Are you looking for a fun kids craft with melty beads? These melted beads bowl is all kinds of fun for the kids to make their own melty bead pattern.
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Today I'm sharing a super fun melty beads bowl craft that you can do with your kids that cost a great price... less than $2. How fun is this bowl made out of Perler Beads (melty beads)?
We highlighted this Perler Craft along with some other fun kids craft in our September Crafts for Kids along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.
Do not miss our 15+ CRAFTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR BORED KIDS for other fun crafts like this one!
What are Melty Beads
Melty beads are also known as Perler beads. They are made of plastic and are fusible beads. They come in tons of different colors and can be made into all kinds of shapes.
The fused beads can be melted together using a heat source like and iron.
These colorful beads can be made into thousands of different shapes both flat and 3D.
Supplies Used to Make these Melty Bead Bowl
How to make this beauty is pretty simple and only takes a few supplies.
- One 1000 package of melting beads. - I found these rad neon colors that glow in the dark at Walmart for $1.50 and their colors include yellow, orange, pink, purple and blue.
- Some cooking oil. I used vegetable oil
- Oven safe bowl. I did some research on putting microwave safe glass (Pyrex) bowl in the oven, and all the literature I read said that they should not go over 450 degrees. PLEASE make sure the bowl is oven safe, I would hate for something to happen.
Why we love crafting with Melty beads
Why we love crafting with Melty beadsMelty bead ideas are great for kids of all ages, but young children's development in particular. They are great for developing fine motor skills making their own melty bead design.
There is a variety of colors and size beads typically. The biggie beads are fun adding to the mix for kids in different projects too.
Making the Perler Bead Bowl
As with any great craft, there is a learning curve. When starting this project, I had every intention of placing the beads along the outside of the bowl covered in oil to hold beads in place and using ironing paper.
MWH Girl was excited to start this project by placing the beads by color into a fun flower-like shape.
Once we got to the rounded edge portion of the bowl, the beads were having a hard time keeping the beads staying in place along the sides. That's when we took a different approach to this project. We did use the iron to slightly melt the hexagon shape we had created into place.
We moved the project to the inside of the bowl.
Cover the inside of the bowl with a few teaspoons of oil and place that bowl into a sheet pan to collect any random beads.
Once we had the hexagon at the bottom, then started to pour the beads into the bowl.
Massage the beads up the sides of the bowl to create a single layer.
Melty Beads Into Oven
Pre-Heat the oven to 450 degrees. -
Once you have the beads in place, into the oven for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, pull it out and let it cool.
After the glass has begun to cool and you are able to handle the glass bowl (it's hot, don't hurt yourself... and just a reminder if you're doing this craft with little ones, this is the part you should take care of) using a butter knife, you can run it along the outside of the bowl and the melted beads will pull ways from the bowl.
Let cool for an hour or so and voila, you have yourself a beautiful bowl full of color and character.
Great for holding household items or just by itself making for a great conversation piece. MWH Girl already has it in her room with all kinds of 5-year-old trinkets.
How many of you have these beads already at home for craft time and are going to make your own bowl?
Happy Crafting!
Other Crafts for Bored Kids
- We have 101+ Free Printables for Kids - We have printables for all the different seasons and fun word searches and puzzles too.
- These Leaf Bowls are of course fun during the Fall months, but also fun throughout the year. The leaves can be any color to make these fun leaf bowls.
- Our kids favorite is our Rainbow Popcorn.
- Another favorite of our kids is our DIY TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE NUNCHUCKS. If you have a pool noodle, then this is sure to be your kids favorite too.
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