DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Basic Friendship Bracelets

Materials

• 3 strands of embroidery floss or yarn each 6 feet long
   
  • floss is nicer but a nice thick yarn can be easier to use the first time you do the project
     

 

Instructions:

• Put your yarn together so all of the ends meet
   
• Fold in half and knot in the middle (now you have 6 strands)
   
• tape the knot to a table or clip it onto a clipboard (or get a friend to hold it)
   
• Starting from left to right, use the left most string (in this case the yellow) to make a double knot around each of the other strings -- the image shows what one double knot looks like
   
• using the colors in our diagram, we'd use the left most yellow to make a double knot around the red, then the second red, the green, then the second green, then the yellow
   
• At the end of that, the string we used for knotting is now on the right most side of the project and there's a diagonal first row of knots across our bracelet
   
• Again, starting from left to right, we'll pick up our next string and knot all the way across with it -- in our diagram, we pick up the right string and knot across the green, green, red, yellow, yellow
   
• continue this process of taking the left most string and double knotting all the way across the other strings until your bracelet is long enough to tie around your wrist
   
• Tie a simple knot in the end and then tie it around your friend's wrist!

 

 

 

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