String and Straw Leis

My niece made my little girl this beautiful Lei. I thought it was fun I have worn it for a few days at my daughter's request.

The construction is easy once you have the supplies. Some sort of yarn or string (this one is made out of poofy thick yarn and it helps the flowers and straw beads stay in place nicely!), paper flowers, and cut up pieces of a straw for beads. You will also need some tape to put on the ends of the yarn to make it easier to thread through the beads.

My daughter and I did our own version on this with small photos of herself and her family. It was a really fun charm necklace filled with mementos of our favorite outings. Quick tip though..... when we punched the holes they were a little bigger than the straws that we bought at the store and we had to use a larger straw like the kind you find at McDonald's so the straw's wouldn't slip through the holes we punched in the photos.

Here is another get idea for making flower leis
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10492

Here are some flower necklace printables from Wondertime Online as well. Click here for the link! As well as a How to on lei's thier way! Click here to see.