How to Make Graduated Pony Bead Bracelets

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Square feature of two graduated pony bead bracelets. One has neutral brown and caramel color beads with a carved looking daisy bead as a spacer. The second bracelet is colorful in multicolors like red, purple, pink, aqua, bright greens with a sterling silver heart at the center.

Learn how to make graduated pony bead bracelets with a simple, summery look. These easy bracelets come together with pony beads and colorful elastic cording in whatever colors you like.

Photo of bags of pony beads in multi-color and browns that were used in this graduated pony bead bracelet.
Supplies

Supplies

  • Pony beads (multicolor and brown on Amazon)
  • Elastic stretch cord
  • Decorative spacer beads (optional)
  • Scissors
  • Tape

Graduated Pony Bead Bracelet DIY – Video

YouTube video

How to Make Graduated Pony Bead Bracelets – 4 Easy Steps

STEP 1:

Start by cutting two pieces of elastic cord about 22″ long. Tape them to your work surface, leaving a couple of inches of extra cord at the top past the tape. Slide your first bead to the center of one cord then take the other cord and feed it through the same bead but in the opposite direction.

Photo showing masking tape to hold down the ends of two colorful elastic stretch cords and starting to bead a graduated pony bead bracelet. This photo shows on pink bead with criss-cross cording technique. The bead is feed onto one cord and the second cord is feed through the bead on the opposite side.

STEP 2:

Next string two beads onto one of the cords then feed the second cord through the two beads in the opposite direction. Push the bead up as you go and repeat this process—below is a chart with patterns to follow. Check out the video above for more details!

Photo showing how to feed the second cord through two beads to make a graduated pony bead bracelet.

STEP 3:

Add a spacer bead between each graduated bead set, if desired, and repeat the pattern until the bracelet reaches your preferred length.

For reference: My wrist measures 6.5 inches, and for the boho daisy bracelet I added one extra row of three beads. Use the chart below as a guide, or create your own pattern.

Photo showing a graduated pony bead bracelet almost finished with a spacer charm in between graduated rows of colorful beads.
Chart showing two different bead pattern for the graduated pony bead bracelet. One is for a looser fit with addition bead rows added. Here is the first pattern in row format: one bead, then two, three, two, one, decorative spacer bead (repeat 3 more times). For a looser fit on the boho daisy bracelet I repeated this pattern but added one extra row of three beads to one of the sections. The rest remained the same as the original pattern.

STEP 4:

Finish by tying all of the cords together with two overhand knots. Snip away any excess cording. Check out the video above for more details!

Photo showing the finished bracelet on a wrist that has been tied with two overhand knots. The ends of the cord have not been snipped away yet.

Multicolor Pony Bead Bracelet
Photo a neutral boho style pony bead bracelet featuring an acrylic daisy flower bead in the center that looks like a wood carved flower. The surrounding pony beads are in a pattern that go... one bead, two beads, three beads, three beads, back to two beads, back to one bead. Then a flower charm and the pattern repeats in neutral brown, caramel, dark brown and creamy white pony beads.
Boho Flower Pony Bracelet
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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Tissue Paper Rainbows
Closeup of the top of a wide mouth jar upcycled into a fun and colorful pencil holder. The jar is full of color pencils with a citrus slice pattern in yellow, orange,, green and magenta on the jar. The top has a wrap of raffia to echo the summer pattern.
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Key Tag Charms

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