How to Make a Key Chain Each class

How to Make a Key Chain

Each class needs: a stack of cups cord lobster clasps key charms key rings black stopper beads

Each class also needs: a ruler scissors bags of beads

Each student needs: 2 pieces of cord, both 12 inches long

Each student needs: 1 cup

Each student needs: 1 cup 1 key charm

Each student needs: 1 key ring 1 cup 1 key charm

Each student needs: 1 key ring 1 cup 1 key charm 1 lobster clasp

Each student needs: 1 key ring 2 stopper beads 1 cup 1 key charm 1 lobster clasp

Each student needs: 1 bag of beads that the student really likes

What to do: Decide which supplies to hand out in advance and which to hand out as they are needed. When you are ready: #1 Tell students the bags full of beads are sort of like people…each bag is different from the others. The beads are different sizes, shapes, and colors (just like people!), but they were all made just the way they were meant to be, and each one is beautiful in its own way. #2 Invite each student to choose a bag full of beads they think are beautiful, interesting, or unique. Then ask them why they chose those beads. Share the reason with the class. #3 Either give the beads to the students as they choose them (but ask them to leave the beads in the bags!) or write their names on the bags so they can be passed out later.

What to do: #4 #5 #6 Talk about how pretty/interesting/unique each bag of beads is (like people). Then talk about how a key chain could be made using only 1 kind of bead…but that would be kind of boring (kind of like having a world full of people who are all alike). See if students will agree that a key chain would be much more interesting if it were made using different kinds of beads (like the world is more interesting with different people). Assist students in exchanging beads with one another. One way would be to put students’ cups in a line, have students line up and walk by the cups, putting one of their own beads in each cup. Students will use the beads in their cup to make their keychain.

Put 1 cord on the key ring.

Put 1 cord on the key ring.

Put some of the beads on 1 cord.

Add 1 stopper bead at the bottom.

Tie a double knot. Trim the cord.

Put the rest of the beads on the other cord.

Add a stopper bead at the bottom.

Tie another double knot. Trim the cord.

Put the key charm on the other cord.

Put the lobster clasp on the cord.

Tie a double knot. Trim the cord.

Put the lobster clasp on the key ring.

That is how you make a key chain.