Making homemade beads is one of my favorite things to do. It’s so relaxing! Sometimes I make mine out of paper, but often I’ll mix up a batch of dough and make them out of that. Here’s how to make your own beads!
What you need:
1 cup of flour, 2 tbsp cream of tartar, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, ½ cup salt, 1 cup boiling water (have a grown up help with this), bowl, wooden spoon, grown up assistant, oven, cookie sheet, small straw
What you do:
- With your grown up’s help, put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and start mixing them up.
- When you’ve got the dough mixed up, take it out of the bowl and squash it around with your fingers to make sure it’s really well combined.
- Roll little balls to make beads. Poke a small straw through your beads to make holes (don’t leave the straw in the bead).
- When you’ve made your beads, pop them onto a cookie sheet and have your grown up put them in the oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30 minutes (until they’re dried out).
- Let your beads cool off.
- When the beads are cool, get some acrylic paint and paint them in interesting designs!
- When your paint is dry, string your beads on a string to make a bracelet or necklace!
U made a lot of excellent stuff with your blog, “Roberta
i think this a great for when its raining outside so ill save it when it does rain~doglover
I think this is a great project for a rainy day. I’m gonna give it a shot on the next day that the weather keeps me inside. I agree with Dreamsicle that this would make a great gift for grandma or any other female relative. Thanks again, Roberta.
I like to make things out of clay too! Beads would be fun to make. I might try this today! >>cathouse2
I am gonna ask my Mom to help me make a heart on a ribbon. (it is my grandma’s birthday next week) :) Cool idea Roberta, I hope we see lots more!
the beads looks like rocks
Thats awesome Strawberry Starburst.Cause I`m writing a story too!!! I started at the end of June.
Sure KK. I do art 6 days a week. My mom keeps on signing me up 4 art classes since I’m going in 2 a special art school next year 4 middle school(I got in along w/ 50 other kids. 600 people tried out) That’s cool lovepuppygirl, lightpapa, & KK! I started in October & I’m almost done w/ the book. BTW, did u start on June 30 lovepuppygirl? Because that’s my B-Day! $Strawberry out$
Thats really cool, congrats! ~KK♥
Thanks KK! BTW, feel free 2 call me SS if u think my comment name is 2 long. :D -SS-
Sculpey works as well.
I use Sculpey more often then the regular clay 4 some reason. When I make about 10-20 sculptures I always set up a garage sale in my garage 2 sell them. People always commented about how I should sell my sculptures since their so good so that’s how it started. I’ve been doing it since 6 months ago. I have 2 put half of the money I earn in 2 my college savings but I get 2 keep the rest 2 buy stuff like Webkinz since my parents make me pay 4 them w/ my own money. Maybe I could try this sometime & add these 2 my garage sales. $Strawberry out$
wow thats so kool strawberry starburst i make ALL kinds of things with my clay id do that 2 but we’ve never had a yard sale lol!#$0|0<up# ;-) :-) :lol:
Thanks #Solo Cup#. I make animals since I love them. So far, I’ve had 6 garage sales. I like writing 2 so maybe when I finish the book I’m writing, I could make a bunch of copies of it & sell it in my garage sales 2. People r getting kinda bored of sculptures so I’m thinking of selling paintings & drawings I make. A lot of people r a big fan of my artwork even though I’m only 10. $Strawberry out$
You’re writing a book, Strawberry Starburst? That’s awesome! I like writing too.
Thats cool Starburst! Can I call you that? Since you keep changing flavors of starburst, lol! I dont do garage sales, I cant give anything away! Memories! I do art too! I have painting (acrylic) lessons once a week! But I do art at home. My first ever sculpture was a mermaid! I got into making sculptures when my friend brought home a sculpture she made of a ladybug on a lillypad with a waterlilly. I also write books! ~KK♥
Awesome! But I’m not entirely sure if those are something I would actually wear… I would want to find like super miniature cookie cutters and then gloss the beeds up. Then I’d think about it. Lolz
Great idea with the cookie cutters! Instead of beads u can make ornaments and give them as gifts at Christmas. ~DP
Roberta that you so much for the recipe. I’m going to try make this next time it’s raining outside and I can’t go out.
My cousins can’t do anything with flour unless teir parents are home because one time Styx fan and his friend had a flour fight and threw it all over the kitchen
Awesome Roberta! I am going to make this right now! And LOL @Northwestern! My friends and I once had a competition, to see how can make the best brownies from scratch, (the judges were actually all our mom’s) turns out the winner was M-E, ME! I was so happy! So after that, my friends hide behind me when I was not looking, and poured flour all over my head! It was so funny, then I started throwing flour at them! We were a mess, but it was lots and lots of fun! (it took me forever to get all that flour out of my hair, but no biggie!) Your Friend nihao9! :D
:mrgreen: :cool: I’ve had good memories with flour, usually. But once my Mom was pouring the flour out of the bag to make home made pancakes (for a bunch of our friends) and all the flour came out at {close to} the same time and exploded into a dust cloud that was in the kitchen for a while. But it was a lot of fun. :) -Moonstar◙◙◙