Plastic Bead Sun Catchers

Over the past few years my daughter has received quite a few bracelet beading kits as gifts from family and friends. She has used up the materials with in those kits that she desired and was left with all of these small plastic translucent colored beads. As I was on Pintrest..as I always am..I stumbled upon a pin showing show to make sun catchers out of these exact beads that she has laying around her room! No more stepping on them or listening to the cat at 3am playing with a stray bead that I missed when I was cleaning..we were using them up today!!
The project seemed simple and came out quite beautiful. We had enough beads to make 3 of these in all (I told you she accumulated a lot of them!!). They are rather thin when they do "pop" out so you must be careful not to crack them.

Materials:

• Translucent plastic beads (do not use glass or seed beads they will not melt)
• 8" Round Cake Pan
• Fishing Line, Twine, Ribbon or other string to hang it with
• Bamboo Skewer

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Spread plastic beads into the cake pan.
3. Place into oven for 20 minutes.
4. This will smell like melting plastic so make sure your oven fan is on or a nearby window is open for ventilation.
5. Remove from oven. Immediately make a hole in the sun catcher while its hot and the plastic is pliable with the bamboo skewer so that you can later thread through your string.
6. Allow to cool in the pan for approximately 15 minutes and your sun catcher will pop right out of the pan if you flip it over.
7. Thread string, twine, ribbon or fishing line through and hang.