Personalized Gift Idea For Aunts and Uncles– Keychains Out of Plastic Strings

Personalized Halloween gifts are always a great way to show your love and affection for your near and dear ones, especially your uncles and aunts who might not be staying at the same place as yours. String keychains come out as a great accessory item to gift. By giving them your own attention to detail and by knowing how to construct them, you would be ready to bring a smile onto their faces instantly. Before you contemplate on other personalized gifts for aunts and uncles, you should give this a try.

Here is the process which you can follow to have this personalized gift item ready. You will need key rings, plastic rings, scissors and a heat source.

a) Start with measuring your plastic strings. This will typically be thrice the size of your final product.

b) Slide two long pieces of different colored plastic strings through the key ring after folding them in half. This will prepare you for starting with the braiding.

c) Next take two strings and loop one around the front of your strings and the other around the back. A figure of 8 should form after you tie the laces which you can pull to make a knot.

d) You can make different patterns by doing the looping in various forms like continuing with the looping and tying with the same set of laces would give you a box pattern.

e) If you find that your first pair of laces is falling short, pick up the longer laces and keep going with your knot pattern. Your lose laces should all be in the center of the knots which will ensure that there are not many loose strings hanging off your keychain.

f) After you reach the length you desire, tie a knot at the end of your keychain. You can trim the ends by tying a knot if you want to leave some lace at the end. You can use the heat source to melt the ends of the laces if you do not want to keep that extra lace and then leave it to cool.

g) The last thing to do is to slide the keychain portion along the key ring. Make sure that it does not interfere with your keys. Attach the key ring to your keys and you are done.

This is a very simple way of creating a gift item which is both easy and does not require a huge amount of time. If you follow these steps diligently, you can have your keychain ready in no time. The personalization that you make will enrich the value of the gift and make it all the more sweet for your dear uncles and aunts on Halloween.