Wednesday 22 April 2015

Earth Day 2015 - Eco Bead Craft Kit Review and Giveaway


Today is International Earth Day 2015 and to mark the occasion we have been sent the Eco Bead Craft Kit from Interplay to create our own jewellery made from recycled scraps of paper.

 The Eco Bead kit from interplay is aimed at children aged 8 years and above and includes the tools and accessories needed to make beautiful beaded jewellery. You just add the paper!


My son (who will be 8 in the summer) and I got out the kit to create some beads together.
I love up-cycling and reusing things so the idea of recycling paper to create some funky jewellery really appealed to me, Ben loves anything crafty and decided he wanted to make a bracelet for his little sister.

The My Style Craft kit includes 3 different types of template to cut out the correct shapes of your paper ready to make them into beads. We decided to use some old newspaper that was waiting to be recycled, some wrapping paper and some scraps of coloured paper from our craft box. One great thing about the shape of the templates is that they are long and thin so you can genuinely use scraps of discarded paper or even ripped newspaper.



Once we had cut the paper it was time to use the curling tool, despite this being quite small it was simple to use and really effective, both Ben and I easily got the hang of it and I actually found it quite cathartic! As you roll the paper around you gently dab the PVA glue on to it and then glaze with some more glue afterwards. To allow the beads to dry the kit includes a foam mat and cocktail sticks to stand them on. (We did find that you got rather sticky and the glue got everywhere so I would suggest covering the table with newspaper first.)



Once the beads are dry (we left ours overnight) you can get creative with the provided accessories to turn your recycled paper beads in to beautiful bracelets, earrings and more! One thing to note is we found the thicker string quite difficult to thread through the small decorative seed beads but it was fine with the paper beads that we made.

We created a pair of newspaper print bead earrings and a bracelet made from recycled wrapping paper.



I think the newspaper print earrings look great and will wear them proudly! I also love the idea of trying this with old books that have been damaged, I think they would look really effective and go fantastically with the Romeo and Juliet real page fragment pendant my husband bought me for our anniversary.

Another fabulous idea for this kit is to up-cycle old pieces of your children's artwork, I love how Anna from In the Play Room created beads with her children's bubble paintings.

If you really haven't got any paper to recycle you can print off colouful templates from the Interplay website ready to create beads with.

Ben and I really enjoyed using this kit together and he is really proud of what we created.

The Eco Bead craft kit is available from Amazon and John Lewis and has an RRP of £7.99 which I believe is really great value as you get plenty of accessories included and when these are used up you still have the tool that you could make plenty more beads with and use ribbon or wool to display them. I can see this getting a bit addictive!


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123 comments:

  1. My little girls would make anklets! They love wearing them in the Summer! Me too!

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  2. Bangles I think

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  3. Some bracelets.

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  4. Probably bracelets, necklaces etc.

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  5. A lovely necklace i think!

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  6. Probably necklaces they love wearing them

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  7. probably necklaces and bracelets with our grand-daughter

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  8. bracelets

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  9. Ooh ... a pair of earrings for me and some necklaces for the kids

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  10. A nice necklace

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  11. we would make bracelets and earrings for us all :)

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  12. me and my daughter would make some bracelets thankyou

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  13. We would make earings x

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  14. A nice bracelet.x

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  15. I would just let our imaginations go mad and see what happens.

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  16. We would make some bracelets for them and their friends

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  17. Definitely a pretty necklace.

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  18. Necklaces and bracelets

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  19. I would make a fancy bracelet

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  20. my son likes to make friendship braclets for him and his friends this would be a great way to jazz them up

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  21. A nice bracelet!

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  22. Some necklaces to give as homemade gifts!

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  23. A bracelet for Nana

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  24. Linda F McGarrigleWednesday, April 22, 2015

    Bracelets my girls can't get enough of them x

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  25. Leigh Marea BoyleWednesday, April 22, 2015

    bracelets these love them =) xx

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  26. a pair of earings

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  27. Pretty bracelets

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  28. A long necklace :)

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  29. The children love to make bracelets

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  30. Elizabeth (Liz) BriggsWednesday, April 22, 2015

    I would love to make a matching bracelet and necklace with my daughter x

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  31. my daughter loves earings

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  32. bracelets and necklaces

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  33. My daughter would love making bracelets for her friends

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  34. I love this idea - Our house is full of scraps of pretty paper that Tara is practising writing her name on - She would love to make them into bracelets!

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  35. sarah diane reesFriday, April 24, 2015

    Bracelets

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  36. I'd love to use some pretty craft paper to make some bracelets.

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  37. I love the look of those earrings! What a great idea!

