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!!!
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?
For other party ideas check out these posts:
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Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts today! You can see it here
http://funfamilycrafts.com/jelly-bean-bracelets/
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.
What a fun idea!
What a great idea! Cute blog! I can’t wait to browse some more!!
Fantastic…here’s another addition to my long list of activities for the kids! Any positive activity that lasts for more than five minutes is a blessing….
My son had a fair at school today and he said someone made Jelly Bean bracelets. I found this page and he said, “That’s it! That’s it!” So we’ll be trying these this weekend.
I may use thin elastic instead of string to make them easier to get on and off like stretchy bracelets.
what a cute idea. I never though of making this. was looking for cute stuff to make for my lil girl’s birthday party this week. She’s turning 4. hehe. thank you so much for posting this c:
Jelly bean bracelets? Great idea. I want to make a party favor out of these.
The jelly bean bracelets are really cute and fashionable. I have a feeling that the bracelet won’t last long with kids since the jelly beans are edible. I’m sure they’re going to eat all of it.
We love this idea and featured it on our blog this week!
http://toddlerapproved.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-fun-recycled.html
Can’t wait to try it out!
I can’t wait to try these bracelets with my kids. They look like so much fun, I’ll have to make one for myself as well.
Great idea. Thanks. Carolyn.