Beadwork-lesson #9

For Hayley and Rachael’s lesson, it was called beadwork. Each student had either a red or pink piece of construction paper. We used that paper to cut out a heart. They explained to us that we were going to be making bracelets for our moms for Mother’s Day, using beads. We would be making the beads out of strips of magazine. There were four different ways to make the beads and we had to make sure we had a certain pattern with the beads. I chose a color/white pattern to use.

After we created the bead, by folding it over a wooden dowel, we put a little bit of glue on to hold it together. Then, we put the beads on a piece of string. We continued that process until our piece of string was filled up, and then we tied it to complete our bracelet. We used our hearts that we cut out to write why we love our moms and then we signed our name. I wrote I love my mom because she encourages me and always supports me and comes to my basketball games.

An extension activity would be to create a friendship bracelet for another student maybe at a different class in the same town or out of town; kind of like a pen pal. Each student can be paired up with a student from a different class and they can make bracelets for each other and even write letters to tell about themselves and explain their bracelets.