Melted bead ornaments in oven

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

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!

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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!

Have you started listening to Christmas music yet?? I loooooove Christmas music. As soon as it starts to get cold outside I pop my favourite mixed Christmas CD into the car stereo and play it non-stop until New Years. Even if it starts to snow in October, I'm excited for the excuse to play my favourite Christmas songs!! Picture the tiniest flurry and my husband saying, 'Debbie, it's way too early for Christmas music!' and me replying, 'What are you talking about!? It's snowing!!!!!!'…

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Every year, for better or worse, my friend Amy and I make some sort of holiday tree ornament en masse with the kiddies. We try to pick something easy and cute, something that we can gift to the gra…