During our week of summer camp dedicated to CLAY, we learned how to make all sorts of different beads. The easiest bead to build which is also really striking is a TWISTED ROPE BEAD. We had campers aged 5 to 10 and all of them were able to create the TWISTED ROPE BEAD. Together with our paper beads, these beads made for spetacular Paper bead and Clay necklaces.
You will need:
Paper beads (follow tutorial here)
Sculpey III
Cooking twine
Language development: colors, piece, roll, rope, twist, roll, back, thread, clay, paperbeads, necklace, knot
Let’s get started:
Step 1: Pick two strong colors.
Step 2: Roll out into long logs.
Step 3: Twist the two colors togther to form a rope.
Step 4: Roll into a bead – remember to leave a small hole in the center so that can be used as a bead. This is flat version of the bead. You can also wrap around a toothpick to create a rounder bead.
Step 5: Cook following instructions.
Step 6: Thread TWISTED ROPE BEADS onto kitchen twine alternating with the paper beads.
My favorite part about these necklaces is that they were all different – no two TWISTED ROPE BEADS were the same allowing all the kids to create their own version of this simple CLAY PROJECT.
Alison
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