Bead melting crafts

These melted bead suncatchers are SO PRETTY and easy to make! Melt beads in the toaster oven to create a bright and cheerful decoration to hang in your window. These DIY suncatchers have a beautiful stained glass look that reflects all kinds of colours in the sunlight. Make a bead suncatcher for yourself, or to give as a homemade gift for Mother's Day, birthdays, or any time! This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a small commission which…

How to make a colorful melted bead suncatcher mobile. Fun and easy to do with kids and makes a lovely gift!

When enough heat is added to a solid, it can melt into a liquid! Plastic beads at room temperature are round, with a hole in the middle, but if we put them into an oven - where the temperature is much higher - they melt into a liquid plastic. Liquids take the shape of their container so your heated round beads can now be formed into a new shape!

A fun Christmas craft that the kids will love. Let the kids make these easy Melted Pony Bead Ornaments decorate your tree this year!

How to Make a Melted Beads Suncatchers Using Plastic beads, Follow easy steps for DIY Handmade Melted Beads Suncatchers, DIY Pony Beads Rainbow Suncatchers

These melted bead ornaments are SO MUCH FUN. I could get addicted to making these! Using simple pony beads, you can make cookie cutter shapes, beautiful free handed patterns, sun catchers, or anything you like! They almost look like little stained glass works of art. Simply beautiful! It was also one of those crafts where I got to feel a little like a crazy person. Melting plastic is kind of smelly. And I'm not an expert, but I think those plastic gases that come out when the beads melt are…

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...

Super easy tutorial for making Melted Bead Ornaments - all you need is pony beads, an oven, a secret tool you may already have and you're on your way!

Make your own snowflake ornaments with melted pony beads. Our melted bead ornaments are easy to set up and provide tonnes of Christmas fun!

I recently wrote about creating Christmas tree decorations from melted crayons to give as teacher gifts. Another teacher gift we’ve done are melted bead Christmas ornaments. While the process to make these if fairly similar the results look totally different. This post contains affiliate links (identified with a *) I earn a commisson from qualifying