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  38. Isn't that a great idea, that's christmas presents from your kids sorted then.

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  39. we would make bracelets xx

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  40. Harley RichardsonFriday, April 24, 2015

    Necklace x

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  41. Bracelets x

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  42. melanie stirlingFriday, April 24, 2015

    We would make bracelets.

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  43. Ooooh earrings, bracelets, pendants and those thingies that you put on zips to help pull as well as decorate (makes it easier for little ..and not so little fingers to zip/unzip stuff) xx

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  44. Thanks so much for joining in with #weekendcreations x

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  45. What a brilliant craft! Would love to try this, think we'd make bracelets

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  46. Laura Jayne BatesSaturday, April 25, 2015

    some earrings

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  47. probably some earring for my Mum

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  48. Kirsty Hijacked By TwinsSaturday, April 25, 2015

    They look so pretty, I really do wish I was more creative! x #weekendcreations

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  49. bracelets for us

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  50. My daughter would love this, we'd definitely recycle some drawings and make a necklace x

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  51. I'd make bracelets with my niece x

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  52. my grandaughter and i would make bracelets for grandad lol

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  53. Maybe some earrings

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  54. pretty bracelets

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  55. I think my daughter would like a long necklace that she could pull over her head. She's 2 and is obsessed with some of mine.

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  56. My son loves making bracelets <3

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  57. some bracelets.

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  58. My 9 year old daughter would love to make bracelets

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  59. Leona S FisherSunday, May 03, 2015

    Bracelets!

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  60. As I have a little boy (who loves craft) we will make necklaces for teenage ninja superheroes!

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  61. We would make bracelets together

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  62. book page earrings I think

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  63. My son and I would probably use some of his drawings and make necklaces

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  64. Some bracelets

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  65. Michelle DaggerFriday, May 08, 2015

    A necklace!

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  66. bracelets

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  67. Rosalind BlightSaturday, May 09, 2015

    necklaces

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  68. I know my daughter would love to make necklaces

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  69. Would get grandaughter to make me some earrings

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  70. Claire Thomson LittleSunday, May 10, 2015

    bracelets :)

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  71. Kitty BywatersTuesday, May 12, 2015

    Pretty bracelets for each other and some to give away as gifts.

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  72. A necklace!

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  73. A bracelet for mil.

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  74. LeeLee Doodygirl Mse NewsomeSaturday, May 16, 2015

    A bracelet

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  75. bracelets

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  76. Something simple to start with, like a bracelet

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  77. Danielle Louise CresswellSaturday, May 16, 2015

    A comic book necklace with my son.

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  78. Kristy Leanne BrownSaturday, May 16, 2015

    A bracelet

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  79. A bracelet - but multicoloured to go with all outfits :)

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  80. matching bracelets

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  81. Caroline BlazaSunday, May 17, 2015

    Bracelets

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  82. bracelets and necklaces :) x

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  83. Allan FullartonSunday, May 17, 2015

    A bracelet

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  84. matching necklaces x

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  85. Rachael Jones MannSunday, May 17, 2015

    bracelets and necklaces

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  86. We would make some bracelets for presents for family and friends

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  87. Pauline WilsonSunday, May 17, 2015

    We would make earrings out of old magazines

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  88. A bracelet

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  89. christine westlakeSunday, May 17, 2015

    bracelets

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  90. Patricia AverySunday, May 17, 2015

    I think my grandaughter would love to make bracelets. She loves her loom band ones :)

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  91. stephanie lovattSunday, May 17, 2015

    My daughter would love to make necklaces

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  92. I think my niece and I would love to make bracelets.

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  93. My daughter loves making bracelets

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  94. We'd make bracelets

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  95. Matching bracelets

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  96. Nicola HollandSunday, May 17, 2015

    Some bracelets for us, and as gifts for family and friends

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  97. My niece would love to make a necklace

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  98. we would make necklaces and bracelets and then we would have to have a fashion show to show them off with lots of photos :)

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  99. We are loving braclets in the house at the moment.

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  100. Laura PritchardMonday, May 18, 2015

    I'd get them to make me a pretty bracelet :-)

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  101. Id make fab jewellery

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  102. The kids love making

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  103. My daughter would make bracelets.

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  104. Natalie CrossanMonday, May 18, 2015

    Bracelets xxx

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  105. Matching necklace/bracelet set

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  106. I'd make some pretty bracelets with my two little sisters =)

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  107. Bracelets with my daughter who loves making them for her pals

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  108. bracelets with my niece

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  109. Denielle NicolMonday, May 18, 2015

    Bracelets :) Dxx

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