Beading Buds - Easy Summer Necklace Craft for Kids!

School is out, summer is finally here, and it's the perfect time to
spend some quality crafting time with your child.

Beading is a craft that has so may benefits for children, it improves
fine motor, visual perceptual, visual motor and cognitive skills,
helps with dressing skills (especially clothing fasteners, like
buttons and zippers), and improves pencil grasp and pencil control
during colouring and writing activities

Beading Buds  is sharing an easy beading tutorial with us.

Easy Summer Necklace Craft for Kids 

TOOLS:

Flat nose pliers


MATERIALS:

Tiger tail wire

2 crimp beads

Sterling silver plated toggle clasp

Bead board

30 beads


INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Put the crimp bead on one end of the tiger tail, loop through one end
    of the toggle clasp and thread back through the crimp bead; squeeze
    the bead using the flat nose pliers.

2. Make a pattern on your bead board. Thread the beads onto your wire
    following the pattern that you just created.

3. Repeat step one at the other end of necklace to attach the other
    part of the toggle clasp to the tiger tail using the remaining crimp
    bead.

4. Trim the tiger tail at each end using a pair of scissors or cutting pliers.



If  your child loves beading, why not book a beading party for your own child’s next birthday?  Companies such as Beading Buds (a local company, based in Mississauga, and servicing the Greater Toronto Area) is the perfect party idea for ages five and up. 


  






Beading Buds brings thousands of beads to your home or a venue of your choice to teach your child and her friends how to make beautiful jewelry. The jewelry the children make becomes their loot bag, along with a beautiful keepsake organza bag.