Weaving bracelets from rubber bands on a slingshot - this is the first master class from which acquaintance with a new needlework technique should begin, which today is popular not only among preschool and school-age children, but also among parents. With this activity, you can have fun with your family, introduce children to creativity and create original decorations for the summer with your own hands, as well as cute souvenirs for your friends.
In addition to bracelets, you can also make other crafts on a slingshot using the rainbow loom set. A flower from rubber bands can be made without a machine using only hooks, and on a slingshot you get original figures of animals and fruits.
Fishtail bracelet pattern on fingers
- Place a figure eight rubber band on your fingers.
- Add 2 more elastic bands, you should have 3 figure eights on your fingers.
- Swap the middle and bottom elastic bands without removing them.
- Throw it into the center.
- Put on the next elastic without twisting it.
- Throw the bottom elastic band into the middle.
- Repeat these steps until you reach your desired bracelet size.
I recommend watching the video: how to weave a fishtail rubber band bracelet on your fingers!
Weaving bracelets from rubber bands... fish tail
Black snakes
Forming different shapes using rubber bands is good fun for children and adults. You can make fancy snakes using rubber bands and a hook. Execution scheme:
Start by securing the garter to the hook three times.- Pass 2 elastic bands through the center, creating a shape as shown in red in the image.
- Finish the snake's head. Take a couple more rubber bands and go through the center of all 6 shapes that form the snake's head. Place one end of this pair through two elastic bands and pull them through.
- Crochet through the middle of the shapes that form the snake's head and secure with a red garter, passing it through the center, connect the 6 head shapes, and then pass through the center of the other end of the red chain, pull, and the snake's tongue is ready.
- Weave the body using weaving techniques to make common pendant bracelets.
- Start from the end left over from the two chains with which you finished the head, twist them along two pencils separated by an eraser.
- Place another pair of ribbons on top of the curves.
- Then pass the other end of the curved garters to the center and begin weaving the leather.
- Once the snake's body is the desired length, pass the bottom chain over the pencil, securing the piece.
The snake is ready and can serve as a bunch of keys, toys and ornaments.
Scheme of a French braid bracelet on a slingshot
You will need: rubber bands of two colors - for example, red and blue, a slingshot, a hook.
- Take the slingshot in your left hand, the two columns should point upward with the notches facing you.
- Place a figure eight on the first red elastic band.
- Put on in the usual way, without twisting the next two elastic bands, alternating colors (for example: blue-red).
- Hook the bottom left elastic band, then remove it from the post and lower it between the posts.
- Hook the bottom right elastic band, then remove it from the post and lower it between the posts.
- Place the next rubber band on the posts, changing the color.
- Use your hook to slip the middle red elastic from the left post.
- Use your hook to slip the bottom blue elastic from the right post.
- Weave in this way until you reach the desired size of your bracelet. Then, when the last two elastic bands remain on the posts, remove the bottom elastic bands one by one using a hook.
- Throw the last elastic band from the left post onto the right column, hook two elastic bands with one of the hooks on the clip, then remove the bracelet from the slingshot.
- Hook the initial figure eight rubber band with the second hook of the clip.
- Connect the bracelet into a ring.
I recommend watching the video master class!
French braid bracelet made of elastic bands. How to weave a French braid bracelet from elastic bands.
A couple of ideas for the inexperienced
You can fantasize shapes, starting with simple and ending with complex shapes. Before using complex structures, it is recommended to understand how to slingshot weave.
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It is always easier to use than a machine, even when assembling complex objects. It is advisable to practice with simple projects first. You will encounter various problems, but you cannot give up. You can use a fork.
Diagram of a “dragon scales” bracelet on a three-row machine
You will need: a classic loom with 4 posts, elastic bands of two colors, a hook, an S-shaped clasp.
- Move the middle row of the three-row machine one post.
- Put two rubber bands on the posts.
- Start with the bottom row of the first column, and the second row of the middle column which is offset one to the left.
- Place the elastic on the second row of the first stitch, on the bottom row of the third stitch, on the bottom row of the second stitch, and on the middle row of the third stitch.
- Complete two rows.
- Turn the machine over.
- Place an elastic band, twisted in half, onto the middle outer post.
- Remove the bottom elastic band from the middle outer post.
- Place the elastic on the post on which it is attached on the reverse side.
- Remove all the rubber bands and put them on the posts where they are attached.
- Secure the weave.
- Put on the hook clasp.
I recommend watching this video!
How to make a bracelet from rubber bands. Style Dragon Scales on the Rainbow Loom machine
Rainbow hobby for kids
Parents love the toy for its inexpensive price and variety. Kids love this activity because it's fun and they get to swap bracelets with friends, strengthening kids' friendships. This game is not only a fad, but also a necessary element of child development. Rainbow Loom bracelets develop important skills in children such as:
- Focus.
- Patience is necessary in studying.
- Be creative when planning color combinations and deciding to use different weaving patterns.
- Persistence. The child trains and acquires the valuable quality of achieving results, which will be useful to him in other hobbies.
- Motor function. Placing tiny rubber bands together on a loom or on a fork requires coordination of movement.
- Visualization. By working with Rainbow Loom, students develop the ability to visualize things, an important skill in mathematics.
- Imagination. To create specific pattern bracelets on Rainbow Loom, children learn to use their imagination.
- Self-esteem. Children love to show off what they have prepared themselves. This is a way to become sociable, acquire social skills and develop a desire for mutual assistance.
Double "dragon scales" on a slingshot
You will need: a slingshot with 4 posts, a hook, a clasp, 86 black and 42 colored elastic bands.
Master Class
- Position the slingshot with the indentation facing you.
- Place a figure eight of red elastic on the 2 middle posts.
- Place a figure eight of black elastic on the right and left posts.
- Throw the red rubber band behind the post.
- Place a pair of pink elastic bands on the middle posts, wrapping them twice.
- Remove the lower middle black elastic bands by the columns.
- Fold the black elastic band in half, then place it in a figure eight on the right posts. Do the same with the left columns.
- Throw the bottom row of rubber bands behind the columns.
- Continue weaving in the same pattern and do not forget to alternate the colors of the rubber bands.
- Finish weaving when there are black elastic bands left on 4 columns, then remove the elastic bands from the outer columns to the middle ones.
- Weave by throwing the bottom elastic bands over the posts.
- Transfer the elastic bands from one column to another, then put on the S-shaped clasp and connect the ends of the bracelets.
The double rainbow “Dragon Scale” on the slingshot is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!
Bracelet made of rubber bands Double Dragon Scales on a slingshot of 4 columns (mini-machine)
Some figurine ideas for beginners
After preparing the tools and materials, you can begin to work. For beginners, here are instructions for weaving the following figures:
- banana;
- heart;
- spider;
- star.
Banana weaving using the lumigurumi technique
Due to the fact that the banana has a very simple shape, you can start learning the lumigurumi technique with it. To make it, in addition to the slingshot and hook, you will need 20 yellow and 4 black rubber bands.
Mermaid braid bracelet pattern
You will need: elastic bands of two colors, a plastic hook, a transparent clip, a slingshot or a cocktail tube bent in half.
- Put on a light green elastic band in a figure eight shape.
- Place a pink elastic band on the right post of the slingshot, twisting it 2 times.
- Place the light green elastic band over the two posts in the usual manner without twisting.
- Use a hook to hook the bottom light green elastic band through the pink elastic band.
- Move the loop to the center of the top light green elastic band.
- Place the next pink elastic band on the left post of the slingshot, twisting it 2 times.
- Place the next light green elastic band over two posts in the usual manner without twisting.
- Crochet the bottom two light green elastic bands through the pink elastic band.
- Move the loop to the center of the top light green elastic band.
- Place the next pink elastic band on the right post of the slingshot, twisting it 2 times.
- Place the next light green elastic band over two posts in the usual manner without twisting.
- Pull 4 loops (2 pink and 2 light green) through the pink elastic band.
- Place them in the center of the weave.
- Place the next pink elastic band on the left post of the slingshot, twisting it 2 times.
- Place the next light green elastic band over two posts in the usual manner without twisting.
- Remove 4 loops from the left column in the center.
- Place the next pink elastic band on the right post of the slingshot, twisting it 2 times.
- Place the next light green elastic band over two posts in the usual manner without twisting.
- Remove 4 loops from the right column in the center.
- Weave the entire bracelet in this way.
- Place the clear plastic clip over the first and last stitches.
I recommend watching the video master class!
MERMAID BRAID bracelet made from Rainbow Loom Bands | Bracelet Rainbow Loom
Butterfly and caterpillar made of rings
Craftsmen make different figures with rubber bands to decorate weaving and keychains for girls. They are easy to make, so children will enjoy playing with fun crafts. Execution algorithm:
- To form the body of the butterfly, take a black garter and apply it three times to the hook.
- Then take two more black elastic bands and push them through the center, separating them with the main elastic band. One side will be A, the other will be C, and the center will be B.
- Since the figure is made of two ribbons separated by a central one, you need to install the two ends on a large hook. Pass one end through the center of the other and pull out.
- Do the same thing, put the two ends on the hook and pass one end through the center of the other, pull, thus creating the “skin” of a butterfly or caterpillar.
- Leave it while the butterfly wings or caterpillar body are being completed.
- Crochet the colored ribbon three times. Take two more rubber bands and go through them. Repeat this step until 4 equal loops are formed.
- Take the butterfly body obtained in the previous step and place the loop on the hook.
- Since there is a loop end set on the hook and butterfly wing links, the rest of the body is done so that the chain is secured and closed.
- The butterfly is finished.
