Easy DIY Basketball Team Earrings Craft

How to Make Beaded Basketball Team Earrings

easy basketball team earrings craft

This easy basketball team earrings craft is made with simple supplies and can be personalized with your favorite team’s colors.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced jewelry maker, these beaded earrings are fun to make.

They really are easy and no special skills or tools are needed to assemble your hoop earrings.

It’s fun to make a pair for yourself or you can make a bunch of them to give to other basketball fans.

This would also be a fun group craft activity for a youth sports team or kids’ club.

Use the same colors as I did or choose team colors for your favorite youth, school or professional basketball team.

Basketball Beads

Each of these sports themed hoop earrings has a cute bead that looks like a little basketball.

The basketball shaped beads look great and are easy to use, just like any other bead.

There are beads just like mine and others that have a slightly different size or color.

Any of these are good for these earrings, so it’s just a matter of preference.

If you are just into basketball, you can get a whole pack of beads that are all basketballs.

Or you can also get a mixed package of beads that includes footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, soccer balls and other sports balls, as well.

Colorful Polymer Clay Heishi Beads

I love the look of small, flat heishi beads for homemade jewelry, so I have a big supply in assorted colors in my craft stash.

Traditional heishi (pronounced hee-shee) beads are formed from a clay made from ground up shell or stone powder.

Today the term is used for a variety of flat disc shaped beads.

The most common type of heishi beads used for DIY jewelry crafts are made from polymer clay and come in a wide variety of colors.

These beads are lightweight, so they are a good choice for making jewelry that is comfortable to wear.

They can be purchased as strands of beads, packages of loose beads and boxed jewelry making kits with beads organized by color.

Typical size of the beads is 6mm wide by 1mm thick with a hole that is 2mm in diameter.

Beads are readily available to match the team colors of your favorite team for the DIY beaded basketball team earrings or you can just choose any colors you like.

Hoop Earrings for Jewelry Making

Cute hoops are fun to wear and easy to work with, when you are making handmade jewelry.

Earring beading hoops are readily available in a variety of sizes and finishes at very reasonable prices.

You can get a package that includes all the same size and shape hoops or an assorted multipack that you can use to make a lot of fun hoop earrings.

A pack of hoops for making many pair of earrings is often less expensive than a single pair of fashion earrings at a discount store.

For this pair of basketball earrings I used round 1.2″ silver tone hoops, since that is a good size for me and many others – not too big and not too small.

You are welcome to use whatever size works for you.

If you are using bigger hoops, you may want to add more heishi beads than I did for the 1.2″ hoops.

Polymer clay beads are light, but if you are adding more than I did on a larger hoop make sure the earrings will still be comfortable for you.

If you want to use smaller hoops, make sure the hoops are still big enough to accommodate the cute sportsball bead.

Where to Buy Jewelry Supplies Online for The Basketball Team Earrings Craft

AliExpress has a huge selection of jewelry making supplies at super low prices – incredibly low prices. Plan ahead when you order, since shipping can take longer than US based companies.
Amazon also has a good selection of supplies and shipping can be very fast.
Beebeecraft has beads from around the world, jewelry findings and craft supplies with free shipping on orders over $25.

DIY Basketball Team Earrings Craft

Supplies / Materials

Blue Polymer Clay Heishi Beads (24 for a pair of earrings)
White Polymer Clay Heishi Beads (8 for a pair of earrings)
Basketball Beads (2 for a pair of earrings)
1.2″ Ear Hoops (or another size)

Tools/Equipment

None

Instructions

1) Gather your supplies and make a plan for how you will arrange the colorful heishi beads and basketballs. Do yours exactly like mine or choose different team colors. This is the order of my beads:

3 Blue Heishi Beads
2 White Heishi Beads
3 Blue Heishi Beads
1 Basketball Bead
3 Blue Heishi Beads
2 White Heishi Beads
3 Blue Heishi Beads

2) Open up the hoops and slide the heishi beads and basketball beads onto the earrings.

3) Enjoy your new sporty basketball team color earrings!

Easy DIY Basketball Team Earrings Craft