Rainbow Charm Bracelet
Brighten up any rainy day with a rainbow charm bracelet.
Posted by Cat Morley
About
Share
You Will Need (15 things)
- 36 x Coloured Bead(s)
- Chain
- Chain Cutter
- 16 x Jump Ring(s)
- Pliers
- Shrink Plastic
- Hole Punch
- Colouring Pencil(s)
- 7 x Eye Pin(s)
- Jewelry Clasp
- Round Nose Pliers
- Pencil(s)
- Hole Punch
- Scissors
- Needle Nose Pliers
Steps (17 steps, 60 minutes)
-
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.