30 Homemade Beaded Jewelry Crafts

Make Plastic Beads

Colored with markers and baked into permanent coils, these plastic bottle beads are reminiscent of colored glass.

Recycled Paper Beads

This fun and easy craft helps little ones hone their fine motor skills while creating beads from old magazines and catalogs.

Love Beads

Shape and bake tiny heart beads for someone special.

Kwanzaa Necklace

Make a necklace featuring traditional holiday colors

Beads of Paradise

Use LifeSavers to make colorful, edible bracelets for your party guests; another great craft from Spoonful.com.

Beautiful Beaded Rings

Here's a glamorous idea for an easy-to-make gift; another great craft from Spoonful.com.

Felt Beads

A beginner's sewing project using felt.

Beaded Sunglasses Strap

Keep track of your favorite shades with this supercool strap

Magazine Bead Bracelet

Recycle old catalogs and magazines into stretchy, swanky bracelets that cost next to nothing to make.

Seed Beads

Use the seeds from a summer melon to make this back-to-nature necklace.

Roly-poly Beads

Make colorful beads for jewelry crafts by wet-felting wool batting or roving.

Beading Hearts

This Valentine's Day, bewitch the object of your affection with a bejeweled charm.

Paper and Bead Brooch

Create a chic pin from an ordinary piece of cardboard, decorative paper, buttons, and beads.

Phone Number Bead Bracelet

Make a beaded bracelet with your phone number for little ones to wear.

"My Mom's the Best" Keychain

This pretty keychain will tell mom just how much you love her! With pretty colored beads and a personal message, your mom will cherish this gift.

Fabric Necklace

Who knew an old pair of pants could turn into such a cute necklace, or even a headband. Simply cut, add beads, tie it together, and voila--an instant accessory.

Snow White's Ruby Red Cranberry Necklace

With seven hardworking miners in the picture, Snow White is bound to have her fair share of diamonds. But the Thanksgiving holiday calls for donning different colored gems -- like this string of ruby red cranberry felt beads.

Flowers-and-Ice Fairy Friendship Bracelet

This friendship bracelet combines elements of summer and winter -- pretty purple flower blossoms and beads as clear as ice.

Fish Swivel Bracelet

Turn swivels, beads, and bells into jingle-jangle jewelry

Mulan's Jade Necklace

With strips of pretty paper and a few drinking straws, you and your child can create beads for a jade necklace that's just as fashionable as the real thing.

Tiana's Tiara

Fashioned from sparkly beads and glittery craft foam, this fancy crown is as dazzling as the one Tiana donned.

Silvermist's Dewdrop Bracelets

These sparkly bracelets are a cinch for novice fairies to string, especially if you make the faux gem dewdrops beforehand.

Tiana's Necklace

This elegant string of craft pearls features a shimmery crystal blue pendant -- just like the necklace Tiana wore to Charlotte's ball.

Hydro Bracelets

Directions for making a neat piece of kid jewelry.

Button Beaded Bracelet

Miscellaneous buttons and bead to form a pretty pattern, you can create spring-time fun to wear with lots of outfits.

Heart Strings

Red, White, and Blue Bracelet

Create a July Fourth armband with this creative craft from Spoonful.com

Secret Code Backpack Chains

Here's a clever new way for your child to remember an important phone number -- another great craft idea from Spoonful.com.

Beaded Cross Necklace

This classic craft is a great Easter craft or sunday school project.