Let the kids' creativity run wild with these handmade projects using beads, clay, and office supplies. With their new baubles, they'll never have to borrow your jewelry again.

There's no finer necklace for summer than a string of colorful beads. And when you make the beads yourself, they're sure to look especially pretty. Use a mixture of white bread, glue, and a few drops of lemon juice to make a perfect clay that can be colored with acrylic or tempera paint mixed right in.

Transform colorfully wrapped candies into mega-karat baubles. All you need to create these sweet necklaces are a bag of wrapped candies and a stapler.

Craft a ghostly necklace using simple supplies.

With plaid ribbon, hot glue, a coin, and pin, you can make a smart-looking accessory that will dress up any lapel.

We used only the finest materials -- crepe paper, a feather, and stars and ribbon -- to create this chic pin. After all, a party calls for fancy wear. The concept is simple: Layer items on a triangle precut from card stock, then add a self-adhesive pin backing (available at crafts stores).

Dress up your little one's outfit with a flower brooch made from lace trim.

Use our rose, peony, and dahlia templates to make a one-of-kind flower brooch.

Attach these cheerful silk poppies to pins or barrettes.

These fabric-flower bands will be a hit with your daughter and her friends. Start by snipping fabric flowers, such as the vintage ones shown here, from their stems. Wrap ribbon around your finger to determine the approximate length you'll need; cut ribbon to size, adding about 1/4 inch for overlap. Use a hot-glue gun to join ends together, forming a loop, and to add flowers to ribbon bands.

A wristful of paper-and-metal key-tag charms (found at office supply stores) makes its own music. The charms on this bracelet are adorned with two sizes of dot stickers.

It's hard to believe these glitzy bangles began as humble paper-towel tubes. Prepare for the party by slicing the tubes into rings with a utility knife. Wait until kids are finished decorating before you snip the rings open for wearing -- gluing is easier when they're still intact.

Kids can add an eerie style to their look with these fun bangles. Their friends won't believe their eyes.

Shape clay into hearts by hand or with cookie cutters, and string with a silk cord for a charming necklace or bracelet.

Use any grosgrain ribbon to make one -- or more -- of these preppy accessories.

Once you show kids how to link flowers, they can make a long bohemian strand, a demure choker, or anything in between.

Collect pretty buttons and string them on elasticized cords for stretchy bracelets that can be worn or swapped with friends.

Use shimmering pink and red stickers to create an adorable heart-charm bracelet in no time.

Let kids add a playful splash of color to their wardrobe with felted accessories.

These pom-pom bracelets are easy and fun crafts for any kid to make. Pom-poms with holes in them are threaded onto clear stretchy cord and tied off with several double knots.