Easy Red, White, and Blue Bracelets For Tweens

Your kids can add some red, white, and blue accessories this 4th of July when they make these simple bracelets. With just a few supplies and some adult supervision, your tweens can make these patriotic bracelets in just a few minutes. This easy project can be a good one to fill a bit of time while the kids are waiting to eat or watch fireworks.

lately I've been working on a few 4th of July decor projects, and my girls wanted to make something too. Right now they love bracelets, they usually have 3 or 4 on at a time. I had a stash of patriotic fabric, so we decided to make them a few bracelets they can wear for the 4th of July and all through the summer.

Every month, a small group of my blogging friends get together for a challenge. This month the topic was red white or blue to celebrate July 4th, so I decided to join with them and create this easy project. Make sure to check the end of this post for links to the other great patriotic projects.

Easy Red, White, and Blue Bracelets For Tweens

My kids like to work on crafting projects with me. Most of the time they are able to work on them by themselves, but every once in a while they need a little help. These bracelets would be great for any age child to wear. I would say that creating this project is better suited for older children since one of the crafting tools that is used is a hot glue gun.

Supplies Needed to Make Patriotic Bracelets

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Shower Curtain Rings

Mini Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

Patriotic Pattern Fabric

Scissors for Fabric

Multi Purpose Scissors - These will need to be very strong and sharp scissors

Craft Sticks - optional (you can use them to push the fabric onto the hot glue and not burn fingers)

Simple Tutorial To Make Fabric Covered Bracelets With Kids

1. Adults will need to use the multi-purpose scissors to cut the plastic peg off of the curtain rings.

2. Trim one end of fabric (the long way), about 3/4 or 1 inch wide. Starting at the trimmed spot, rip the fabric, so it makes a frayed strip. Most fabric is 42" wide and you will only need your strip to be 18-20" long, so for each frayed strip you will be able to make two bracelets.

3. Using the hot glue gun, place one little dot of glue on the inside of the curtain ring. I had them start on the side that you didn't trim the plastic peg from. Cover the glue with one short end of your fabric piece, making the edge of the fabric piece be pretty much even with the edge of the ring.

4. Add a dot of glue to the outside of the curtain ring. Wrap the fabric to cover the dot of glue.

5. Wrap the fabric around the curtain ring. Each time you wrap, the new section of fabric will barely overlap the previous piece of fabric. If you overlap too much, there won't be enough fabric to cover the ring and it will be very thick.

NOTE: At this point, you can continue to wrap all the way to the end. To keep the fabric from sliding around on the plastic ring, you can put a dot of hot glue on the inside of the bracelet every few times you wrap the fabric around. That is just optional though. Do whatever works best for you!

6. When you reach the end of the plastic ring, you will put a dot of hot glue on the edge of the inside of the bracelet. Wrap the fabric over the dot to secure it. Add another drop of glue to the same place and cover the end of the ring where you removed the plastic peg. Trim any excess fabric if needed.

That's it! These bracelets are so easy for kids to make, and they are a quick project to work on too. In about 5 minutes the kids will be ready to wear their bracelet, or even make a few more.

You can have your kids make these on the 4th to keep them occupied, as a fun everyday project, or even for a group. We made these a second time with the girls tween group at our church and all the girls loved them and wanted to make a few more.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, the Creatively Craft Bloggers have created some red, white, and blue projects to share today. Click on the links below the photo to visit their blog posts. 

• Al Things Beautiful - Patriotic Crafts for the Fourth of July 
• Home Crafts by Ali - Easy Red, White, and Blue Bracelets for Tweens
• 2 DIshing Divas - Patriotic Butter Slime 
• Life Beyond the Kitchen - Red and White Paper Stars for a Patriotic Display 
• Try it - Like it - USA t-shirt