What could I make from many many small bangles?

These are quite small child size ones made mostly of metal and some plastic ones.
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  • Sandy Slade Sandy Slade on Mar 12, 2017

    A Boho chandelier or sun catcher for your garden maybe.

  • Sally Gutowski-Smith Sally Gutowski-Smith on Mar 12, 2017

    That's a good idea thanks

  • Shoshana Shoshana on Mar 13, 2017

    You can make it into pretty cool wall art...you can make an abstract design or shape the bangles into flower petals. Have fun!

  • Donna Donna on Mar 13, 2017

    I would use them to make a rain chain. You could find a way to connect them and spray paint them to unify the colors. You might be able to cut the plastic ones and spread them apart just enough to attach them. Could be very fun.

  • Lucy~Caitlyn Lucy~Caitlyn on Mar 16, 2017

    I have thin metallic ones I put three together by interlocking them. Use invisible thread or fishing line to secure top and bottom. Hang them as Christmas ornaments. Use the stuff you secured them with, ribbon or crochet a chain of embroidery silk and use this to hang.

    Make a mobile= Follow above stages then get a small tree branch and hang from ceiling with fishing line (makes it appear to be suspended in mid air.

    Hang bangles at various lengths.

    Make tissue paper fish =

    Use plastic or less pretty metal bangles.

    Coloured tissue paper.

    Glue for tissue paper.

    Felt tips/crayons

    Sequins (optional)

    Florists wire/thin wire (optional)

    1 sheet of tissue paper folded in half to length of finished fish.

    Draw round 1 bangle on folded tissue paper.

    Draw around this circle slightly larger.

    Draw a simple fish shape using larger circle as mouth, and as long as wanted.

    Make body width at least that of mouth, wider is better.

    Draw on eyes, scales, fins, tail.

    Add scales made from sequins, tissue paper ext (optional).

    Cut out fish shape, including larger circle.

    Unfold tissue paper and put bangle on smaller circle.

    Put glue around larger circle and fold over bangle edge.

    You should have 2 fish bodies hanging off bangle which has central hole still.

    Lay fish down so that one body is on flat surface.

    Roughly scrunch tissue paper and put in centre of fish head & body, NOT tail or fins.

    If using wire put this in fins, tail not around outside edges. Need to leave small gap at edges.

    Put glue around edge of fish body, including tail & fins. If wire used put glue thinly on either side of wire.

    Don't get scrunched paper in the way of the glue.

    Carefully lay second fish body onto first, edge to edge with paper in the centre, and covering paper and wire.

    Allow to dry.

    Gently bend tail/fins if wired. Could make streamers of tissue paper for tail.

    Hang fish from back or tail where it joins body and top of mouth.

    Takes longer to write directions than to make :-)

  • Sally Gutowski-Smith Sally Gutowski-Smith on Mar 19, 2017

    Thanks, I like the idea of the fish but I'm finding it hard to visualize, have you any pictures you could post please?