How To Make Rubber Band Bracelets - 10 Favorite Rainbow Loom Patterns

Are Rainbow Looms the rage at your house?   They are at ours and the colorful safety bands are everywhere!   I don't know what our kiddos like more, wearing the bracelets, creating them or gifting them to their pals.  Nosotros adore DIY jewelry  and friendship bracelets. We have our favorite fun bracelet crafts for kids of all ages and adults to make.

These safe ring bracelets are fun to brand…and the coolest thing ever!

Rubber Band Bracelets Kids Can Make

All of these bracelets require a rainbow loom and a collection of loom bands.   <— This article contains affiliate links in case you didn't become ane for Christmas!

Crafting safety ring friendship bracelets from elastic bands with different patterns is a fun craft for kids by yourself or with your best friend or sibling. With a bit of practice you will exist making pretty bracelets in no fourth dimension.

Here are our favorite ten Rainbow Loom prophylactic band bracelets tutorials to brand with your kids…

Easy Rainbow Loom Bracelets Kids Tin can Brand

one.   Fishtail Band Bracelet Pattern

Allow's brand a rubber band bracelet in a double fishtail design

Afterward the single chain bracelet, the fishtail is the easiest bracelet for your kids to start out with.  The pattern is easy plenty for our newly five twelvemonth old to create on her own.

Craft Supplies Needed:

• 20 bands of a low-cal color
• 20 Bands of a dark color.
• 1 claw.
• 1 Loom

Directions:

Here is a video tutorial and so you can create your ain fishtail ring bracelets.

2.   Double Fishtail Band Bracelet (aka iv prong "Dragon Scales")

Once your kids have a skillful grip on the design "routine" of the regular fishtail bracelet, they will have fun adding some variations – similar this colorful double fishtail.

It is super easy for kids to make and after making the double fishtail a couple of times, you can graduate to the wider "scales" versions also featured on the video.

Supplies Needed:

• sixty Bands – 20 Pink, 20 Purple, 10 White, 10 Yellow.
• One Claw.
• 1 Loom

Directions:

The tutorial video is for "dragon scales" – nosotros call the thinner version a double fishtail as information technology looks like ii fishtails side-by-side.

3. Rainbow Ladder  Band Bracelet How To

This colorful bracelet is looks crawly, and as many of the bands are double stacked, information technology is the perfect bracelet activity for an older sibling to create with a younger child.   The younger kids can follow the blueprint created and add the 2nd row of bands.

Supplies Needed:

• vii of both brilliant colored bands: Red & Light Blue
• eight of the post-obit: Orange, Yellow, Green, Dark Blue, Purple, Pinkish rubber bands
• 14 Black Bands
• 1 hook
• 1 loom

Directions:

This easy step past step loom tutorial video will accept yous creating a rainbow ladder pattern with ease!

4.   Minecraft Creeper Band Bracelet

Using the same tutorial equally the Rainbow ladder, supervene upon all the colored bands with brilliant light-green ones.   You will need 54 light-green bands and 14 black bands.

Create your green and black ladder.   Turn the bracelet facing in so the black "creeper" line is visible.

Your minecraft fan will beloved it!

5. Super Stripe  Band Bracelet

This bracelet is pretty advanced.   It seems that most of my kids favorites are the thicker bracelets.

Directions:

This is some other one where older kids can probably exercise the hooking, and preschoolers can put the bands onto the loom.   The video tutorial from Justin Toys is very easy to follow.

six.   The Zippy Chain Band Bracelet

This bracelet was the most frustrating ane and so far, as information technology took a couple of tries to get the bands hooked in the correct club, only the finished product looks great!

Supplies needed:

• 27 Blackness bands for the border.
• 12 low-cal blue bands
• 22 White Bands
• 1 hook, 1 loom.

Instructions:

Here is the steps to make this rubber band bracelet via video.

7. Colorful Starburst Band Bracelet

Let's make a starburst pattern safety band bracelet!

These are so bright and cheery!   They are more complicated, probably better suited for an unproblematic or middle school child to make on their own, only our preschoolers savor filling the loom for me to hook the bracelet together.

Supplies Needed:

• 6 Different Colors, with half dozen bands in each – you will need a full of 36 colorful bands
• 39 Blackness Bands
• i hook
• 1 loom

Directions:

Here is the video tutorial on how to brand a Starburst pattern rubber ring bracelet. You volition want to brand the black edging first and and so create each starburst.   Be sure to put a "cap" of black at the middle of each burst of colour.

8.   Taffy Twists Band Bracelet

This is a skilful "first" complicated bracelet.

My older preschooler was able to exercise this one by herself after a trial run.

Supplies Needed:

• 36 bands of "similar colors" (ex: 12 white, 12 pink, 12 red)
• 27 Edge bands (ex: Black or White)
• i hook
• i loom

Directions:

The tutorial is created by Rainbow loom and is very detailed.

nine. Sun Spots (aka X-Twister) Band Bracelet

This bracelet looks completely different when y'all change the colors. Nosotros call it our Sunny Spot, only other tutorials have called it "X-Twister" and "Liberty".

Supplies needed:

• 27 border bands – nosotros chose orange.
• xx Similar-color bands – we chose cerise.
• 12 Bright Bands – we used Yellowish.
• xiii Cap Bands – we used Pink.
• 1 claw
• 1 loom

Directions:

Bank check out the video tutorial.

10. Feather Safety Band Bracelet Design

This i is a little more complicated and can take some fourth dimension, but older kids really volition enjoy the challenge and the feathery outcome.

Supplies Needed:

• 47 black rubber bands
• viii band colors each: red, orange, xanthous, light-green and blue
• iv imperial and pinkish condom bands
• i hook
• 1 loom

Directions:

Check out this easy to follow step by step educational activity guide video from Rainbow Loom Room.

FAvorite Rainbow Loom Kit & Accessories

Rainbow looms brand bully gifts because they inspire corking ideas and kid-lead creativity. It is a perfect birthday gift, fun vacation souvenir or the most astonishing thing to take subconscious away for a rainy twenty-four hours.

• This is the original Rainbow loom kit that includes enough rubber bands to make up to 24 condom ring bracelets.
• Rainbow Loom Combo with Loomi-Pals Charms that comes in a plastic conveying case.
• 2000+ Rubber band refill kit with contrasted colors and a plastic bear box.

If your kids brand band bracelets, take a photo and put them up on our facebook wall.   We would love to see them!

More Rubber Ring Bracelet Ideas & Tutorials

• Check out this post from our blogging pal, Amy at Teach Mama for a loom-gratuitous bracelet tutorial your kids volition love.
• Get one from Amazon here
• Want more Fun Band Bracelet Tutorials for Kids?  Nosotros have ten more rainbow loom bracelet ideas!

Which safety band bracelet design are you lot going to make for the first time? If you have made them before, which safe band bracelet design is your favorite?

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