COMPLETE - Friendship Bracelet Making Patch

Friendship Making Patch/Paracord Braiding Badge
This was originally written up as our Legacy Friendship Bracelet Making Patch. It has now been converted into a Paracord Braiding Badge, with the Friendship Bracelet Making patch being earned by everyone at their first Scout Troop Meeting

Scout Name: Paul-Meronym

Date: 9/4/2017

Costs: ___Bracelet Making Materials___________     Patch - $1.69__________________________

Directions: Listed below are 10 steps to complete. After each one get Miss Anarcadia, or Beta-Pup to mark them off. At the end, turn in the sheet and patch fee to receive your patch (to be ordered). You may wish to take pictures or add  notes to the worksheet to show that each step was completed. Plus who doesn’t want to show off their hard work?

1. In a group setting, create a simple friendship bracelet out of colors that mean something to you and exchange with a new friend.

- We did this during the first meeting of Little Scouts


2. Challenge yourself to learn a more advanced braiding style, a step up from your current skill level.

- I learned to do a knot-chain hemp bracelet








3. Research, what is the history of the friendship bracelet?

- Though knot-tying was used in a lot of art for a long time, friendship bracelets have their root in macrame (knot-tying craft from 13th-century Arabia), sailors' knot-tying skills, and Central American Indian crafts. The friendship bracelet first appeared in the 1970s in the US. They can be made with embroidery floss, paracord, plastic lacing, , wire, hemp cord, leather cord, and other materials. There are a lot of patterns easily found online (www.braceletbook.com/history_of_friendship_bracelets.html)


4. Share four factoids about the history with a friend. Afterwards, present that friend with a bracelet.

- I talked about bracelet-making with our friend Sarah and gave her a bracelet, which she decided to wear as an anklet. We talked about all the points in Step 3.



5. Use the same technique for making a friendship bracelet for making another project such as a bookmark or a hair piece.

 - I made a new lanyard for my bitey. I used the connector ends from the black cord that came with the bitey, and made the braid-chain about three times as long as a bracelet. Then I tied the bitey onto it in the middle.



6. Make a bracelet for a fellow scout that you don't know as well as you would like.

- I made one during a Little Scouts meeting and exchanged with Preston


7. Challenge yourself to move beyond Step2. Create your most technical and highest string count bracelet yet.

- I braided new laces for our new vest. It's a four-strand braid of kangaroo lace over a core of paracord shell. The left side shows where I began the braid, and the right side is where I finished it. I showed a lot of improvement as I learned.













8. Teach fellow scout friends how to make one of the bracelets in this process.

- I taught Chip how to do a 3-strand braid so he could exchange his first one during a Little Scouts meeting.


9. Show pictures online of what you have learned.

- I put pictures in at each step above.


10. What other styles are there? Which ones appeal to you? Make a plan of what you want to learn.

- I've bought a box kit with instructions for paracord bracelets, and I'll probably do more with leather braiding sometime too. 




____________________ has completed all 10 steps and given payment to receive this patch.