Below you will find a tutorial that I adapted from a recent teen polymer clay craft class I taught in June (2014). You will also see how the tube beads and round bead were made. All of these beads were made using the basic substitute tools I highlighted on a previous blog entry. There are easier ways to make tube beads, but this was what best fit their tools.
The students got to learn how to make: decorative beads, tube beads, and round beads. Also, how to create marbling, the difference between the outside and inside of a marbled cane, using slices of a cane to cover the round bead (this was a serendipitous moment of teaching created when a student exclaimed how cool the inside of the tube bead rope looked), what liquid polymer can be used for, and mixing inclusions into liquid polymer. Needless to say, it was a lesson packed with lots of new topics for the students!!!
The students got to learn how to make: decorative beads, tube beads, and round beads. Also, how to create marbling, the difference between the outside and inside of a marbled cane, using slices of a cane to cover the round bead (this was a serendipitous moment of teaching created when a student exclaimed how cool the inside of the tube bead rope looked), what liquid polymer can be used for, and mixing inclusions into liquid polymer. Needless to say, it was a lesson packed with lots of new topics for the students!!!