Beaded Flower Craft

This Beaded Flower Craft is a lovely project for kids who enjoy making gifts by hand. With colorful pony beads and pipe cleaners, children can create a flower that stays bright and cheerful long after real flowers fade. It is a fun choice for spring, Mother’s Day, teacher gifts, or classroom activities.

Fun Facts

Beads have been used for thousands of years. Archaeologists discovered ancient beads made from ostrich eggshell in Tanzania that are believed to be about 70,000 years old. That makes beads one of the oldest decorative art materials ever used.

Supplies

• 40 purple pony beads
• 3 black pony beads
• 24 green pony beads
• 2 purple pipe cleaners
• 1 green pipe cleaner

Instructions

1. Take one purple pipe cleaner and string 8 purple pony beads onto it.
2. Shape the beads into a petal loop and thread the pipe cleaner back through the first bead of that loop to hold it in place.
3. Add 8 more purple beads and make a second petal the same way.
4. Repeat once more on the same pipe cleaner so you have 3 petals.
5. Use the second purple pipe cleaner to make 2 more petals with 8 purple beads per petal.
6. String 3 black pony beads onto one of the purple pipe cleaner ends to create the flower center.
7. Bring the petal sections together and loop the ends of both purple pipe cleaners around so the petals form a full flower.
8. Thread the ends through the black beads to secure the flower shape.
9. Take the green pipe cleaner and string 13 green pony beads onto it, leaving about 1 inch free at one end.
10. Bend the beaded section into a leaf shape, then thread the pipe cleaner back through beads 5 and 6 to hold the leaf in place.
11. Add 9 more green beads and form a second leaf. Thread the pipe cleaner back through the first 2 beads of that section.
12. String 3 more green beads onto the end for the top of the stem section.
13. Bend and shape the stem as needed. Trim any extra pipe cleaner if necessary.
14. Push the remaining end of the green pipe cleaner through a few center beads to secure the stem to the flower.

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Contributor

The FreeKidsCrafts Team

These projects are created by Terri, Betty, Jamie or one of the talented staff members at MakingFriends.com. They have been created exclusively for publication on FreeKidsCrafts.com with supplies you'll be able to find around your house.