Rubber bands

Last week I went to Spain, and my cousin Catalina taught me how to make bracelets and charms with rubber bands. These are the bands:

And these are some of the things I have been making:

My mum thought they would make good hearing aid decorations. What do you think?

There are lots of tutorials on youtube teaching how to make flowers and other things. I like the ones on the channel called Made by Mommy, like this snow flake.

Lots of charms! (with video tutorial)

This weekend I made lots of charms:

I am taking all of these to my audiologist on Thursday. He will give them out to other girls who use hearing aids like me. Sometimes children don't know they can decorate their hearing aids, and they don't like wearing them. I hope my decorations will help them feel happy to have hearing aids.

I also made these:

These are for me!

You can see how to make this kind of decorations with pictures and texts in an older post, here. 

Or you can see it in this video (the video is in two parts):

 

 

Dragonflies

My mum just made these very quickly, with an old pair of earrings:

Twists and ladybirds

Here are the ladybirds decorations that I showed you yesterday. I also made some Fimo twists, and I varnished it with a special Fimo varnish my mum got on the internet.

The twists look really nice and shiny! I also tried sticking some little gems onto the twists. It was difficult, I had to use tweezers:

To start with it looked really nice, and I took this picture,

but the next morning they all fell out. So now I have to think about a different way of sticking the little gems.

Ladybirds

Look at my crab apple tree, it has lots of red apples.

Yesterday we made lots of new things. With some earrings from Claire's I made some lady bug decorations for my hearing aids. 

My mum separated the lady bird from the earring,

and I made the decoration using the method I explained here,

I hope you like them! I am going to wear them today.

More twisters... and lots of other things!

Yesterday a little friend visited, and we spend the afternoon making decorations for our hearing aids. We made some more twisters with Fimo, like these,

and these,

and these:

We also made some dangling charm decorations,

and my friend's mum brought some fantastic nail foils, and I tried them for the first time! They are great:

What I wore today

Today I wore my purple hearing aids with the new charms. This is what they look like :

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.

Smartie charms

We found these charms, which look like smarties,

And we made some charms for my hearing aids, they look like this:

Charm decorations

Once you know how to make dangling charm decorations, you can make lots, like these ones:

Tutorial: Difficult star charm decoration

Today we have been making lots of decorations with stars!

This is a difficult one. My dad made them using a pair of clip-on earrings from Claire's. We also used a small toggle clasp, which we bought online. We only use the round bit of the clasp, not the stick bit. We also used some wire:

First you have to remove the decoration from the earring itself:

That leaves you with a small ring, and from that ring hung the sticks with the stars. Here is the ring:

Using some small pliers, you have to open the small ring:

It looks like this:

Then you take close the ring around the toggle clasp, like this:

And this is the end result, two hanging star decorations:

Tutorial: Easy heart charm decoration

As well as using beads, you can use charms to make decorations for your hearing aids. You can buy charms on bead shops, for example online. I sometimes go with my mum to a really nice bead shop, where the lady always helps us find the best charms.

Here are two heart charms. You will also need wire, two small silver beads, and two jump rings.

You put the wire through the hole on the bead, and fold it back:

You add the little silver bead:

And then you add the jump ring. You then fold the wire down, and twist it around itself. This is the end result. I hope you like it!