Camino crafts - loom bands

I said that I wouldn't make any of these when they came out but one niht at Guides one of the patrols was making them as part of their camping Go For It! and one of the girls insisted I had a go and I really enjoyed it!

There are lots of instructions on the Internet about how to make loom bands so I'm not going to give you any here but just give you a few ideas. Loom bands are easy to make and cheap to buy plus they are really light so they would make a good gift for someone going on Camino or for someone going on Camino to give to family members when they set off.

I bought Camino blue and yellow bands (scented of blueberries and bananas so I guess you could use the loom bands for a couple of days to make your boots smell nice!). Each packet has 250 bands in each and cost £1 each.

There have been a few headlines on kids having the bands stuck on their fingers so I used a fork to make my loom bands on.

I experimented a bit and found that 3 lots of nine bands of each colour made a bracelet of a good length or nine lots of three bands of each colour did.

There are many different styles of loom bands out there to try - this one is dragon scales!

I made these out of just over 600 bands -12 of them

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