Kids Eco-Jewellery Making Kit - Stars
Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery
Kids Eco-Jewellery Making Kit - Stars
A unique beading kit consisting of a mix of acai and tagua seeds in different colours, just let the child add their own imagination!
Each and every kit is unique as they are made from natural seeds from acai and tagua, which is handpick. No two kits are the same - the pictures are to give you a good idea of what the seeds look like.
This necklace and bracelet kit comes with two sweet little stars (carved from the tagua fruit) to make them extra special, it comes in a tin, perfect for storing trinkets or jewellery once the kits are complete. Each kit contains the materials to make 1 bracelets and 1 necklace with seeds to spare.
The Eco-Jewellery Making Kit includes:
-Elastic Cord
-50 grams of assorted acai and tagua seeds
-2x tagua carved stars
Made in United Kingdom
Vegetable Ivory or Tagua
The colourful and unique designs of Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery come from a material that is neither a vegetable nor ivory, but you wouldn't know it by its name. Vegetable Ivory, or Tagua, is the dried seed from a large, fruited palm tree that is native to Brazil and the tropical rainforests of South America.
It can take forty years for these trees to produce their fruit, making the seeds inside them all the more precious. Each fruit contains between four and nine seeds ranging from the size of an olive to an avocado. The seed's cavity contains a refreshing liquid that, if harvested within six months, turns to a sweet, edible liquid. If left, however, this jelly turns into a hard, white substance similar to that of elephant tusks or animal teeth.
Precious as these seeds are, at Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery, our ecosystem comes first. That's why the first crop of fruit is left for the "curicas", the birds of the Amazon rainforest. Only after two years is the fruit collected by hand from the forest floor.
Once collected, the seeds are removed from their husks and left to dry in the sun for about three months. Only then is Vegetable Ivory hard enough to be carved, sliced and drilled - much like real ivory - and capable of holding the colourful dyes that make our jewellery so unique. Unlike real ivory, however, Vegetable Ivory is a renewable resource that does not harm our animals or our planet when harvested.