Valentine’s Day is coming up, and for school aged kids that means exchanging Valentine’s with friends! This year, we did an easy Valentine’s Day craft for kids that Layla came up with recently. We had a lot of leftover pipe cleaners from previous crafting and she wanted to do something with them. I said how about bracelets? We headed to Michael’s and she picked out the pony beads and alphabet beads that you see in this post! Let’s get started!
What supplies do I need to make beaded pipe cleaner bracelets?
These bracelets take minimal supplies and the mess is nonexistent! To make this easy Valentine’s Day craft (or anytime craft really) for kids you need the following:
- Pipe cleaners (or the plastic bead bracelets by Creatology)
- Alphabet Pony Beads
- Assorted color Pony Beads
- Plastic Bead Bracelets by Creatology
These are the plastic bead bracelets by Creatology that I don’t recommend…Pipe cleaners work better.
How to make DIY beaded friendship bracelets
We did this on the floor in Layla’s room because it was easy to spread the beads out on her rug, and start sliding them onto pipe cleaners.
If using the pipe cleaners, you will need about 18 pony beads, and one alphabet letter bead.
NOTE: The pipe cleaner version worked best for us. We have found that the plastic bracelets don’t stay snapped together.
- Slide 9 beads onto the pipe cleaner
- Then slide on an alphabet letter bead
- Next slide on 9 more pony beads
- Loosely twist the two ends of the pipe cleaners together creating a full circle (pictured below)…this way it can easily be adjusted to fit wrist
If using the plastic bead bracelets by Creatology, you will need 20 pony beads, and 1 alphabet bead.
- Slide 10 beads onto the plastic
- Then slide on an alphabet letter bead
- Next slide on 10 more pony beads
- Snap the bracelet closed to keep beads from falling off.
Where to find the “I have to hand it to you printable”
I did a quick search on Pinterest and found this adorable printable on another blog that goes perfectly with this easy Valentine’s Day craft!
Want another easy kid project? Check out this post on how to create a pollinator friendly garden with kids!
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