Jewelry

• Kids can easily make a broach or a bracelet with safety pins and pony beads. Layout a pattern for the beads so they create a design when you place them together, like a flag, a butterfly or anything with a simple shape or groups of colors. To make a pattern, print an image or draw a picture of what you'd like to make close to the length and width of your safety pin. You can place the pins on the picture and determine how many of the same color beads you need and in which order. Make sure you leave room to close the safety pin when you insert the pony beads over the sharp point. Consider hanging the beaded pins, side-by-side, dangling vertically off of another colorful safety pin to make a broach. You could also make a cuff bracelet with the beaded pins by joining them together with strands of stretchy beading cord through the heads and the loops of the safety pins. Group them in sections of three, turned so that you have a head, loop, head on one end and loop, head, loop on the other. Separate the groups from each other with pony beads; make as many as you need to go around your wrist. Tie the end safety pins together in a strong double knot to finish your cuff.
  
  

Decorations

• Once you know the basics of how to design a pattern and how to connect the pins together, you can make a variety of decorations for the holidays or your home in addition to making jewelry. Make a Christmas tree with five beaded safety pins hanging in a row, connected tightly at the top and separated at the bottom, with two pony beads between each one to shape the bottom of the tree. Other decorations, like angels, are made with two different sizes of safety pins, size two for the wings and size four for the body. Decorate your home with safety pin tea light holders made with two rows of crystal beaded pins, joined together with wire or cord, and separated by pony beads.
  
  

Clothing

• Make a fashion statement with beaded safety pins connecting shoulder seams or accentuating a neckline. Select coiless pins so there is no loop and bead both sides of the safety pin. Remember to hook the pin through the fabric halfway through beading. There really is no limit as to how you can decorate clothes with beaded safety pins. The pins can hook with the heads beneath the clothing, so all you will see are strips of beads. Select crystal beads for a more elegant look, or wooden beads to create a casual accent. Line the back of the pins with felt or fabric so the metal will not touch your skin. A swatch of fabric will also help hold your pattern in place. Stitch it on or use fabric glue for a quick solution.