I opted to use bead spacers in between the pins because it takes a lot of pins to make one bracelet without them. The bracelets look beautiful, but we had too many other things to do at the meeting.
Materials & Tools
Safety pins (#2 work well)
Beads –small seed-beads for the pins
Beads – larger ones for spacing (optional if
you’re not going to use spacers)
Elastic cord (thick cord works better)
Clothes pin
Scissors
Needle nose pliers
Step
1: Make A LOT of beaded pins. Each girl will need at least 20 if using
spacer beads.
Open a safety pin and thread as many beads
on it as you can. Leave enough room to
close the pin. Fasten the pin & use
the pliers to close the top so it doesn’t open accidentally later on. (ouch!)
Step
2: Make your bracelet.
For a Brownie-sized bracelet, cut two 10-12”
pieces of elastic cord. Line them up
evenly and loosely tie one end together, or use a clothespin to
secure. (This is just temporary so the
pins don’t fall off as you string them together.)
Step
3: String the pins onto the bracelet.
Each girl should pick at least 20 pins out
of the bag. String one cord through the
head of the pin, and the other cord through the tail. String a spacer bead onto each cord. String another pin onto the cords, but this
time, reverse the pin so that the pins alternate head to tail. Make sure the bead sides are all facing up!
Step
4: Finish the bracelet.
Once the bracelet is long enough (one
brownie-sized bracelet with bead spacers takes at least 20 pins), bring the
bracelet together to form a circle. This
can be tricky, because you don’t want the pins to fall off the cords. Untie the knot from step 2 (if applicable)
and tie the top cords together & the bottom cords together.
