DIY Creepy Keychains

With the help of the pattern guide, follow the steps below to make your own creepy skeleton keychain!

Join us at our Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch at 4 pm on Friday, October 28 to create a unique keychain in the shape of a skeleton, ghost or cat.

 

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Supplies

  • 9 Black Pony Beads
  • 78 White Pony Beads
  • Black Cord
  • Scissors
  • Tape
  • Key ring (could also use a zipper or lanyard hook)

 

 

 

 

Step 1

  • Using 2 yards of cord, find the 1/2 way point on the cord.
  • Tie the hook on so that the two ends of the cord hang down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2

  • Tape the keychain down to a hard surface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 3

  • Start at the top of the skeleton keychain pattern guide.
  • The first line of the skeleton calls for three white pony beads.
  • Starting with the cord on your left, string three white pony beads on.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4

  • Take the end of the cord on your right and loop it up through the three beads.
  • Repeat steps 3-4 for the next line of beads on the guide (four white ones).
  • After finishing a line from the pattern guide, the cords will be on the opposite side from the side that the cord was on during the previous line of beads.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 5

  • After you have finished the first two lines, some of the lines of beads require both black and white beads.
  • Remember to follow the pattern guide to know how many beads of each color is needed for each line of beads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 6

  • Continue working down the pattern guide until you finish the skeleton’s head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 7

  • The arms and legs are a little trickier than the skeleton’s head and body.
  • For each arm and leg, you will only be using one cord (the left cord for the left arm and leg).
  • String 10 white beads on the left cord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 8

  • For the arms, loop back up the end of the cord that the beads are on and weave it back through beads 4-6.
  • DO NOT weave it back through bead 7.
  • Instead, skip 7 and weave it through 8-10.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 9

 

  • After weaving the end of the cord through bead 10, pull the string down to tighten the arm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 10

  • Repeat steps 7 – 9 for the right arm (use only the cord on your right for this arm).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 11

  • Continue working down the pattern guide to complete the body.
  • The body is created the same way as the head was.
  • USE BOTH CORDS for each line of beads. Put the beads on the left cord and then weave the right cord back up through the beads.

 

 

Step 12

  • After completing the body, all you have left is the legs.
  • Like the arms, you only use one cord for each leg (left cord for left leg, right cord for right leg).
  • String 12 beads on the left cord.
  • For the legs, loop back up the end of the cord that the beads are on and weave it back through beads 4-7.
  • DO NOT weave it back through bead 8.
  • Instead, skip 8 and weave it through 9-12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 13

  • After weaving the end of the cord through bead 12, pull the cord down to tighten the leg.
  • Tighten the cord and tie a knot with the cord between bead 12 and the previous row of 4 beads (where the leg meets the hip).
  • Cut off the extra cord.

 

 

 

 

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Step 14

  • Repeat steps 12 – 13 for the right leg.
  • After cutting off the extra cord, you’re finished!
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