Craft 1: Seashell wind chime. Perhaps you know from a few years back that I created a simple summer centerpiece by painting a bunch of seashells and putting them in a square vase/jar. Well, I've used this centerpiece for the past few years and I felt like the shells weren't working to their full potential, so I decided to repurpose them into something new. I came up with the brilliant idea of a wind chime, and I have to say that it came out pretty good. It was a basic project. I got a wooden letter G from Michael's, drilled four holes in the bottom and one on the top for a hanger. Then I took 12 shells of varying sizes and drilled holes in those. Pro tip: when drilling through a shell, use a masonry bit, not a wood drill bit, it will break the wood ones. Anyways, so after the holes were drilled, I attached one shell laying flat to the G. This shell was the base for the rest of the chime. I attached the smaller shells, two to a line, on the four ends of the base shell. I also attached a larger shell to the middle, as sort of a buffer, and added two shells to the bottom of that as well. All in all, it came out looking real cute, and it sounds pretty when the wind blows, so it's a win all over. For the sake of the craft, I'm including these pictures here.
Materials: drill, drill bits, letter of your choice, shells, fishing line, and a pencil to mark your drill spots.
Drill spots marked
Holes drilled
Ready to be attached
Final product!
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