How to Make a Seed Bead and Safety Pin Keyring

Turn your beads and safety pins into funky, colorful keyrings to add to your car keys, or maybe hook onto your purse zips for a trendy style. This easy craft can be turned into gifts for friends and family, as well as for your own purposes.

EditSteps

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   Select seed beads and other suitable beads that you'd like to turn into keyrings. You could also add little charms, such as using those off an old broken necklace. This is a great opportunity to reuse old jewelery items that are pretty but not much use for anything else––in this case, a key-shaped souvenir pendant is being added to the keyring.
   
   
   
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   Find some silver safety pins.
   
   
   
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   Thread as many colorful seed beads on the safety pins as will fit. Make sure that the arrangement looks good.
   
   
   
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   Hang the bead-filled safety pins off a keychain loop or ring.
   
   
   
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   Use a bigger safety pin to thread a large pendant on.
   
   
   
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   Attach that safety pin to your keychain.
   
   
   
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   Add some more plain safety pins if desired.
   
   
   
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   Attach to a zipper on your jacket, backpack, purse, or anything else. It will be your unique signature piece.
   
   
   

EditTips

• You could make lots of these and give them to friends as friendship tokens.
• Use all different colored beads and pendants. Go crazy, go wild!
• Try selling these online or at market/gala stalls for money. You could use the money for yourself, but if you say that the money is for charity, it's a better chance people will buy them. They're a great project for school fairs.
• It may help to use tweezers to pick up the beads, as they're small and fiddly.

EditWarnings

• Always take care when working with small and sharp objects. Keep away from young children and pets.

EditThings You'll Need

• Seed beads
• Beads
• Pendant, charms, etc.
• Safety pins, varying sizes including one larger one
• Keyring loop or ring
• Tweezers to help with beads