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This video will show a creative way I found to use leftover beads and make something brand new out of them. It is a step by step tutorial on how to make a one of a kind bead bowl! It truly fits in with my love of re-use, re-purpose and recycle! Everything needed to make this I had laying around the house and kitchen and I did not need to buy anything! I have done this project with my kids and they LOVE it! They make great gifts too!

I've been getting into raising air plants and succulents and I wanted to make it more fun by creating these simple perler bead geometric planters! To make this planter, it took roughly 2 hours for placing beads, ironing and gluing. :) If you don't have the hexagon pegboard, unfortunately it's not possible to make an equilateral triangle using a square pegboard. This is because the only positions you can make a line of beads on a square pegboard is 90 and 45 degrees, while you need a 60 degree angle to make the equilateral triangles.

PS The projects that I designed are not for commercial use and please don't redistribute my templates.

Make a bangle from melty-beads by fusing them as a band, and then wrapping the still-warm-and-flexible band around a glass and fusing it into a cylinder. One needs to find a glass of a suitable diameter, of course. One could probably make this easier by using the masking-tape technique and fusing around the glass to start with, without an intermediate step.

Designs for snap-together 3D cubes made from melty-beads. This is useful because it gives multiple sizes from 3x3 up to 7x7, with some hints about how to make even larger ones. It is also useful because, not being a video tutorial, one doesn't have to pause the video in order to copy down the pattern.

Form HAMA beads into a circle, fuse them, and then use that as a basis for that spirograph-like string art. Cool idea! It works because the fused HAMA beads still have holes through which one can thread things. (This is not in English, but the pictures are self-explanatory) While this uses them for Christmas decorations, the same method could be used to make pendants or earrings.

Perler beads (aka HAMA beads) are those plastic beads one puts on a peg-board and then melts together (with an iron and paper) So this is a design for a TARDIS!

A box made with six sides that snap together. While the sound on this is too soft, the instructions are at least clear and succinct.

First of a four-part tutorial on fusing larger perler-bead creations. The idea here is to put masking tape over the whole piece, so that one can lift it off the peg-board and have more control over the fusing process, which is especially important with large pieces because the fusing takes longer. This is a good and helpful tutorial.