

x

cécile C.

29 Dec 19:05

I love this bracelet and i love rainbow.

Janet

31 Dec 01:36

Awesome where did you get all these awesome charms???
I can't ever find any like these?
help?

Cat Morley

31 Dec 17:03

Most of them are from the Dollar store in Canada, Janet. I made the rainbow charm from shrink plastic.

Janet

31 Dec 17:37

Thanks, but where in canada??
And which dollar store?

Stephanie N.

18 Jan 18:42

This is so cute =D Where do you find the shrink plastic? This is adorable!

Michi

01 Mar 17:13

This is so colorful and creative!

molly g

26 May 11:16

how cute

Popcorn?

20 Jun 15:21

totally awesome ^_^

Ezme

06 Jul 13:22

so me! so bright!

Nicky Love

01 Aug 14:47

aaaaaaaaaaaah I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

purplebutterflywings

21 Aug 02:02

so cute!!!!!!!!!!!! i love rainbows...actually, i just made hair clips out of shrink plastic, but they were cupcakes and unicorns!

..>¡Åñ∂®îåñå "Pü∂∂îñg"!<..

26 Jan 15:06

Very nice! I love all stuff rainbow... I'm going to try and make one, but... i don't have that many of colourful charms... =P

♥ R.a.c.h.e.l. ♥

23 Jun 19:57

that is so cute and colorful!!!

♥ R.a.c.h.e.l. ♥

07 Sep 18:51

incredibly cute!!!

RADGina

05 Nov 23:32

wow this is supper rad...lmao so cool!

Posted By:
Cat Morley »
September 23, 2007 00:28

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