Arts Crafts

Paper bead
necklace /
bracelets
Turn old magazines into
fashionable jewellery to match
any outfit. In just a couple of
hours you can convert the last
magazine you read into a stunning
bead bracelet or necklace.
You will need:
Pages from a magazine, PVA glue
or wallpaper paste, a small paint
brush, clear nail varnish, skewers
or an old piece of cable, a piece
of wool, cord or elastic.
How to:
1. Choose colourful pages from the magazine with
backgrounds that match your colour scheme, we used
pages with blue and orange backgrounds.
2. Draw lines with a ruler on the back of the page making
long triangle shapes about 2cm x 21cm. Cut out the
triangles, each triangle makes a bead and you should get
about 15-20 beads from each sheet of paper.
3. Water down PVA glue or wallpaper paste and paint onto
the back of each triangle of paper.
4. Roll the paper around a skewer or cable, starting from the
2cm wide end of the paper first to make a bead. You can
have 4 or 5 beads per skewer.
5. Leave them to dry and then paint with clear nail varnish to
give your beads a hard shiny finish.
6. Thread the beads onto a piece of wool or cord and tie at
the back. Move the beads around until the knot disappears
inside them. Use thin elastic for a bracelet.
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Desk Tidy
Here’s an attractive container to keep your desk organised.
Complete with different compartments to find the things you
need quickly.
You will need:
A large plastic container e.g. ice cream container or washing
detergent tub, cardboard tubes, wrapping paper, pictures from
calendars and magazines, scissors, glue.
How to:
1. Wash out your plastic container.
2. Cut out enough wrapping paper to wrap around the
outside of the container.
3. Glue it to the outside making sure the join is at the back.
4. Cut out pictures from calendars and magazines and glue
to the front.
5. Cut varying lengths of cardboard tube from old toilet
roll inners or kitchen foil.
6. Cover them in wrapping paper and glue them to the
inside of the container to make handy compartments.
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