DIY // Wordless Book Bracelets

Hey y’all!  Are you familiar with the wordless book?  It’s a tool to use to present the gospel, particularly to young children.  It has five pages, each with a different color, and each color represents a different aspect of salvation.  Last year I was asked to make a bunch of wordless book bracelets for a VBS, and recently I was asked to make more for a children’s ministry.  They are extremely simple and easy to make, so today I would like to show you how!

You will need:

--Plastic beads in black, red, white, gold/yellow, and green.

--Cording (see picture below.  It is similar cording to the type I used for the photographed bracelet for this post).

--Scissors.

This type of cording would work

  First, cut off a strand of your cording.  This strand should be pretty long.  The strand I am holding in the below photo can wrap around my wrist more than twice, I believe.

  Now, begin stringing your beads on.  Remember!  The color sequence is black, red, white, gold, and green.  It would make sense to put green before gold, but the way we taught these specific kids is that the gold color comes first (we taught them with a song).  Feel free to do it whichever way you like.

  After stringing the beads on in the middle of the cord, tie a knot on either end to keep the beads in place.

  Tie a knot on one end of the cord.

  Now, with your other end, tie a knot around the cord on the opposite side of the beads.  This knot should be tight enough to not come undone easily, but loose enough to slide up and down the cord.  This is how you will tighten the bracelet to fit your wrist.

  Try your bracelet on, and slide the knot to tighten it.  You can wrap the excess cord under the bracelet, like shown below.

This bracelet is a great gift for kids!  The goal is for them to be able to share the gospel with their peers through explaining what the beads stand for.

 

  Here is a simple summary of the meaning of the colors:

Black – each of us have a sin nature.  It is impossible for any human to be perfect.  We all do bad things and have fallen away from God.

Red – A long time ago, God sent His only Son, Jesus, to earth to become a man to save sinners.   Jesus was both man and God.  Jesus lived a perfect life and then suffered a terrible death, shedding His blood, to save us from our sin.  We need to believe on Him in order to be saved from our sin!

White – when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, He forgives us and washes our sins away!

Gold - because we have accepted Jesus as our Savior, when we die, we will go to heaven to live with Jesus Christ forever!

Green – if we are truly saved, we will grow to become more like Christ.  We will want to please Him and do things for Him!

  There are many other ways to present the wordless book as well!  I’ve painted my fingernails with each of the colors before.  And then of course, there’s always the basic book, which would be easy to make with colored cardstock paper and staples.

  Also, I have a REMINDER about the blog-versary Q+A!  The deadline for that is Saturday, so if you have not submitted questions yet and would like to, please see this post and comment away!

  Have a great afternoon!