Melted Bead Rainbow Magnet

Melted Bead Rainbow Magnet

 

Our church is in the process of adopting a new workshop-model curriculum for our Children’s Ministry. Several of us traveled to a training a few hours away on Saturday at the church who originally wrote the curriculum we will be adopting. While there, I stumbled upon an adorable rainbow craft (for the story of Noah) that was made by simply putting some beads in the oven. I knew I wanted to try it out when we got back home…and adding a little magnet tape on the back transformed it into a super-cute Melted Bead Rainbow Magnet!

A word of warning:  This activity is probably appropriate for school-aged children or maybe preschoolers with exceptional fine motor ability. Arranging the small beads without a guide was definitely challenging!

 

Here’s what you’ll need:  plastic beads, small aluminum pan, an oven, and magnet tape. We received the pony beads and magnet tape compliments of CraftProjectIdeas.com. We only had the solid pony beads, but I think it turns out even prettier if you use translucent beads.

 

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 1. Gather your materials.

 

 

 

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 2. Sort the beads according to color. Little Brother helped us out with this part. :)

 

 

 

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3. Begin arranging the beads in the aluminum tin.

 

 

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 Ready to go!

 

 

 

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 4. Put them in the oven. Make sure to keep a very close eye on them while they’re in there. I had to experiment a little bit with the temperature. I started with the oven at 350 degrees, but had to eventually turn it up to 400 degrees because we had to leave the house in a hurry. It might have taken 10 minutes at 400 degrees to melt the beads completely. Your kitchen will smell like lovely burnt plastic. :)

 

 

 

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 5. Let the rainbow cool completely.

 

 

 

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6. Pop it out of the aluminum tin (it should come out easily once it is fully-cooled) and stick a piece of magnet tape on the back!

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Rainbow Magnet made by putting plastic beads in the oven

 

 

Be sure to check out our other great rainbow activities.  

Rainbows for Little Hands

5 Comments

  1. be sure you ventilate the kitchen when you are melting those beads. breathing those fumes just cannot be good for ya.

  2. Looks great but I would be very concerned about the toxins released when the plastic melts — you don’t want to breathe that stuff in.

  3. I use an old toaster over ourside….in garage or back deck. I did it once in the house, and didn’t find
    the fumes to be that bad….but did open a window.

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