Plastic beads melted

I came across this really interesting sun-catcher on . I love this site! I love sharing on it and I love to find nifty little creations that I can do at home myself. As you all I know I love to cra…

I love projects as it is abundantly obvious now. This is an easy one; put beads in pan and melt. Send kids outside so I don’t zap their brain cells. String with wire and be dazzled… …

Easy DIY heart shaped Valentine's Day Magnets made using melted pony beads. They are the perfect gift for anyone on your list.

Okay, I admit - I'm one of those crafters who snickers as I walk by the pony bead aisle at Hobby Lobby. Does that make me a craft snob? I ho...

This project was inspired by another bloggers post, which I can’t find again on Pinterest, so will have to edit it back in later when I can find it. Anyway, I ended up doing something comple…

Melted Bead Sun Catcher: These are so pretty and ridiculously easy and inexpensive! It's a fun activity for kids, too, if you let them design the colors and patterns of the beads. Just make sure a grown up does the baking because the plastic gets HOT! Please take a moment …

Ever since we experimented with melted bead coasters I've been wanting to 'go big' and try melted bead bowls. The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you! The fabulous people at craftprojectideas.com kindly sent me a whole range of pony beads, which really inspired me to do this project. Before sharing this activity with children, I did a little test run. I found two oven-proof…

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Holed plastic cylinder beads are the best type of beads to use when making bowls. Plastic cylinder beads melt when heat is applied and are a uniform size, so they will melt at the same time. The more beads you use, the larger your bowl will be.

Make easy and beautiful melted bead art and free-form suncatchers and mobiles using translucent pony beads, thread or wire, a metal pan, and a grill. We've been in the midst of a whole round of melted pony bead suncatcher experimentation! We first started with using round cake pans and muffin tins to make basic melted bead suncatchers, but now we're into more freeform melted bead art and experiments. We're absolutely loving the freedom of form that string and wire are allowing. And we've…