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Make Your Own Amazing Perler Bead Bowl

Make Your Own Amazing Perler Bead Bowl These bright and cheerful melted Perler bead bowls are so easy a three-year-old can make them! Actually, our three-year-old DID make these. Tomorrow our six and eight-year-olds want to make some too because they felt like they missed out on ALL the View Post

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How to Use Perler Beads and Get Creative

Fuse beads, Perler beads, fun-beads-to-stick-in-your-nose: Regardless of what you call these beads, I am THRILLED to have bought BUCKET LOADS of the little plastic cylinder-shaped beads. I spent countless hours in the 80s making coasters for my parents, grandparents and other unsuspecting View Post

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Easter bunny perler bead pattern. Free perler bead template to make a cute bunny. Fuse bead bunny template. Fuse bead Easter templates. #Perlerbeads #Perlerbeadpattern #perlerbeadtemplate #fusebeads #meltybeads #mamainthenow #EasterCrafts

How to Make the Cutest Perler Bead Bunny – FREE Printable Template

The cutest perler bead bunny:  OK, can we all agree that this winter was unusually long, cold and did I mention long? We live in the Pacific North West and within the past few days, the cherry blossoms are finally in bloom. The beauty of the pink flowers are giving me hope that spring IS View Post

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The best Perler bead ideas for creative kids. Great craft for fine motor skills. Perler bead craft ideas. Hama bead craft ideas. Melting bead ideas. Crafts for kids. Fun crafts for tweens. Crafts for teens. Perler bead patterns for kids. #MamaintheNow

The Best 17 Perler Bead Ideas for Creative Kids

17 Clever Perler Bead Crafts for Kids Oh, where to begin?  At first glance you wouldn’t think that a bag of plastic beads could be used to produce such a variety of items.  From favorite characters, to keychains, to décor items to toys, you can make them all with Perler beads, also known as Hama View Post

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Perler bead ornaments make great gifts. Easy ornaments to make with toddlers and preschoolers. These Perler beads, fuse beads, HAMA beads are great for fine motor skills. The ornaments make great homemade gifts for grandparents. Fun, quick and easy craft for toddlers and preschoolers. Christmas ornaments for toddlers and preschoolers to make.

Easy Toddler-Approved Perler Bead Ornaments

There are days we need to keep our little ones busy and happy for a few minutes. These easy toddler-approved Perler bead ornaments are perfect for that! The big kids are busy with their homework. Common core math has forced a silence over the house. The little kids are enjoying their simple life, View Post

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Pokemon crafts and activities for kids of all ages. Have Pokemon fun with the whole family. DIY Pokemon gifts, Pokemon snacks, Pokemon paper crafts, Pokemon LEGO ideas and Pokemon learning activities.

Pokemon Crafts and Activities For The Whole Family

We may not understand their Pokemon obession, but we can still score major cool-mom-points with Pokemon crafts and activites. I often find myself staring at my kids with a strange look, thinking “who are these creatures and why do they keep referring to me as “mom” because clearly we cannot be View Post

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Over 500 fun Pokemon templates and patterns for pixel art. Perfect for LEGO building inspiration for tweens and teens.

Over 500 of the Best Ideas For Pokemon LEGO Pixel Art

The summer is coming to an end, rather quickly. We checked most of the things off our summer bucket list, and we had a blast doing so. The kids are slowly, ever so slowly starting to climb the walls. Now even the toddler has learned to say: “what are we going to do today? I am bored!” I smile and View Post

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DIY an indoor spring tree with beautiful family pictures from PhotoLove and melting Perler beads. This statement piece is a great way to display family pictures.

DIY Indoor Spring Tree

I have to take four of my little-girl footsteps to one of his grandpa steps. Keeping up with him can be really hard, even though he is 71 and I just turned 7 a few short months ago. But I don’t want to miss out on his stories about nature, as we walk along the tree-lined path in the forest. The View Post

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Pokemon Inspiration for Perler Beads

Over 500 Pokemon and Minecraft Perler Patterns

Your kids have exceeded their screen time, but the Minecraft and Pokemon obsessions are strong, show them these Pokemon and Minecraft perler bead patterns. I love my kids, I really do. But WOW, there are times that I feel less than connected to them. Their obsession with Minecraft and Pokemon is View Post

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