DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Basic Friendship Bracelets

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

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!

Friendship Bracelet