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Decorated Perler Bead Binders

Materials:
bulletPerler Beads with CIRCLE base:  
bulletvery inexpensive, but really neat beads you can pick up a lot of places (we got ours at Wallmart).  
bulletIf you already have the square base and don't want to buy another, you can create different characters to put on your binder.  


  
bulletIron (may require adult assistance)
  
bulletPlain binder in your preferred color
  
bulletHot glue gun (adult assistance) or strong white glue (kids)

Instructions:

bulletHave the children carefully arrange the perler beads in their preferred shape -- we made small and large flowers for our binder
  
bulletFollow the directions on the perler beads (basically, you arrange the beads on the form, cover with a waxy paper that comes with the beads and iron for a couple of seconds.)
  
bulletHot glue (adults) or white glue (kids) the decorations to the front of the binder.

Perler Bead Ideas for a Circle Base:

Flower (Large) 
(we used these on our binders and on our bulletin board but you can also use them as necklaces):  

You could also do this with white beads and call it a snowflake

     

 

Flower (Small) 
(we used these on our binders and on our bulletin board but you can also use them as necklaces):  

Pokeball: 
(we used these for our Perler Keyrings)  

 perler bead pokeball center "small flower" of white

surround with one row of black

split whole thing with black

fill one half with red and the other with white

Pot of Gold: 

Make a circle with black beads (ours was the center with three more layers).

Take a few of the beads off the top of the circle and replace them with yellow ("gold")

Add a black bead on each side of the gold to make the edges of the pot.

Add five rows of rainbow colors to the top to complete.

Rainbow: 
(we used these for our Perler Keyrings)  

 perler bead rainbow leave center "small flower" + one more round blank

one row each of 
5 or 6 rainbow colors

Smiley Face 
(pictured on Kaitlyn's Perler Necklace):  

 perler bead smiley face center "small flower" of yellow

put black eyes and smile under and over center

fill in with yellow

Watermelon Piece 
(pictured on Tasha's Perler Necklace):        

 perler bead watermelon slice two rows green, 
black scattered around, 
fill in with red

Watermelon Slice: 
(thanks to Cathy for this one!)