Using a simple chain stitch, your kids can create lots of fun crocheted belts, necklaces, bracelets, and other accessories, including items for their rooms.
Kids can make cute items from yarn, twine, embroidery floss, ribbon, rawhide, fabric, or strings of tiny beads.
Pick up different sizes of crochet hooks for these projects. You will need small ones for twine or floss and large for heavier materials.
You will need lengths or material about two to three yards long to make belts and things of that nature, while you can generally “guestimate” the sizes need for other projects. For a bracelet, wrap the yarn around your child’s wrist then add at least 50% more material.
Holding two or more strands of different colored materials together and crocheting both at the same time will create an even more interesting look.
Using an extra large crochet hook, loosely chain stitch two or three different colored strings of tiny beads such as seed beads together to make a cute belt. Some beads are strung on flexible wire which will also work great as it retains the shape better.
When you get to the end, twist or tie the ends together. Add a belt enclosure, found in any fabric shop, craft shop, or notions section of your favorite store. You can also make a tiny loop at one end and sew a large button the other end for a closure.
The same process can be used to make curtain tiebacks, swags to place over a window or mirror, or to create attractive trims for existing décor elements such as lampshades.
For smaller items, use thinner materials and smaller hooks. You can use tighter stitches is desired, depending on the look you want to achieve. You can use several strings of crocheted material together to make the simple belts and scarves in the previous article.