Monday, August 31, 2009

Make Friendship Bracelets


Friendship bracelets have been a favorite craft for kids for some time. The craft is also valuable for teaching fine motor skills, math skills, and language arts skills as well. Children involved in arts and crafts be shown how to use these same skills to make progress across the curriculum.

Friendship bracelets can be made from a variety of different materials. They are often accented with letter or other beads to personalize and decorate. Learning how to create these bracelets and making them is a way to increase fine motor skills for all children. The skills involved with reading and following directions, sketching, planning, and designing patterns that are more complicated involves language arts and math skills. It is important to teach children the math and language vocabulary without ruining the fun of the activity involved.

Resources for Making Your Own:

Beaded Friendship Bracelets Hands on Crafts for Kids

Beaded Friendship Bracelet Kaboose

BillyBear4Kids Friendship Bracelet Directions

BillyBear4Kids Friendship Bracelet Directions for Adding Letters

Cross Knot Friendship Bracelet

Floss Friendship Bracelet

DIY Friendship Bracelet

DLTK Basic Friendship Bracelets Directions

Family Fun Friendship Bracelets

Friendship Bracelet Instructions

Heather's Friendship Bracelet Directions

Kaboose Easy Braided Friendship Bracelet

Making Friends Chunky Friendship Bracelet

Making Friends Daisy Bracelet

Making Friends Diagonal Friendship Bracelet

Zoom Friendship Bracelets





Picture Credits miahalf0 flickr.com

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