DIY Rainbow Wood bead Garland

Celebrate and decorate your Tiered Tray for summer with an easy, fun, and colorful DIY Rainbow Wood Bead Garland! This garland is a statement piece that’s perfect to craft and decorate with for Pride Month in June, or even if you simply just love Rainbows like me. Either way…Love is Love!

DIY Rainbow Wood Bead Garland to craft, decorate, and celebrate summer or pride month in June. With a "love is love" hang tag and a handmade black and white tassel.

I definitely don’t need an excuse to craft with all the colors of the rainbow, but if you do need an excuse, then Pride Month in June is the perfect reason to make this DIY Rainbow Wood Bead Garland.

Wood Bead garlands are so much fun to make, and you can make one in any theme under the sun. Name a theme, any theme, and I guarantee someone has made a wood bead garland in it! The last one I made was a Snowman Wood Bead Garland for Christmas, and this Rainbow one won’t be the last.

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Supplies Needed to make a Rainbow Wood Bead Garland

DIY Rainbow Wood Bead Garland on a rectangular 2 tiered tray as decoration for pride month.

Wood Beads- 20, 25, and 30 mm
Rainbow colored paint
Twine
Metal hang tag – I got mine at Dollar Tree Crafters Square
Alphabet stickers
Buffalo check ribbon

How to Make a Rainbow Wood Bead Garland

I made this beautiful Rainbow Wood Bead Garland on video, so you can WATCH the step by step tutorial HERE or by clicking the below pic.

Amanda holding the completed project on a Facebook live thumbnail

Watch the video tutorial here

Wood bead garlands can be intimidating, but they are extremely easy to make. First you just choose your beads and decide on what pattern you want the sizes and colors to be. For this one, I chose Rainbow colored, obvi, and then I used 3 different sizes to mix it up.

I decided to do each color portion in a certain pattern. The pattern I used was 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm. So each color has 6 total beads, in that order. You 100% do NOT have to use the same pattern as me! You could even do them all the same size.

**(I actually messed up my own pattern as you can tell if you look closely and count the beads above, but SHHHHH…I’m explaining the pattern that this was SUPPOSED to have.)

5 yellow beads on a garland in a particular order to show the pattern of sized beads.

6 Red – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm
6 Orange – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm
6 Yellow – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm
6 Green – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm
6 Blue – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm
6 Purple – 25mm, 25mm, 20mm, 25mm, 25mm, 30mm

Then separate your beads into piles for each color that you’re going to paint them. There are a few different tricks to painting wood beads, but my favorite by far is to put them on skewers and paint them one by one that way.

Some people swear by putting them in a baggie or in a bowl and mixing them around with paint, but for me I think the paint gets too think and chunky and super hard to dry so I prefer the skewer method. Do what works for YOU!

Once your beads are all painted and dried, string them onto a piece of twine in pattern above. Tie several knots on each end to keep the beads in place.

Tie the end of the handmade tassel to the twine on the end of the beaded garland.

The tassel is probably the hardest part of this project, but it’s still super easy! You can check out the Facebook Live replay and scroll to minute 43:00 to see exactly how I made this DIY tassel. Tie your tassel to the end of your Rainbow Wood Bead Garland.

Handmade Tassel with black and white bakers twine.

Last thing is to add the galvanized metal hang tag. I first put the phrase “LOVE IS LOVE” in fun black and white patterned alphabet letters on the hang tag. Then add a small buffalo check shoelace bow to the top of it, and tie it to the opposite end of the Rainbow Wood Bead Garland.

Galvanized metal hang tag with stickers that say "love is love" and a small buffalo check bow. attached to the end of the beaded garland.

There you have it! An adorable and colorful garland to add to your summer sunshine and rainbows tiered tray, or a fun way to decorate and celebrate Pride Month this June. Perfect for any Tiered Tray!

Are you going to make this Rainbow Wood Bead Garland or any other Pride crafts this year? If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your completed DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations!

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