When making a cheap necklace with beads collect some beading thread and be sure to add three more inches than the desired length in order to give yourself some room to work with and gather your beads. You will be able to find a wide variety of beads of differing shapes, sizes and designs in the market. You may also want to use some spacer beads to distinguish them from normal beads, these help give an attractive design to any jewellery. In addition to the beads, thread and spacers you wil need a clasp and two bead tips which are needed to secure the ends of your necklace. When you have all these materials at hand you are ready to begin making your cheap bead necklace.

First, lay out all your beads out on the floor, a table or any other flat surface and a towel is also a good idea to stop them rolling about and getting lost. Try to come up with a design for your necklace or take inspiration from magazines or websites to get an idea of where you want to go with it. You should at this point determine the stringing of your beads, this si best achieved by simply laying them out one after the other and seeing what it looks like, rather than trying to do it entirely in your head. Taking the thread and forming a knot on one of its ends simply place a dab of crafting glue on the knot; this will stop it from unraveling halfway through your endeavors and start stringing your beads and then thread the other bead tip and make another knot slightly loose in order to give yourself some room to push it into the end bead, the way you do this is take a needle and wrap the thread around it, take the thread as near as you can to the bead while removing the wire and slightly pull it apart while at the same time pushing the knot next to the bead to hide it.

Now to finish you need to join the loops at the end of each bead and you may accomplish this by setting a clasp piece onto a bead tip hook using the pliers to close one ring over the other. Simply repeat the process on the other end and congratulate yourself, you now have a cheap bead necklace.