Christmas Craft – Bead and Pipe Cleaner Ornaments
The pipe cleaner works like a needle, making a needle unnecessary.
Christmas ornaments made from ordinary pipe cleaners and inexpensive acrylic beads are very pretty and easy to make.
Pipe cleaners can be found in silver and gold tinsel as well as chenille of all colors. These beads have six faceted paddles spaced equally around a center that contains the hole for stringing. Or alternate red and green beads and form a circle for a wreath. Bend up the end of the pipe cleaner so the beads don’t fall off. Older people will enjoy making this Christmas craft, too, which can be varied to make a number of different sparkling ornaments for your Christmas tree. When the beads are strung on the pipe cleaners, they can be bent into different Christmas shapes. For best results, show the children how to alternate colors when stringing, or start a pattern of three colors. They look quite impressive yet are easy enough for small children to make. One type is called sunburst beads, but are also known as paddlewheel beads, snowflake beads, or starburst beads. For the most sparkly and attractive Christmas ornaments, get tri beads and/or sunburst beads in translucent colors of red, green, and clear. Two types of beads are particularly effective when strung on pipe cleaners. Use red pipe cleaner to form a small bow to decorate the wreath.
If you experiment with clear beads and silver pipe cleaners, you can make some beautiful snowflake or star ornaments. The tri beads can also be found in metallic gold and silver which can be used in this Christmas craft as well. The beads cover the pipe cleaners, but the ends will need to be twisted together and made into hangers, so they show. This is one Christmas Special crafts idea to use again and again.
Anyone, even small children, can string these beads on pipe cleaners. Form a hanger for the Christmas Beautiful craft or simply slip the circle over a branch of the tree. It has three rounded bumps arranged around the stringing hole. For instance, string red and clear beads alternately, and then bend down one end of the pipe cleaner for a candy cane shape.
The other type of bead that is also effective for this Christmas Antique craft is called the tri bead or propeller bead.
To make the bead and pipe cleaner ornaments, you need common pipe cleaners in desired colors and acrylic beads. When several of these sunburst beads are strung consecutively, they fit against each other in an interlocking pattern. For the Christmas craft, the best colors to use are the metallic’s and Christmas colors.
Bead and pipe cleaner ornaments are a Christmas craft you will find yourself using every year.
Snowflake designs can be twisted of silver pipe cleaner only, without the beads for a simple but pretty decoration. Children and their parents will both appreciate this simple yet pretty Christmas Nice crafts. Like the sunburst beads, the tri beads interlock when strung consecutively.
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