How to Make a Candy Stripe Friendship
Bracelet
We will need:
6 strings, 100 cm each
1. Tie the strings in a knot and stick them to a
table or attach them to your jeans with a safety pin.
Take the first red string and make two knots on the next
red one. This knot is called a forward knot. It is very
important that you make the knot correctly.
2. Continue making forward knots on the rest of the strings
with the first red one. Next, take the second red string and
make the same knots until you reach the end again.
3. Keep tying forward knots from left to right with the other
strings. So you get two rows of red knots, two of black and
two of white, etc.
4. This bracelet is pretty simple to make. After you finish,
make a braid (2-3 inches) with a knot at the end.
This is what it looks like:
Bracelet Guidelines:
- Use the provided string and instructions (feel free to
use any colors you want).
- After you have completed a bracelet, write your name
and age on a tag and attach it to the bracelet.
- Have fun and be creative!
- Return the bracelets with tags attached and the camera
in the enclosed envelope.
Sandy Spring Friends School
16923 Norwood Road
Sandy Spring, MD 20806
February 11, 2013
Dear Senora,
Our names are Lauren Stettz and Erin Mena, and we are
currently high school students at Sandy Spring Friends School,
located in Maryland, USA. We took part in a program that showed us
how to develop a non-profit venture. We were introduced to your
school, Mi Refugio, through our Middle School Spanish teacher, Ligia
Molina-Gorton. After hearing about your amazing school and the
wonderful things going on there, we decided to develop our venture
around supporting Mi Refugio.
Our venture is called Painting Perspective. You can learn more
about Painting Perspective through our website
www.paintingperspective.weebly.com. The goal of our venture is to
create artistic opportunities for the children at Mi Refugio by raising
funds for needed art supplies. However, instead of just sending
donations, our hope is to develop a relationship between our two
schools. We feel that there is a lot we can learn from Mi Refugio.
We have an idea in which the students at Mi Refugio would
create friendship bracelets with the materials and instructions
provided. These bracelets would be sent back to Sandy Spring
Friends School and sold to our school community and through our
website. All the proceeds from the bracelet sales would go directly
toward future art materials for Mi Refugio. In America, friendship
bracelets are popular with both boys and girls. We are confident that
the students at Sandy Spring Friends School would purchase the
bracelets knowing that the students at Mi Refugio created them.
Lauren and I hope that if you choose to take part in this project,
we will be able to continue the ‘art exchange’. Along with this letter
we have included all the needed supplies and instructions for making
the bracelets. We have also included a disposable camera, and hope
that you will take pictures of the students as they work on their
bracelets. We would need to receive the bracelets by early May in
order to sell them before our school year ends. We are confident this
idea will work and we are exited about getting to know your school
and students through their artistic creations.
God Bless,