To make a beaded pen, you’ll need to buy the pens I show in the video…I bought one multi-colored set of pens on Amazon and silver ones from Temu. Most of the items I bought were in a single Temu order that I’ve linked below. I’m not affiliated with them, but find the prices I get from them are a lot lower than ones from Amazon. (For my safety when buying from Temu, I didn’t download their app and bought directly from their website using Paypal to buy the orders. Paypal puts a safety link between you and your credit card information so Temu doesn’t access that.)

You can find pens and beads in sets, with everything you need to create beaded pens, and I did that with the Halloween pens, and of course you can find Christmas sets.. When you look to buy a bead or spacer, make sure in the listing they show the product on a beaded pen so you know the hole in the bead or spacer is large enough to work on a pen.

I unscrewed whichever end I could, but it’s easiest if you unscrew the top and fill the rod from the bottom to the top. I used a small silver ball I had in my stash for some of the pens where the beads I used didn’t seem to work well with the bottom or top of the rod (you’ll understand this when you make your own pens). If you use a pen kit, you shouldn’t need to use the silver round bead but I didn’t always use kits.

You’ll want to use your largest bead at the very top so the pen is comfortable in your hand. I recommend you buying the spacers with rhinestones in them as they add a lot to the pens in terms of bling. I bought the big purple flowers on their own and they are rubber and work well with any beads. The butterflies came in a set and I found the spacers didn’t work well next to them, but the small pink/purple balls did. I used some things from my stash and tried to add listings to those below as well.

Once you fill your pen stem to the screwed area, stop. It might be easier to stop just below the screwed area, but it’s so easy to take the beads on and off, you won’t mind it if you need to add or remove a bead. I had a lot of fun making these and ended up making a lot more. I hope you give this craft a try as I gave three pens to my girlfriend and she loved them…one for her college age daughter, one for work, and one for at home. The more of these pens I make, the more beads I seem to have in my original box… I don’t know how they multiply like that, haha..

Items Used:

Multiple colored pens: https://tinyurl.com/ypj8c3wm

Rest of items used in video: https://share.temu.com/Kkeranom2SA NOTE: The only item that didn’t work with the pens because the holes were too small were 50pcs Zinc Alloy Flower Bead Caps, so don’t buy these for making beaded pens.

Strings to hold charms–said they had a lobster claw, but they don’t. https://tinyurl.com/45rjnu49

Star filled glass orbs used at end of video: https://tinyurl.com/tvy9uynw

Bulb pins I used to attach tassels to the pens: https://tinyurl.com/y9fm89uk

To add charms/tassels etc to the top of the pen using the right tools…use a tube bail bead and at least one O ring. Attach one tube bail bead to the pen with at least one O ring attached to the tube bail bead and then the bead or tassel attached to the o ring so it dangles.

Tube bail beads: I haven’t ordered these yet but I think the opening is large enough for pens. https://tinyurl.com/3x9ttxhe

O rings: 9 x 7 mm stainless steel: https://tinyurl.com/5e87vs2u

I used these beads I had in my stash on a couple of the pens normally used in Pandora bracelets: https://tinyurl.com/26k93y37