How to make paper beads

You can make beads from a variety of waste paper/recycling paper and string them together to make necklaces or bracelets:

What you'll need are:
scraps of wallpaper, magazine pictures, used wrapping paper, colored paper, etc.
pencil, ruler, and scissors, glue and drinking straws, thread or yarn.

With your scissors, cut long triangles from your paper scraps that are about 1/2-inch wide and 2 1/2-inches long - best: make a cardboard template for triangle! Cover one side of a triangle with glue paste.
Put the glue paste on the inside of the paper so that the colourful pattern is on the outside of your bead.
Place the triangle's glued short side on a drinking straw. Hold on tight.
Twist and wrap the paper completely around itself on the straw.
Cut away the straw at both ends of the rolled paper.

To make beads with different shapes, vary the size and shape of the paper triangles that you cut.
Let your beads dry, and then string them together on your thread or yarn.
Knot the ends of the thread together.