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Easy Beaded Rainbow Wind Chime Kids Craft

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This easy DIY Beaded Wind Chime will make a cute addition to your garden! A super simple dollar store DIY to add to your easy kids craft list!  Summer is always right around the corner, plan this for a stay home day. 

DIY Beaded Wind Chime

DIY Beaded Wind Chime

Easy Kids Craft / Dollar Store DIY ! 

Summer isn’t just for frozen treats and BBQ’s.  At our house summer means finding ways to keep the kiddos busy, other than swimming! To avoid crazy fits of boredom rage, I plan fun crafts and projects.  I like to keep the creations they make, but I can only store so many paper plate crafts. So we focus on making things that can be used as decoration or serve a purpose, like this DIY Beaded Wind Chime

Wind Chimes

Wind chimes are typically made with bright, beautiful beads, crystals or plastics.  When the wind blows they make such a pretty sound.

Super easy kids crafts

Making the beaded wind chime:

Take caution with beads if crafting with children under 3

Gather together the following materials: 

  • 6 jumbo craft sticks in rainbow colors
  • Tacky or Hot glue
  • Jewelry wire or fishing line
  • Crimp beads (found near the beads in any big box or craft store)
  • Plastic or crystal beads
  • 6 large beads
  • Scissors
  • Jewelry pliers or regular pliers

wind chime kids craft

What to do:

  1. Start by gluing the craft sticks into 2 triangles.  Place on top of each other to form a star shape and glue.
  2. Cut 4  20″ pieces of jewelry wire.
  3. Slide a crimp bead onto the end of one piece of jewelry wire, crimp to close.   Start stringing beads in desired pattern, half way up the strand stop and add a large bead, crimp bead and close.
  4. NOTE*  Start and end with a large bead on each strand.  The large beads hanging on the bottom will bang together making a sound and the other large beads will hold the star up.
  5. Continue stringing 2 more strands this way.
  6. String the 4th strand completely leaving only about 4 inches at the end.
  7. Thread the 3 strands, 1 through each hole on the star,  see picture for reference. 

DIY Beaded Wind Chime

wind chime kids craft

To Finish

Put the 4th strand up through the middle and gather all 4 strand ends together.  The star will sit on the big beads, adjust the strands until it is hanging evenly.

Slip all 4 strand ends through a bead, add a crimp bead and close to finish.   Hang and enjoy!

wind chime kids craft

dollar tree craft

Like this craft?  Try making our DIY Oriole Bird Feeder!   

Attracts pretty songbirds like Orioles and Goldfinches.

DIY Oriole Bird Feeder

More Dollar Store DIY tutorials here at The Budget Decorator 

 

wind chime kids craft

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  1. Liz Mays says

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    That looks like fun, and it’s great hand-eye coordination with stringing those beads.

  2. Amy Desrosiers says

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    This is a really cute craft! I love that I have all the supplies on hand too!

  3. Marcie W. says

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    What a cute and colorful craft. My kids would appreciate the ability to customize their individual chime too!

  4. Alicia says

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    This is such a fun craft idea! I think my kids would enjoy making it and seeing their creativity hung up for everyone to see 🙂

  5. Chelley @ A is for Adelaide says

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    This is such a great idea! I love that both my girls can enjoy this together and make something fun for the house!

  6. Dawn gibson-thigpen says

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    i love this…i remember my mom used to always have wind chimes in our bathroom window. i love how creative this is

    • Melissa P-V says

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      OH that would be a great place too!

  7. Kristin says

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    That looks like so much fun! My girls would love to do something like this!

    • Melissa P-V says

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      Thanks Kristin! Yes for sure!

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