DIY Melted Beads Crafts and Accessories are so much fun to make! My girls love making hair accessories and handmade jewelry with them and also they make the cutest party favors and handmade gifts… Take a look!
Have you ever made accessories with melted beads? They are so fun and easy to do!
During the weekend we made some melted bead jewelry and a few bookmarks.
My girls could not stop making their own earrings and seriously this is so affordable that
you don’t feel bad when they lose them.
Look how cute they look… So fun!
If you have never melted beads before let me tell you, this is a 15 minute project.
You can make a ton of jewelry, bookmarks, hair clips, and even magnets for under $5.
MATERIALS
Color Pony Beads – Find them HERE
Parchment Paper – Find It HERE
Optional: Toaster Oven – Find It HERE
TUTORIAL
The first thing you want to do is preheat your toaster oven at 425 degrees F.
While the toaster oven heats up place a baking parchment paper on top of a cookie sheet.
Make the shapes placing your beads to your like.
Have fun mixing colors and playing with different combinations.
You can see below what the beads look like before and after melting.
The flowers will take 10 minutes to melt. The earrings will take between 8 to 10 minutes.
Important: This is an OUTSIDE project.
Plug you toaster oven outside and play in your backyard!
Update: Some of my readers have shared that they have melted the beads in a gas grill outside and it worked. So there you have two clever options to melt the beads out of the kitchen.
Brilliant idea!
Here is how the single beads look after melting.
After the melted beads have cooled down pull them out.
You can create a bunch of things with them.
We made hair clips…
…bookmarks
…and my favorite, the earrings and rings.
Simply glue the backs to the melted beads.
UPDATE: I have a reader that suggested to use E3000
or a similar epoxy glue for a stronger bond,
that way they won’t fall apart.
Do the same to make the ring…
These accessories make the cutest party favors and gifts.
Assemble them in a small tag and give them for birthday and Christ.mas presents
You even have time to make them for Easter Baskets.
My girls and their friends love them!
And I love them too…
Thank you for the visit my friends… Have a colorful day!
Besos
Desiree
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Is the reason you recommend doing it outside because it creates a strong smell?
Yes. You can do it in your oven but the smell is really bad and I don’t believe that’s healthy.
Super cute, but yea, I would have a designated oven to do this in. Not something that should be done in an oven where food will be cooked. Thanks for sharing.
Neat idea. I’ll have to wait until I can try the toaster oven outside, or the grill, cause if the smell is that bad, cannot be good for my bird:(
You can drill small holes in them and add jump rings to string them for necklaces.
Oh, and for perfectly round, use a mini muffin pan.
Great idea!
Are these just regular pony beads or are they special beads for melting?
Regular pony beads. You can find them at WalMart
Uhh… You didn’t say how hot the ovens supposed to be? Cool idea though.
Natali the temperature is under the Tutorial Instructions 🙂 You need to bake them at 425F
What temperature do you put the oven on
Pammy, the temperature is under the Tutorial Instructions 🙂 You need to bake them at 425F
What do you set the oven temp on to melt the beads. Sorry if it is in the instructions somewhere and I missed it. Thanks for the idea with 2 girls and little money this is a wonderful idea and will be tons of fun to have them help when making the jewelry plus we may be able to find a way to make necklaces to match the earrings and rings. Thank you for sharing this wonderful and fun idea.
Jamie, the temperature is under the Tutorial Instructions 🙂 You need to bake them at 425F
I’m so happy to find this!!!! I am going to have to play with these for sure. Outside sounds good too!
This is an absolutely brilliant idea. Now I know what I can with all those beads I have laying about. I tried it and i love the results, and I have much more ideas to try using this method, thanks so much.