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Beaded Froggy Keychain
Kick-art your summer with making a beaded froggy keychain.
Items needed: String, a keychain ring, beads, and scissors.
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Our first step will be attaching the string to the keyring
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And making sure to pull it tight!
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Then we can start adding our beads
Both strings should be sewn through the beads coming from opposite directions.
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The first row will be our snout, and the next the eyes! So grab beads to be whatever eye color you want your frog to have
(The pattern is 3 beads then four)
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The next row will be the arms. Four beads should be added for the body the same way as the previous parts.
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The arms are a bit different, first thread the beads leaving the fingers last on the string, and then loop the string back through the arm beads
Make sure to pull tight!
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Now our frog needs a body, I've used a center bead to show how many rows of body I am adding.
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When we get to the legs we repeat the same steps we used at the arms.
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Then once our frog is complete we need to tie the loose strings. This can be done in different ways, I have knotted the string to itself, but you can use glue, or running the string back through and tying it off at another end.
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Last but not least, display your frog!
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