Melted bead ornaments

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!

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

ornaments made by melting beads in cookie cutter

homemade ornaments for your tree that kids can help make

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

These melted bead ornaments are SO BEAUTIFUL and they're so simple! You can hang them on the Christmas tree, or turn them into sun catchers for the window.

Christmas melted bead ornaments, Christmas craft for kids

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!

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 …