Making friendship bracelets is a great classroom gift idea for back to school, for Christmas for your teachers, and of course for Valentine’s Day gifts. DIY gifts are just so great to give to your classmates, teachers, family members, and friends. I can remember sitting in my bedroom as a teen with embroidery string and a clothing pin on my knee, making my friends’ bracelets. Great memories! Now my own teen daughter is learning how to make these fun and easy bracelets with a new book from Rocky Nook, The Beginner’s Guide to Friendship Bracelets.
Ideas Making Friendship Bracelets for the Whole Class
Here are 10+ ideas from the internet to get your ideas flowing. Of course, you can print your own ideas or even hand draw something to attach your bracelets to.
- Fruit of the Spirit Friendship Bracelet
- “Knot” Pun Classroom Bracelet
- Love Knot Bracelet Idea (make a friendship bracelet and use this pun)
- Back to School Double Bracelets (make a friendship bracelet instead of a beaded one)
- Minimalist Gift Tag with Bracelet
- Would Knot Be As Cool Printable
- Would Knot Have Been the Same printable (buy from Etsy)
- Hand Drawn Card Idea for gifting a friendship bracelet
- Would Knot Be The Same easy directions
- I’m Knot Lying printable for purchase on Etsy
- Knot Be Fun printable idea
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About The Beginner’s Guide to Friendship Bracelets
Celebrate your relationships and express your style with the ultimate guide to creating friendship bracelets!
From popular YouTube Creator, Masha Knots comes The Beginner’s Guide to Friendship Bracelets: Essential Lessons for Creating Stylish Designs to Wear and Give, a new step-by-step guidebook with easy-to-follow instructions detailing everything from how to get started and the best materials to use to knotting techniques and easy embellishments and customization tricks for adding your own flair.
Friendship bracelets aren’t just for summer camp anymore–they’ve exploded in popularity as a creative and thoughtful way to share a connection with loved ones, even from far away.
Author Masha Knots (aka Maria Makarova) is the go-to friendship bracelet expert who has amassed a following on YouTube and Instagram for her colorful, creative designs and approachable techniques. Now, with this book, she is sharing all her bracelet tips and tricks and her favorite designs, including patterns from simple to more advanced.
“Friendship bracelets have been around for thousands of years, and the art of making them spans multiple generations and cultures,” Makarova says. “People create and wear friendship bracelets for a wide variety of reasons. As the name suggests, many people make and gift these bracelets as an expression of friendship. Knotting a bracelet for a friend or loved one is a beautiful way of expressing how much you care for them, and wearing a bracelet made by a friend will always remind you of them.”
About the Author
Author of The Beginner’s Guide to Friendship Bracelets, Masha Knots is a handmade crafter and online content creator based in London. With over a decade of experience in making friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss, Masha creates video guides on her YouTube channel explaining the ins and outs of bracelet making. Her online tutorials range from simple bracelets explained step-by-step for beginners to more advanced friendship bracelet techniques and designs for the more experienced. Masha started her bracelet journey in 2009 when a friend taught her how to make a basic design over the summer. She quickly learned more advanced techniques and what could have been a simple summer activity turned into a lifelong hobby and career. She posted her first video tutorial on YouTube in the summer of 2010 when she discovered that very few tutorials are available online and realized she has the opportunity to help others learn the craft. After creating several video tutorials on and off from 2010-2015 Masha started uploading videos to her channel consistently in 2018 and by 2021 has amassed over 120,000 viewers sharing her passion for the craft. Now Masha is sharing her vast experience in friendship bracelet making in the form of a book to help even more people discover their passion for knotting.
