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this first holiday craft was super duper easy but looks really cool.
we made 3D snowflakes!
you will need only pipe cleaners and beads.
we choose silver pipe cleaners and clear beads.
(but you could do white pipe cleaners with rainbow colored beads and it would be adorable!)
clear beads from the plastic crafty bead section at the craft store.
they are like $1.99 a bag or so.
take 10 pipe cleaners and lay one the opposite direction of the other 9.
wrap the 9 together tightly a few times with the one pipe cleaner...twisting to make it stay.
then fan out the pipe cleaners as evenly as you can in all directions.
then we snipped off a few inches from all the sides EXCEPT ONE.
on the ONE tall pipe cleaner...place one bead and the wrap the end into a loop.
next place one bead or more on every pipe cleaner.
they stay on whereever you place them...they don't slide around.
i like that.
we took some of the small pieces that we snipped off and wrapped them
around the ends of a few of the points...to give it that "snowflake" look.
and that's it!
my kids each made several.
and argued over whose was the best.
of course.
happy crafting!
(idea for this craft was found here)
