I put together this friendship bracelet kit to send to a certain 9-year-old I know. She doesn’t have any experience making bracelets, so I went with a really simple design. If you want something more complicated there are lots of patterns around the web.
Supplies:
embroidery floss in a few colors
cardboard
safety pin or tape
instruction sheet
envelope
I went to the trouble of putting my floss on spools, because it will be much less likely to turn into a tangled ball. Since it is going to a 9-year-old, this is very important. It also allows you to use up embroidery floss you already have.
Cut your cardboard into spools. You can cut a template out of graph paper or just wing it. I cut the cardboard into 2inch squares then cut in the indentions freely. Cut a slit in one end of the spool to secure the loose end of floss. Then just wrap the embroidery floss around the spools.
Click on the image above to open it full size and print out the instruction sheet.
Then follow the instructions to include a completed bracelet as an example.
Put it all together in a cute envelope and you’re done. I made my envelope out of vellum; I like that it alludes to the contents yet, without knowing you still can’t quite guess what it will be.
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This is a great idea! My sister & I used to spend hours making friendship bracelets from a book we were given by American relatives we visited as kids. I think I’ll make one of these kits for her for Christmas for old time’s sake. 🙂