Recycled Plastic Necklace Tutorial

  

How To

You will need:

Sissors

Hole Punch

Clear stiff plastic packaging (I used the lids and bottom from a clear plastic vegatable carton*)

Beads (I used graduated sizes, but any size and combination would work well)

Cord or string (I used elasticized) 

*I wish that I'd washed and dried the plastic more carefully. It's very hard to get water spots off of a lot of small discs. 

Step one: Count out the beads you intend to use. You will need the same number of plastic discs, plus one more. Use a small cardboard circle as a rough template. Cut in roughly oval organic shapes and vary the sizes somewhat.



Step two: At the narrower end of each disc punch a small hole.

Step three: Arrange your discs in a row by size, starting with the smallest ones at each end and working toward the middle (the middle disc being the largest in size).

Step four: Cut cord to length (allow enough to be able to tie a bow in the back).

Step five:  String the beads and discs starting with the smallest (or 1st if all your beads are of a uniform size) and alternating bead, disc, bead, disc until complete.

Step six: place a knot before the 1st bead and after the last bead to hold them all in place.