Make Your Own Leather Earrings

Let’s make some tiny leather earrings — for ourselves, or as a gift. The natural texture of the leather and the soft pop of color is perfect for fall and winter.

Leather is an easy material to work with. It’s soft, but keeps its shape. It doesn’t fray or wrinkle (unless you really, really want it to) and the texture and color options are endless. With a few bucks and very little time, you can make yourself a whole new batch of accessories. They’re so simple and easy to make it’s barely a tutorial — come and check out this easy, satisfying project!

DIY Leather Earrings Supplies

– leather*
– earring posts
– strong adhesive or hot glue
– scissors

The leather for this project can be found at fabric stores. However, because the amount needed is so little, you can find what you need at thrift stores (purses, bags, belts) or garage sales — you could even pick up old leather purses at Goodwill and cut up the leather for craft projects like this.

Cut your desired shape. Sharp, geometric shapes are much easier to trim out. Smaller shapes seem to work best — half an inch or smaller — basically, just enough leather to cover the earring post.

To finish up, use glue to attach the leather to earring post.

Allow to dry completely and then wear! Simple as can be. Making earrings would be a fun boredom fighter for your tweens or teens — you could host a jewelry making party!

P.S. — Like to make things? Here are a whole bunch of awesome projects.