Make a Beaded Safety Pin Bracelet
In celebration of Canada Day here’s an idea for making a patriotic craft for all you fellow Canadians out there in cyberspace (or anyone who wants to pose as a Canadian for traveling purposes).
Before we begin, I want to say, “Thanks so much!” to Brenda. She inquired about an easy, fun jewelry craft to make with her teenage daughters this weekend, and the question forced me to get off my bum.
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(Note to Americans – “bum” as in the body part – is a Canadian/British term – I understand Americans rarely if ever say bum referring to the buttocks).
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About this Safety Pin Bracelet Pattern
Since I am exhausted from the first day of summer vacation for my 5 year old, I’m shamelessly borrowing ideas from a bunch of different places and mashing them together into one craft instead of creating something original.
Here are the websites I’m giving props to:
Thank you thank you family crafts at about.com – not sure exactly what you’re making here but it gave me the idea.
Thanks to Aleesa who kindly allowed me to post pictures from her Flick’r feed
So here’s the project:
Canada Day Beaded Safety Pin Bracelet Project Instructions
Materials
- Lots of 1 1/16 inch safety pins
- red and white seed beads
- 1 inch wide elastic
How to’s
Follow this pictorial guide (from familycrafts.about.com) for your bead pattern.
Each column represents a pin. The idea is to thread one pin and then thread another pin in the opposite direction.
Each pin will then be threaded onto the 1 inch elastic and will form a pattern of canada flags around your wrist.
For an example of what I mean, take a look at Aleesah’s watch band:
You can separate the flags from each other with a white beaded safety pin, or let each flag blend into the other with no separation. I think either would look awesome.
To finish, you can either make it into a watchband by sewing the ends around a watch face, or simply sew the end together to make a stretchy bracelet.
Good luck with it! Happy Canada Day!
Cool Canadian facts:
- Canada Day is July 1st
- In Canada “bum” is a body part meaning buttocks
- Canadians are always polite
- They like to eat Tortiere while sitting on a snowbank (even in summer!)
- Canadian parents read the Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier every night to their children at bedtime
- They have a uniformly odd sense of humour that non-Canadians disregard as either the babbling of a fool or the truth of a sage.
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Great Post Christine!
Will have to give this one a try… now if I can only find enough safety pins lying around LOL … oh and you’re right lucky to even be able to send your gal to school part of the year. My son is going on 5 this December and can’t start school until next fall! So you can imagine my days. lol 
hello,
im verry interested in this grate design!!!
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much love louise