Making your own jewelry is fun, and so is showing it off! Our spring session of students at
Willow Grove Elementary has quite a bit of creative talent and I, their teacher, wanted to share some of these pieces with our readers.
These are some student favorites from our lessons doing the Beaded Bracelet with Dangle project, and the Three Strand Necklace. My personal favorite part of teaching these classes is the luxury of observing kids making creative CHOICES. How they pick and discuss these choices is endlessly endearing and inspiring to me - you can bead for decades and could never think up the same fresh ideas coming from a 5-year old mind.
Here are some bracelets that reflect this careful choice-making process.
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| A very cool contrast of bright shell beads on dark blues and blacks. |
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| An unlikely and very fun combination of shell, glass and wood beads, also lots of brights on darks. This young lady opted for these two giant shell beads instead of a dangle. |
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And then from our day making the Three Strand Necklace, here are the results: Many of these were said to be Mothers Day gifts last week, to I measured them to be Mom-lengths. The setup comes with three strands, but it's interesting to encounter the occasional student who is adamant about turning it into a two-strand necklace, saying it will be important to their design! I allow them to make two strands, and then we save the third Accu-Flex strand for a future project.
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| This girl amazes me every week with her precise pattern-making. |
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| Detail of the patten! This was a Mother's Day gift for a very lucky mom. |
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| Playing with different sizes and textures! A big, bold necklace I liked alot. |
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| I loved this student's choices of some of the largest and tiniest beads all in one. She wore this one home very proudly. |
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Stay tuned for more next week from these little artists!
-Molly
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