Sea Glass Wind Chimes

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Sea Glass Wind Chimes - Sea Glass Craft Project #8

You can Use Your Beach Glass to Make

Sea Glass Wind Chimes

Step by Step Instructions to Making a...

...Pleasing and Eye Catching Wind Chime or Suncatcher.

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Many have found that the right combination of melodic sounds produced by a wind chime go well with many environments. Your sea glass as well as sea shells added to a wind chime makes it pleasing to the eyes as well as to the ears.

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The following instructions can be adapted to make your own sea glass mobile or sea glass suncatcher.

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Steps to making sea glass wind chimes:

1. Shop around for a wind chime that produces a sound you like.

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Since sea glass is solid, it will not by itself make a real wind "chime" sound.

2. Once you find a wind chime that you like, you can replace some of the strands with sea glass and sea shell strands.

You might want to leave several strands of the chimes themselves next to each other so that they do bump together to produce that pleasing music in a light breeze.

3. Many wind chimes have the chimes attached with drilled holes. To attach your sea glass, you could use one of these methods:

Drill the sea glass. Then attach your sea glass just as the original chime or decoration was attached.
Wrap your sea glass with wire, creating a loop at top and bottom.

Tie a bit of flat driftwood or sea shell to the strand and glue your sea glass to it.

Epoxy shoe glue, or carpenter's glue will work well. Be sure to let each piece dry thoroughly before working with it.

Click on this image to find out how to make very nice wind chimes using your sea glass or crafts glass.

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4. If you would rather start from scratch, look at a variety of wind chimes to get some ideas for your own sea glass wind chimes.

Ideally, you would use beach finds such as driftwood, sea shells, pebbles, et cetera, to create your sea or beach glass wind chimes.

Click on the image to see this beautiful mini sea glass wind chime submitted byKathy in Seattle

If it is not the sound or tone of tubular or other wind chimes that you are looking for, you may decide to make a sun catcher or mobile instead. Just adapt the above instructions for the sea glass wind chimes project to fit your sun catcher or sea glass mobile.

Would you like more sea glass crafts ideas? See this list:

Sea Glass Crafts Ideas:

Sea glass fountain.

Sea glass table lamp.

Sea glass candles, candle holders or votive holders.

Beach motif mirror or sea glass photo frame.

Colorful night lights and light switch plates.

Sea glass mosaics or a sea glass tile.

Sea glass, stained glass style.

Sea glass beads.