12-08-2009, 11:32 PM
Seed Bead Tube Bracelet
Craft supplies:
Clear plastic tubing, used or new (this type of transparent tubing is commonly sold in pet stores or hardware stores to use with fish tank filters and pumps)
Seed Beads
Hot Glue
Transparent Tape
Plastic Tube Bracelet Instructions:
1. If you are using tubing that has already been used for a fish tank, make sure you wash and dry the tube thoroughly before beginning this craft project.
2. Cut the tubing to fit your wrist or ankle, but do keep in mind that the finished bracelet must also fit over your hand or foot as well.
3. Tape over one end of the tube.
4. Start filling the tube with different colors of seed beads, so you make different colored sections. You can make a pattern by repeating the colors; for instance, you could make a patriotic bracelet in repeated sections of red, white and blue beads...(or red and white for Canada Day) Continue repeating the colored beads until you get to the end of the tube.
5. Carefully remove the tape, making sure that you hold both ends of the tube upwards so the beads don't fall out. Ask an adult to put a little bit of hot glue on the ends and hold them closed until the glue dries.
6. Wrap clear tape around the join so that if the hot glue comes apart, the bracelet will still stay together.
Craft supplies:
Clear plastic tubing, used or new (this type of transparent tubing is commonly sold in pet stores or hardware stores to use with fish tank filters and pumps)
Seed Beads
Hot Glue
Transparent Tape
Plastic Tube Bracelet Instructions:
1. If you are using tubing that has already been used for a fish tank, make sure you wash and dry the tube thoroughly before beginning this craft project.
2. Cut the tubing to fit your wrist or ankle, but do keep in mind that the finished bracelet must also fit over your hand or foot as well.
3. Tape over one end of the tube.
4. Start filling the tube with different colors of seed beads, so you make different colored sections. You can make a pattern by repeating the colors; for instance, you could make a patriotic bracelet in repeated sections of red, white and blue beads...(or red and white for Canada Day) Continue repeating the colored beads until you get to the end of the tube.
5. Carefully remove the tape, making sure that you hold both ends of the tube upwards so the beads don't fall out. Ask an adult to put a little bit of hot glue on the ends and hold them closed until the glue dries.
6. Wrap clear tape around the join so that if the hot glue comes apart, the bracelet will still stay together.