After these pony beads had spent days covering the dining room floor, it was about time we did some creating with them.
Little Missy is really loving threading at the moment, which is what first inspired me to buy these pony beads and pipe cleaners.
Combined with Penguin’s desire to learn about snakes I thought I would devise a craft to suit them both. Usually we do crafty stuff at home, but with everything at their disposal they often ask for different things which often results in a dis-organised mess.
This time it would be different. We took a trip to the extremely immaculate house of Granny and Gramps and got crafting. This activity was ideal, it didn’t involve any paint or uncontrollable gluing! So no grumpy grandparents!
We threaded the beads onto pipe cleaners…
There’s this really simple way of making cute little pom poms using a fork. Even the little munchkins were able to get involved. You wrap wool around a fork. Thread some wool through the middle and tie really tight. Cut the wool down each side of the fork and that’s it.
POM POMS
I used a glue gun to attach the googly eyes and felt tongue to the pom poms. I attached the pom pom to the threaded pipe cleaner using the long bit of wool.
I’m not sure how much like a snake they look but hey it kept the little munchkins focused for half an hour! and some snakey fun afterwards!
Lovely picture
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These are sweet, nice craft idea #FabFridayPost
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Beads are the bane of my life – I hate them! But these look great! #howtosunday
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What a lovely idea! probably a bit advanced for mine (and my glue gun skills are terrible! :p) but the pompoms are fab! I didnt realise they were that simple to make!! #howtosunday
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awww these are cute! Can’t wait til M and F are big enough to do this #howtosunday
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That looks really fun. Saving that as we’re always looking for crafts to do with the younger ones at church / toddlers. Thank you
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Aww, I love these! They are very cute and a great craft for fine motor skill practice. I really need to try the fork pom poms, they look super easy and I need to try it! Thanks so much for linking up to #HowtoSunday 🙂 x
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Aww… That’s so cute! He looks he is enjoying himself making them. Coincidentally, Ethan also came back with some beads in the pipeline from school yesterday. I think it is time for making pompom know so we can have a snake like yours! Great dexterity work. Thank you for sharing. X #FabFridayPost
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