Plastic bead pictures
Jan 4, 2013 5:52:09 GMT
Post by ragdall on Jan 4, 2013 5:52:09 GMT
I first saw this craft when I spent a day as the teacher in a Montessori classroom. They looked like such fun that I bought a large jar of them and several packages of templates for assembling them, "for the grandchildren". 
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After the picture is completed on a pegboard, it's covered with a non-stick paper and heated with an iron until the plastic melts and the beads fuse together. When it's cool, it's removed from the pegboard, flipped over, covered with the non-stick paper and heated briefly to fuse the beads together on that side too, otherwise the piece will bend .
This is my creation:
My nine year old granddaughter has more imagination than I do. She can think outside the box. This is her two step piece:
Bead art by diffuse, on Flickr
We had a lot of fun making them.
rags
(Click on images to enlarge them)
After the picture is completed on a pegboard, it's covered with a non-stick paper and heated with an iron until the plastic melts and the beads fuse together. When it's cool, it's removed from the pegboard, flipped over, covered with the non-stick paper and heated briefly to fuse the beads together on that side too, otherwise the piece will bend .
This is my creation:
My nine year old granddaughter has more imagination than I do. She can think outside the box. This is her two step piece:
Bead art by diffuse, on Flickr
We had a lot of fun making them.
rags
