Perler Beads 

Remember the beads station at festivals or birthday parties when we were kids?

It took a great amount of attention to details and patience to create artwork with Perler beads…and more often than not, you lose all of your hard work from a slight movement of the table.

Well, hopefully, this process will be easier as adults.

Get the beads. If you feel like designing your own pattern is too ambitious, there are many packs with set designs you can find online. Check out this store.

Once you lay out the beads in the pattern and shape of your choice, put wax paper over it and iron.

You should be able to see the beads slightly melting underneath the wax paper and they will start to get mushy. That’s how you know if it’s working or not!

DO NOT SMASH by putting too much pressure on the iron.

The new artwork can be desk decorations or necklaces. I mean…beaded jewelry over a denim outfit? It doesn’t get more 90s than that.

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