Animal Jewelry Crafts on How to Make an Adorable Wire Wrapped Dragonfly

Once I saw this wire wrapped dragonfly on Pinterest. I can’t wait to make this simple but adorable wire wrapped dragonfly by myself. You just need to prepare some copper wires and a bigger hole size bead. Now, follow me to learn how to make a wire wrapped dragonfly!

Materials needed in wire wrapped dragonfly tutorial:

1MM Copper Wire
Wood Beads

Instructions for wire wrapped dragonfly tutorial:

Step 1: Make body for the wire wrapped dragonfly

1st, cut off about 50cm 1mm copper wire, bend it in half and pinch the bend with a flat nose plier;
2nd, wrap the bent wire to form the shape as picture shows, this is the body of the wire wrapped dragonfly.

Step 2: Make wings for the wire wrapped dragonfly

1st, bend the wire clockwise to form a loop as picture shows, and place the wire under the body wire;
2nd, bend the wire anticlockwise to form a loop as picture shows, and place the wire over the previous wires; now, you’ve got a pair of bottom wings;
3rd, continue to bend the wires to make the other pair of wings in the same method, notice that this pair of wings is bigger than the bottom one.

Step 3: Finish the wire wrapped dragonfly tutorial

1st, use the wire to coil the part where all wings join two times;
2nd, retain 3cm wires and cut off the extra wires, slide a wood bead onto both wires as its head, 3rd, coil several turns at ends of both wires, these are the antennas of the wire wrapped dragonfly.

This is the final look of the wire wrapped dragonfly:

Tada! This wire wrapped dragonfly tutorial is over! Do you learn how to make a wire wrapped dragonfly? It is so cute and easy, isn’t it? Well, just have a nice try!