If you’ve got boxes of unused Perler beads lying around, you’ll love this cute Perler Bead Christmas Tree Decoration craft. It’s suitable for a range of ages and is pretty mess-free… if you ignore the Perler beads all over the floor!
If you like this , then you may love my Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree’s, Pipe cleaner reindeer and snowflake Christmas decoration.
Materials Needed To Make Perler Bead Christmas Tree Decoration
- 1x 15cm brown cotton pipe cleaner
- 2x 30cm green cotton pipe cleaner
- Perler Beads (Hama in the UK)
- Sequin stars
- Scissors
- Glue gun
- Green thread
- Ruler
Younger children will need monitoring as the perler beads could be a choking hazard and they will also need help measuring and cutting the pipe cleaners plus using the glue gun. You could pre-cut them before the craft.
How To Make A Perler Bead Christmas Tree Decoration
1. First, you need to cut your brown pipe cleaner into half and your green pipe cleaner into; 4cm, 5cm, 7cm and 8cm lengths.
2. Lay the green pipe cleaners out with the largest at the bottom and the smallest at the top. When You’ve done this lay the brown pipe cleaner on top.
3. Carefully wrap the green pipe cleaners around the brown to make the branches.
4. Thread your perler beads on each branch and gently curve the branches upwards.
5. Bend a teeny bit of the top of the brown pipe cleaner forward and hook some hanging thread under it. Press down firmly on the pipe cleaner to hook the thread. Now glue on your start with a glue gun.
If you love these then do check out my other Christmas Crafts
This post is part of a fabulous Kid-Made Christmas collaboration between craft bloggers organised by Jen at Mum In The Mad House. Do pop over and have a look at all the other kids’ crafts that have been posted over the last few weeks and that are coming up. There are some beautiful craft ideas.
What a sweet craft idea they will look cute on the tree and simple to make.
Oh my goodness, how cute are those <3 what a lovely little Christmas craft idea!
These are super cute and a great holiday craft to do with the kids
Love these, so pretty!
Such a lovely craft activity. Little man would enjoy making Christmas trees, looks fun!
Omg how cute are These!!do different too as I’ve not seen these in crafting before x
Wow, this is such a cool idea. It may be a little tedious though but less messy afterwards. I might try to do this for my Christmas tree setup.
These are really cute and a great way of using up the beads x
That is just the cutest little Christmas craft idea!! Just super sweet.
This is such a cute craft idea! I love making decorations with the little one we may have to give this a go x
What a fantastically simple idea! I love Chrismas crafts.
How fab are these- I have my son and nephews for the day next week and wanted some child frieny crafts so will Be giving this a go!
So effective yet so simple, Love this idea! x
What a sweet little craft activity. We’d love to make these x
These look absolutely amazing! We’re definitely going to have to have a go at making some ourselves 🙂
Louise x
Oh my, these are just adorable. Thank you ever so much for joining in with this year’s kid made Christmas series.
Oh my these are just too cute!!
Shared. I really like this idea, easy to make and so cute too!
Aw, thank you so much. Glad you like them xxx