For a child, the first step towards learning the alphabet is to understand how his name is spelled. Creating personalized bracelets from beads or beads makes it possible to get interesting jewelry and helps young children learn to read. This lesson helps to develop fine motor skills, prepares your hands for writing and just allows you to have fun together. Students will be interested in creating personalized accessories and sharing them with their friends.
Weaving bracelets for the development of the child
A personalized bracelet is a great gift idea for your loved ones. You can try to make jewelry for mom and daughter, and then turn them into a gift set. Crafts from beads with letters will help the child learn to recognize his name and write it down. The kid will definitely like to make beautiful jewelry with his parents that he can wear. Jewelry assembly develops creativity and a sense of beauty. Stringing beads and other small elements helps strengthen the muscles of the hands. Creating different models, counting beads and speaking letters will create even more learning opportunities.
Learning to read when weaving a bracelet
For a child, if he had never stringed beads before, it is more convenient to use large plastic or wooden beads for assembling personalized bracelets. At the initial stage, pour all the letters in a separate container and let the baby find the necessary elements himself. If the baby needs help, tell him where the right parts are, or write his name in large capital letters on a piece of paper. So it’s easier for children to find the right beads. Ask your child questions to guide him when necessary:
- “What is the letter? ".
- “Is she in your name?” ".
- “Where is it located in your name? ".
- “What letter follows her?” ".
- “What is the letter in front of her? ".
How to weave name bracelets
There are several easy ways to make a bracelet with letters:
- Make a bead jewelry according to the pattern. To create such accessories usually use fishing line, thin wire or monofilament.
- Make a personalized bracelet from rubber bands.
- Collect the jewelry partially from beads by adding beads with letters to the center.
- Weave a cord of thin leather cord or rope , tying beads with letters.
- Use soft silicone beads, pendants and a blank for the bracelet.
Bead bracelet
In the first version, to work you need beads in several colors, a weaving pattern and some additional materials:
- special container for beads;
- scissors;
- nippers or pliers;
- bracelet mounts;
- wire or fishing line.
You can make a scheme yourself using a picture with tips where the beads for each letter are distributed in cells . Weaving technique is selected based on their own skills. Most often, for bracelets, manual or machine-tool weaving or “monastery weaving” is used.
Gum bracelet
Another option to create a bracelet: weaving from rubber bands. A personalized bracelet made of this material can be made in different ways, but more often than not, beads with letters or plastic pendants are simply added to the product of standard shape. In the work using any color of gum. Additionally prepare a fastener , wire, slingshot and a hook for weaving. Instead of a machine, sometimes two pencils fastened together. The beginning of the bracelet is woven as usual, but then you need to use the wire to thread the rubber band in the last letter of the name and add it to the overall picture. Next, you need to add an empty elastic band so that the jewelry turns out to be plastic, then again string the next bead with the letter on the wire, drag the elastic through it and add it to the bracelet. When the name is finished, weaving continues again as usual.
Rope Friendship Bracelet
The easiest way to make a personalized bracelet is to weave it out of a thick thread, rope or leather lace, adding a few beads with letters.
The process of creating jewelry:
- For the standard size of the bracelet, you need to cut off 60 cm from the selected material and fix the end to the paper clip, as when weaving baubles .
- Another piece of cord 1 m long is folded in half and tied in a knot 6 cm from the top of the first lace to make three threads.
- Using the left and right sides as a working thread, 14 square knots are woven .
- The beads are woven into a regular knot, followed by a square one again.
- You need to make another 13 square knots after the last letter of the name is woven.
- Now the excess edges of the cord are cut off.
- If the bracelet is small, you can weave a separate part of the desired number of square knots and fasten it to the base.
Now the product is ready. Beads with letters allow you to create not only personalized bracelets, but also add whole phrases and wishes to jewelry. Because such crafts are ideal as a gift, they are often presented as a sign of friendship.