Trying to make Fimo beads...

... and this is how it is going:

Tutorial - Difficult tube decorations

 Yesterday we went to the beadshop near where we live. We bought lots of things to make decorations for my hearing aids. My daddy wanted to make something to go on the tubes and he made these:

If you want to make something similar this is what you need: beads, wire and small pliers (and a stick or something the same thickness as your tube. We used a crochet stick).

You take a piece of wire, you thread it through the bead,

you twist the wire round itself several times,

then you add a new bead and start again.

my daddy put three beads in total. and when you have finished you wind the wire and clip off the end and tuck in the ends to make sure the are not spiky.

And this is what they look like.

Do you like them?

Skull beads

We found these skull pony beads. I gave some to my friend Robin for his hearing aids. You can also buy them in other colours like white or black. You can also buy pony beads with footballs shapes. We bought these online.

My new charms

Today I wore my new charms to school and my friend said they looked very nice. I like to wear them because I think they are really special and I am lucky that I have two sets of hearing aids, pink and purple.

Tutorial: Star-Rainbow easy dangling decoration

You can make dangling decorations with beads. They are very easy to make. You need:

beads that you like
jeweller's wire (think one is easier to use)
jump rings (these are tiny rings that will hang the decoration from the tube of your hearing aid)

You will also need scissors, and you may find it useful to have some small pliers handy.

This is an easy decoration.

This is what you need:

1 jump ring, 1 star pony bead, 1 rainbow bead, 1 small silver bead, and some wire.

First you put the silver bead through the wire, and fold it on itself, like this:

Then you add the rainbow bead:

Then you twist the wire a bit in this way:

Then you add the star bead, and the jump ring. You then have to twist the wire a bit around itself, in this way:

You cut the bit of wire that is left over with your scissors, and this is the end result:

Beads

I use beads on my tubes. These are called PONY BEADS, and you can buy then online (just do a search), or in toy shops. I recently bought a bag of pony beads in Rymans. They are good for hearing aids because they have large holes. Usually beads have tiny holes. Pony beads are also made of plastic, which means they are light.

Here are some of the pony beads that I have in my bead box.

And here is what they look like when I put them on my moulds:

And here you can see a how beads help make your hearing aids look nice: