Plastic Beads—Cheap But Versatile in Jewelry Making

Jewelry making can be expressive and cheap, which depends on your projects. If you want to create sparkling, high-end jewelry pieces, the Swarovski crystal, silver, gold etc are your choices. If you just want to create inexpensive but fashion, beautiful jewelry designs, jewelry beads like plastic beads (acrylic beads), glass beads and others are what you need.

Crapy Exterior Acrylic Beads

If you are a new young jewelry maker, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are a great choice for you to start, as they inexpensive, colorful and virtually indestructible. Plastic beads are available in various types, such as transparent, imitation, CCB (metalized), spray painted, drawbench, plating, antique, printed, crackle and others. Even thought the material is acrylic, these plastic beads can show you different effects. Let’s take imitation plastic beads as example. They can be produced like shell & pearl, jelly, gemstone, foil glass, clay, animal skins, wood, coco, amber and many others. That is to say, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are versatile and can help you to create jewelry pieces in different styles.

Apart from their various effects and styles, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are a great way to add fun shapes, for example, the commonly used shapes are round, oval, flower, flat round, cube, drop, square, bicone, and other popular shapes are start, heart, butterfly, twist, leaf, rice and some others. One of the most popular plastic beads is pony beads. They are used by both kids and adults for a large variety of beading projects and craft projects. They are a great multi-purpose bead. Kids will back to school soon. Why not use some pony beads, number beads or alphabet beads as school spirit bracelets for them as gift for their new term? I am sure they will love this gift very much. If possible, you can also ask your kids to create this kind of bracelet with you together. They can present the bracelets their made to their friends as friendship bracelets.

Solid Acrylic Beads

Even though the plastic beads (acrylic beads) are very cheap and not the choice for creating high-end jewelry pieces, they are produced very well with endlessly improved techniques, and widely used in fashion jewelry, including necklace making, bracelet making, earring making, anklet making, ring making and many other fashion decoration making. No matter what kind of fashion and style you like and want to create, plastic beads (acrylic beads) can help you much. What is more, they are easily to be purchased, and you can get a wide range of selection if you purchase them from jewelry beads online wholesale stores. 

Acrylic & Plastic Beads—Supplies for Kids Jewelry Making

Plastic beads or acrylic beads are one of the most popular jewelry supplies for kid’s jewelry making. Fashion jewelry for kids created with plastic beads are available in various styles, colors and designs, as these jewelry beads are produced in different types and styles, and they can be easily found in a plenty of different colors, sizes, shapes and designs.

Frosted Transparent Acrylic Bracelets for Kids

If you are a beginner of jewelry making, start your jewelry making by creating jewelry for kids is a good choice, and colorful acrylic & plastic beads are your best choice. Plastic beads (acrylic beads) can be produced in various different effects, for example gemstone style, glass style, metal style, shell & pearl style, clay style, wood style, foil glass style and many others. So, this kind of jewelry beads can help you to create jewelry like glass, gemstone, metal and etc, and you can easily create a fabulous jewelry for your kids, no matter which style they like. Apart from that, they are much cheaper than other jewelry beads.

If your kids like glass beads jewelry, you can choose plastic beads (acrylic beads) in fashion frosted transparent glass beads effects for them. You can string all the plastic beads in a single color on your clear elastic cord, and string a silver hanger on cord too. Then cut off the extra elastic cord and make a knot to stop the beads fall off. The last step is using a jump ring to attach a flower metal pendant on the silver hanger. A lovely glass beads effects bracelet is finished. You can also use these plastic beads (acrylic beads) in different colors on a bracelet. Kids will like them very much as they love colorful things.

Acrylic Beaded Bracelets for Kid

We also usually use satin ribbons to make kids jewelry, so you can choose some satin ribbons and colorful plastic beads (acrylic beads) to make some bracelets and necklaces. For example, you can prepare about 15pcs (depend on the size of kids’ wrists) round blue plastic beads (acrylic beads, about 14mm in diameter), and use blue satin ribbon to string them together. Make a beautiful butterfly knot for this bracelet to make it look more beautiful.

Kids want to get more different styles? It is not a problem. Plastic beads (acrylic beads) are produced so many different effects that you can easily find what your kids like. And what you need to do is searching a reliable beading suppliers and purchase items there. Finding a reliable jewelry beads online wholesale can help you get wide range of selection of jewelry materials, and save both time and money.