DIY Lego Jewelry

Necklaces, bracelets and earrings made with Legos are beyond easy to make and a great way to reuse your favorite childhood toy. :D

The last picture shows a huge batch of necklaces I made in one day!

I have a ton of necklaces up for sale in my etsy shop if you'd like one: making jiggy on etsy!

Step 1: What you'll need...

For the earrings:

• posts + backs (sold in bulk at most craft stores)
• Legos of desired size
• Aleene's Platinum Bond 7800 glue OR E600 glue

Before someone asks - I recommend these glues because I've used them before in other projects (Playstation controller button earrings!) and I know that they work amazingly well to adhere metal and plastic. The bond will last for years - I made the controller button earrings over 6 years ago and they're still fine. Plus, both glues dry clear. :)

For the necklaces:

• drill with a 1/16 bit
• jump rings (sold in bulk at craft stores)
• your choice of necklace chain (sold in bulk at craft stores)
• clasps/closures for chain (also sold in bulk)
• small selection of pliers

The necklaces allow for more customization, as you'll see. :)

Comments

[Cissy Green]

Gorgeous and you are wonderful dear :)

[barista]

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[jessyratfink]

It makes sense, but I don't think I can adopt it, ha! It's hard to change the way you talk about something when you and everyone you know has been calling them Legos for years and years. :P

It was very hard to be as consistent as I was. Very tricksy.

[sherrycayheyhey]

I respect you for not adopting it.

Barista spammed that same thing to a few other Instructables and his explanation isn't even that good since he doesn't mention that LEGO is a combination of two words and that LEGO is the trademark. When talking about the pieces branded as LEGO, referring to them as pieces of LEGO or a pile of LEGO is incorrect as well.

[EchoJackpot]

Im making a buisness with these and i think they could rake in some money!

[jessyratfink]

To be honest, I haven't had much success with them. I've been selling the necklaces on etsy for 10 months now and hardly any takers... maybe 4 or 5 sold? Right now I've got them listed at $5 just hoping to get rid of them. :P

The earrings sell like crazy at craft fairs, though, if you do $2-3 a pair.

I think the internet is just too clogged with lego jewelry!

[savagediana]

Hi, I've been wanting to make awesome LEGO jewelry for a while now, and I wondered if you might have any specific tips on drilling plastic?

[monsterlego]

cool, i do this a lot with the huge Lego gears, and the Lego chains(you can adjust size that way) you can definitely go insane with this, great job!

[amott1]

I Have Just One Word For You :
A M A Z I N G
;D

[jessyratfink]

Ha, thank you!

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Looks fun. What if you wore two or three and connected the legos while you were wearing it?

[jessyratfink]

That would be really cute, I bet. I added legos to the larger white one while I was making it and it looked really neat.

I'm also thinking about using one of the larger flat base legos as a necklace - you could really customize that. :)

[Penolopy Bulnick]

You could really go crazy and make huge Lego Bling!

[ynze]

Gold plated Lego bricks!

Great project! 5 out of 5!

[SHIFT!]

Awesome! I imagine this is exactly the kind of thing that would do fantasic on Think Geek!