We had a girls dress-up tea party at our house this week and they had so much fun dressing up! We needed the perfect accessory, edible bracelets! I was inspired to make these adorable jellybean bracelets after reading the tutorial by Mrs D Lightful, love her blog! She used stretchy string to thread her bracelets but we just used plain string, the kids absolutely loved them!
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Supplies needed to make the Jellybean Bracelets:
- Thicker needle (I used a basting needle from quilting. Loved it’s “T” head, it made threading so much easier!).
- Thin Regular sewing needle
- Thread – I used four strands for strength
- Jellybeans!!!
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How to make these party favors:
Using the thicker needle, poke a hole through, then thread the thinner needle through the hole. We had a little bowl of water and a rag to rinse our needles off as we worked. They would get gummed up from the sugary sweetness. The kids loved their bracelets!
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Learning Opportunities with the jellybean bracelets:
- Color recognition – maybe make a shade scale. Which is the darkest red, the brightest red, the palest pink?
- Pattern Recognition and creation as you pick and predict what color should come next.
- Taste test: Which is the sweetest flavor? The saltiest one? The most sour?
- Take a sweet jelly bean, which part of your tongue can you taste it the best?
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For other party ideas check out these posts:
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I LOVE this idea! Thank you so much for sharing. I don’t like my kids to have tons of sugar and this is a great way for them to have fun and limit their sugar intake!
These are sooooo sweet. My Three Girlies will love, love, love them! And they’ve been pinned! xoxoxo
This is a great idea – and super cute! I love all the springboard activities you came up with too – matching, tasting…
my kids will love these!!! pinning this!!
would make great party bag fillers!!
i would love it if you would share this on my link party , Serenity Saturday over at http://www.serenityyou.blogspot.com
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what a fun party activity! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts today! You can see it here
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If you have other kid friendly crafts, I’d love it if you would submit them 🙂 If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.