Charm necklace

By Spotlight

A perfect project to keep your tweens to teens creative!

Final Result

Materials

• Ribtex silver chain
• assorted beads, charms & pearls in the colours of choice
• 2 silver rings
• silver jump rings
• silver head pins
• silver eye pins
• silver toggle closure
• cutting pliers
• round nose pliers
• flat nose pliers
• bead board

Step 1

Cut a 28cm length of chain and attach a silver ring to each end using a jump ring. Cut 3 lengths of chain, one 13cm, one 19cm and one 30cm long. Using jump rings attach each end of all three chains to the silver rings.

Step 2

Using a jumping ring attach a pendant style charm to the centre of the shortest chain (or create a pendant as we have done with beads and a small charm on an eye pin). Add a small charm on each side of the pendant. Create some bead sets on head pins and attach to the next chain leaving a space in the centre for the pendant on the shorter chain to cover. Add short lengths of chain with charms attached to the middle chain as well.

Step 3

Attach another pendant style charm to the centre of the longest chain and continue to add beaded sets to the chain as desired. Cut two 12cm lengths of chain and attach one end of each to each silver ring using jump rings. Attach charms and beads along the chain and the ends. Cut the first 28cm chain in the centre and attach the toggle closure. Add beads, charms and chains to change the look of the necklace.