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Have fun making colourful bead jewellery with simple materials. Hilary White explains how Handmade beads give you twice the fun - once you have created your beads, you get the pleasure of wearing them! Try the following techniques with the children to create necklaces, bracelets and other beautiful pieces of jewellery. Keep an eye on younger children to make sure they don't put the beads in their mouths.

Handmade beads give you twice the fun - once you have created your beads, you get the pleasure of wearing them! Try the following techniques with the children to create necklaces, bracelets and other beautiful pieces of jewellery. Keep an eye on younger children to make sure they don't put the beads in their mouths.

Pasta beads

Pasta tubes are perfect ready-made beads. All you have to do is decorate them in bright colours and thread them on to ribbon.

You will need:

uncoooked pasta tubes, such as penne and macaroni; knitting needle and Plasticine; ready mixed or acrylic paint; brushes; craft varnish (for adult use only) or PVA glue; glitter glue pens

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