SUPPLIES: (to the right) - rainbow loom - hook - 2 colors- each with 18 bands (I used pink & purple.) - 1 color- 26 bands (I used yellow-green.) - 1 color- 6 bands (I used light blue.) - 1 c-clip
DIRECTIONS: 1) Start with the loom's arrows (the red arrow) pointing down. From the top of your loom, take your first color, (this is the one that needs 26 bands) and place it diagonally to the right and left. With your bands, keep putting them on going down so that your loom looks like this:
2) Keep placing bands on your loom. Make sure that once you reach the end of your loom that both ends of your loom look like arrows with the 2 diagonal bands like this:
3) Go back to the top of your loom with the arrows facing down, and grab one of your 2 colors, (this is one of your colors that needs 18 bands) and place one of these bands on your loom so that it looks like this:
4) Next, place your next band as if you were going clockwise like this:
5) Keep placing your bands on your loom going in a clockwise motion until you get this "star" shape:
6) Repeat the previous 3 steps until you have your whole loom covered with these star shapes. Just make sure to switch between your 2 colors.
7) Next, you are going to place these bands called "cap bands". Make sure to only put the cap bands in the middle of a star. You are going to stretch a band so that it goes around one peg like this:
8) Keep placing cap bands on all of the pegs that are in the middle of a star like this:
9) Next, with your hook, reach into your first star, (make sure the loom's arrows are still facing down) and pull back the cap bands. Grab ONLY the first band. Bring this onto the next peg, as shown below:
10) Repeat step 9 with the rest of that star as shown below:
11) Go into the bottom peg of the star you were just working with and grab that purple band. (or whichever color you're using) Put that band on the peg directly below it. (as shown below)
12) Use your hook, and move the bands as you did with the first star.
13) Repeat steps 11 & 12 all the way down your loom so that all of your stars are hooked.
14) Start at the bottom of your loom (with the arrows facing down). Reach into that peg, and grab the green bands. Hook them both diagonally left and right. Keep hooking the green bands on the left and right, until you make it to the top of your loom.
15) Stick your hook into the last peg, and very carefully, grab all the bands that are on that peg. Take the bands off the peg, but make sure that the bands stay on your hook.
16) Be careful, and pull all of your bands off the loom. Here's your bracelet!
17) To make it fit around your wrist, take a band and put it on the end of your hook. Being very careful, slide this through the other bands that are already on your hook.
18) With the remaining bands, repeat the previous step to make a chain link.
19) Connect both ends of the bracelet with a c-clip, and you're done! Enjoy your new bracelet!