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My daughter came to me one day and said she saw these really cool bracelets made from safety pins and beads. As luck would have it, I had just seen one as well so I promised to make her one. She wanted one made with smaller pins than the one she had seen, so I bought 3/4″ safety pins for mine.
Notes: Make sure you do the glue step, don’t skip it. I was walking through WalMart and felt something poking me. I discovered that two pins on my bracelet had come open, all the beads had fallen off, and then were stabbing me as I walked. Also, made sure you get cord that will fit properly through the safety pin head and bottom. I used elastic beading cord.
Hint: When working with small pins and beads like these, be patient. Dipping the ends of the pins in glue would be rather difficult while holding the beads on, so use a toothpick to add a dot instead.
Safety Pin Bracelet
printable version
3/4″ safety pins
Elastic beading cord
Seed beads
White craft glue
Toothpick
Put some glue on a paper plate, about the size of a quarter.
Open a safety pin and thread as many seed beads on as you can, leaving enough room to close the pin. Dip toothpick into the glue and use it to add a dot of glue to the end of the pin, then fasten. Continue this process until you have enough pins for your bracelet.
Cut two pieces of elastic beading cord, about 12″ long each. Line them up evenly and loosely tie together at the end. This is just temporary so that your pins don’t fall off the other end as you thread them on.
Thread one of the cords through the head of a pin, then the other cord through the bottom of the pin. To ad the second pin, reverse it, so that your pins alternate, top, bottom, top, bottom. Be sure that the beads are all on the same side as you work or you’ll end up taking a bunch of pins off and starting over (trust me on this ha ha!).
When you have enough pins to create your bracelet, remove the knot from the tied end. Bring the bracelet together to create a circle.
Tie the top cords together and the bottom cords together. Trim all but about two inches off the cords. Tuck remaining cord into the underside of the pins and add a little bit of glue. Let dry.
More you might like from me:
Make Tie Dye Wall Letters
Ladybug Baseball Hat
Decoupage Light Bulb Birds
More cool stuff from the interwebs:
Pony Bead Safety Pin Bracelet – from Making Friends
Making Beaded Safety Pins – from Family Crafts at About.com
Safety Pin Belt – from …love Maegan
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hi amanda– great craft idea… you are such a good mom to just dive in and make it happen for your daughter!
very cute bracelet!! I have 2 girls that would love to make these! Thanks!
My daughter will LOVE this! Thanks for the tip on glueing the pins closed. I probably would have forgotten that step. Can't wait to make this!!!
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Great idea! So cute! Found your blog from Metamorphosis Monday. I'm your newest follower!
Amanda
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Amanda,
Such a cute bracelet…thanks for sharing it!
Blessings,
Linda
Ha this totally takes me back…. we use to wear beaded safty pins on our shoelaces. :) Fun bracelet!
I'm with Wendy! I remember making these and calling them friendship bracelets – each bead color stood for something, but I can't remember what…
How fun. We used to make these when I was in elementary school. I'd almost forgotten them. Now I have a fun idea to do with my daughter. Thank you.
Hi Amanda, I've been wanting to make these for years! Maybe with your help I'll get to it…a great project for a group of girls! Thanks for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Om Gosh! It brings back memories of making pin and string bracelets that I had forgotten about! I'll have to share these with my daughter!
This is great, thanks for the tutorial! And thanks for linking up to Finished for Friday.
Thanks for all of your kind comments!
Love the idea, I can finally have a bracelet small enough for my wrist!!
I would so be bleeding by the end of this project! I can't even operate my glue gun without getting injured! What a cute bracelet.
awe, this is adorable and so reminds me of when I was a kid. We all had em! …and thanks for the mention ;) Happy Weekend!
Thanks Nan!
Chica – LOL! I burn myself with my glue gun all the time too. Occupational hazard??
Thanks Maegan!
i like your bracelets (and reading ….books take me places)
Thank you! ;)
sweet and it is verey pretty but i do not have safety pins have any bracelets out have paper clips i can make
you know, i made i lot of these when i was a kid :) maybe i'll start doing some again :) i had almost completely forgotten about them and this post reminded me of them :)
i hadn't noticed you had a craft blog, very very nice, useful, interesting and well done :) i really love the tea bags for valentine's day that you posted a while ago
Sere
Thanks for the steps:)… YOU ROCK!!!
I use to make these all the time as a kid. They are a great project when you get grounded!
Ha ha, I bet!
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