Introduction: 🎃✨ Pumpkin Bead Necklace – DIY Halloween Accessory ✨🎃

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Looking for a unique accessory to celebrate Halloween? This handmade necklace combines elegance with festive spirit. Featuring black and white beads for that classic Halloween contrast, orange flowers resembling tiny pumpkins, and a central pumpkin charm crafted with orange and green beads for the pumpkin and its leaves, this piece is perfect to complete your costume or add a thematic touch to your outfit.

Not only is it a versatile accessory, but it’s also a fun project for anyone who loves creating with their hands. You’ll learn how to string beads, design patterns, and play with Halloween colors to make an original piece that stands out in any celebration.

Follow the steps to make your own pumpkin necklace to wear or gift this Halloween! 🎃🖤🧡

Supplies

Materials:

  1. ✨ Orange thread (for extra decorative touch)
  2. ✨ 0.3 mm nylon thread (for stringing the necklace)
  3. ✨ Beads:
  4. 8 mm orange (central pumpkin)
  5. 4 mm white
  6. 4 mm black
  7. 1 mm orange (details)
  8. 1 mm light green (leaves)
  9. 3 mm dark green (leaves)
  10. 3 mm silver or golden(decorative details)
  11. ✨ Crimps (to secure the nylon)
  12. ✨ Lobster clasp (for the necklace closure)
  13. ✨ Gold or silver jump rings (to connect pieces and closure)

Tools:

  1. Needle-nose pliers (for opening rings and securing crimps)

Step 1: Make the Pumpkin Charm

Prepare the pumpkin base:

  1. Take an 8 mm orange bead.
  2. Optional: Wrap some orange thread around the middle to give it a “waist,” making it look more like a pumpkin and less like a simple orange.

Create the pumpkin ribs:

  1. Cut about 50 cm of nylon thread.
  2. String 7 orange 1 mm beads and pass the nylon through the central bead to form the first rib.
  3. Repeat until you have 8–12 ribs, evenly spaced.

Add the leaves:

  1. For the first leaf, string 10 light green 1 mm beads.
  2. Pass the nylon through the first 3 beads and cross the thread between them to secure the leaf against the pumpkin.
  3. For the second, smaller leaf, add a 3 mm dark green bead in the middle of other green beads.
  4. Attach a gold jump ring here—it will be the ring for hanging the charm.

Secure and finish:

  1. Tighten the remaining nylon, hide the excess ends between beads, and trim.
  2. Your pumpkin charm is now ready to be added to the necklace. 🎃✨


Step 2: Start the Necklace

Prepare the first end:

  1. Take a gold /silverbead and slide a gold/silver jump ring through it.
  2. Use pliers to close the ring securely.
  3. This will be the end with the closure loop.

Insert the nylon:

  1. Cut about 150 cm of nylon thread.
  2. Pass both ends through the gold/silver bead so the bead sits in the middle, giving you two working strands.

Secure with a crimp:

  1. Place a crimp bead near the gold/silver bead and squeeze with pliers.
  2. Press gently but firmly so the nylon stays in place.
  3. You now have a double-strand base for the necklace, giving it strength for the next steps. ✨

Step 3: Assemble the Necklace Body

Follow the bead pattern:

  1. Pattern: 1 black → 2 white → 1 black → 2 white → 1 black → 2 white → 1 black → 1 orange flower
  2. The first 10 beads (black and white) are easy—just thread them on the two strands of nylon.

Add the orange flower:

  1. Insert the flower after the 10 beads (explained in detail in the next step).

Repeat the pattern:

  1. Alternate the black-and-white beads with the orange flower until you reach your desired length.
  2. The length depends on how snug you want the necklace.
  3. In my example, I repeated the pattern 12 times and finished with just the black-and-white beads (no 13th flower).


Step 4: Make a Bead Flower

Insert the first horizontal orange bead:

  1. After the 10th bead, string 1 orange bead on one strand.
  2. Cross the other strand over the bead, forming an “X” inside it.
  3. This makes the bead sit horizontally as the flower base.

Add the rest of the flower beads:

  1. On each strand, add 2 more orange beads.
  2. Bring both strands together and pass through 1 green bead.

Form the flower center:

  1. Take the right strand and cross it through the 2 right green beads (bottom to top).
  2. Repeat with the left strand.
  3. The green bead now sits in the middle, forming the flower’s center.

Close the flower:

  1. Add another horizontal orange bead, like the first.
  2. This completes the flower.

Continue the necklace pattern:

  1. Join both strands and continue the black-and-white bead pattern until the next flower or end of the necklace.

✨ Your necklace now starts to take shape with its Halloween-inspired details, combining elegance and creativity.

Step 5: Finish the Necklace Closure

Prepare the final end:

  1. Like the start, take a gold/silver bead and slide a gold/silver jump ring through it.

Insert the clasp:

  1. Place the lobster clasp into the jump ring before closing.

Secure:

  1. Use pliers to close the ring tightly so the clasp stays firm.

Step 6: Attach the Pumpkin Charm

Find the center:

  1. Identify the midpoint of your necklace.

Attach the charm:

  1. Thread both nylon strands through the gold/silver jump ring of the pumpkin charm.

Secure it:

  1. Adjust the charm and squeeze with pliers if needed.
  2. ✅ Your pumpkin charm is now firmly in place!

Step 7: Tips & Variations


  1. 🎃 Add more pumpkins if you want a bolder look.
  2. ✨ Include Halloween-themed charms or charms that match your costume.
  3. 💡 Play with colors to make it unique to your style or outfit.


Step 8: Enjoy Your Necklace

Congratulations on finishing the tutorial! 🎉

Now your Halloween pumpkin necklace is ready to wear, gift, or pair with your costume.

I hope you had as much fun making this necklace as I did creating this Instructable for you. 🖤🧡🎃