How to Make Your Own Awareness Bracelet
Several charitable organizations, such as the Komen Foundation, sell awareness bracelets. Making your own awareness bracelets is an easy way to raise awareness for a cause that is important to you. You can also make awareness bracelets to raise money for your cause by making bracelets to sell. You have two different options when looking to make your own awareness bracelets; you can design your own bracelets and then have a company manufacture them for you, or you can craft your own bracelets with supplies from a craft store.
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Things You'll Need
- 50cm of 3mm silver wire
- Silver screw fastener
- String
- Scissors
- Beads in awareness colors
- Awareness charm
- Wire snips
Instructions
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Design Bracelets for Manufacturing
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Go to a website like the one linked in the Resources section and select the style of silicone bracelet that you would like to order.
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Select the size, color, font ,and other options for your silicone bracelets. For example, pink is usually the color used for breast cancer awareness and yellow is usually used for AIDS awareness.
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Type the message that you want on your silicone bracelets into the box provided. Double check all spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Add the bracelets to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout.
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Fill in your shipping and billing information. Double check this information to make sure that it is correct and submit your order for your silicone bracelets.
Crafting Awareness Bracelets
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Fold your wire in half and thread your fastener into one end of your wire, bringing it up to the fold in the wire.
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Take a piece of string and wrap it around your wrist so that it fits your wrist like you want your beaded bracelet to fit. Cut the excess string off and lay the string out straight on your work surface. Arrange your beads in an eye-pleasing way so they extend the length of your string. Place your charm in the middle of this line up.
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Thread both ends of your wire through your beads and charm in the order that you have them laid out.
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Thread one end of your wire through the other end of your clasp and twist the two ends of your wire together tightly. Snip the excess wire.
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Tuck the twisted end of your wire in the center of the last bead on your beaded bracelet to keep it from poking you.
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Tips & Warnings
Most craft stores carry charms for a number of different causes, but if you have trouble finding charms at a craft store, check accessory stores such as Claire's that carry charm bracelets.
