Wednesday, July 20, 2011

creative key chain




cute n easy to do key chain



materials: tin cap, wire, jump ring, pair of doll eyes, semi-sphere plastic capsule (can be obtained from toy machine)

equipment: plier, pencil (or round object), wire cutter, glue


Steps:

1)Using a hammer and nail, make a small hole in the middle of the semi-spherical plastic capsule (for head).

2)Substituting for pencil, here, I used a drinking straw. Roll the wire around the straw to give you spring-like wire(neck) with the length around 3cm. Cut off the wire only after leaving another 3cm of straight wire.

3) Wrap the straight-end wire to one end of tin cap (body) and secure it.

4) Using the other end of the wire, poke the wire through the hole made on the capsule from the concave part. Then make a small loop with the wire and insert the jump ring.

5)Glue a pair of eyes on the capsule.


There you have the key chain.
You can also make hand and leg using thicker wire by securing/wrapping them to the tin cap.