I always get so bored at home and I need a fun craft to do that uses only a few materials.?
I really like things that involve beads….. thanks for your help.
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They have illustrated lessons for the ones listed and they are free. Notice they do have something with beads.
http://www.craftown.com/lessons.htm
Making paper beads, all you need is old magazines , scissors, glue stick, round tooth picks or something similar and look it up on the internet for directions, easy as pie, then buy a can of sealing spray and make into unique jewelery
As mentioned, paper “roll-up beads” are easy to make and can look quite different from each other depending on the paper source and size.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=paper+beads
You can also make your own beads of all kinds with homemade clay-like materials like paper-mash (not papier mache), bread clay, salt dough clay, and even shrunken chunks of veggies or their skins (either found as is, or manipulated to create holes and/or shapes), as well as with wire, fiber and string, felted wool, wood, rocks, metals, glass, etc, and plastic-based materials like resin, Friendly Plastic, Shrink Plastic, polymer clays, etc. .
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+make+beads+paper+tissue
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf865401.tip.html
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=“bread+clay”
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=salt+dough+bead
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=make+wire+beads
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=make+metal+beads
etc.
If you include *purchasing* the materials, many of the materials above are available at craft, hobby, and art supply stores, but especially the “clays” which would also include polymer clay (you can’t make that kind yourself)–and polymer clays can make most any kind of bead you can ever imagine.**
(And of course, all kinds of beads can be purchased from craft stores, etc, or you can buy jewelry from thrift shops, garage sales –or just use your own old jewelry– and take the pieces apart for the beads, and perhaps the findings too.
You can also just put a hole into, or an attacher of some kind like an eye pin perhaps into, any small item you find so that it can act like a holed-bead or dangle-bead.)
Beads can be used for other things besides jewelry too though, like mosaics (small for coasters/etc, or large), or for counting/sorting games for kids, or for making your own game pieces, or for embellishments–on clothing, bags, lamps, etc– and much more.
** (“polymer clays” would be brands like Premo, Fimo, Kato Polyclay, Cernit, Sculpey, etc…. though many of those brands will have more than one line of polymer clay under its brand)
If you’re interested in polymer clays and all the things they can do, check out some of these pages at my polymer clay encyclopedia site and also these pics:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=polymer+clay+bead
as a start:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/beads.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/beads-holes.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/jewelry.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/pendants_cording.htm
… and perhaps http://glassattic.com/polymer/buttons.htm
HTH,
Diane B.