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You’ll have to really push it out as the plastic sticks to the cookie cutter, but it will come out. Pop your melted pony bead out of the cookie cutter.Let it cook a little longer if it isn’t flat, but I don’t like my beads cooking for long. If they look flat and melted (without bumps that still resemble beads), you can take your ornament out.

Melted for around 5-10 minutes and check on the beads.Put the cookie cutter and beads inside the oven.

Note: My daughter sorted our blues and clear for her snowflake colors before we started.

Place pony beads inside of the metal cookie cutter (DON’T use plastic cookie cutters).

Preheat your oven to 400 and line your baking sheet with aluminum foil <- you can do it without, but I like adding this step.

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How to Make a Melted Pony Bead Craft Ornament

Metal Cookie Cutter <- here’s what we have, but you can also melt these as circle ornaments in a muffin tin.

Clear Pony Beads <-affiliate link to a big bag 🙂.

Psst…These would make adorable gift tags too! What You Need for This Melted Pony Bead CraftĪmazon Affiliate links are in this post so that you can see what we’ve used ~ Disclosure policy here. If the kids are itching to make something for the holidays, you can make this ornament so easily and it’s something that they love to add to the tree! Once you have a few supplies, there’s little to no prep for this project. So, what’s my favorite part about this kid-made ornament? I’ll share a few tips that will *really* help you at the end of the post.īut first, here’s how you can make our melted pony bead ornament for kids!

Would the melted beads permanently adhere to my baking sheet?Īnd, I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to melt pony beads.

Would the beads actually melt and at what temperature?.

I’ll tell you how to avoid at the bottom of this post) Would melting pony beads smell bad? (it DOES by the way.After taking a plastics class in college (yes, this communication major passed the class -woot!), I was wondering: I was terrified to melt pony beads in the oven. I remember the first time that we tried making a melted pony bead ornament.