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DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Tri Bead Wreath

This is another fairly traditional preschool thru early grade school craft.  I recently completed it with my Grade 3 daughter and she loved it too!  (My Kindergarten daughter finished the one in the photo mostly unassisted -- the only help I gave was forming it into a circle at the end.)

The patterning is great practice and makes a cute Christmas Tree decoration.

Materials:

  • 16 tri beads in 3 different colors (red, green and white) for a total of 48 beads
  • 1 pipe cleaner in green, red, white or silver

Directions:

  • ADULT:  place a spare bead or button at the end of the pipecleaner and loop it around once to hold it (this just holds the beads on as the children make the craft)
     
  • Thread the beads onto the pipecleaner in a pattern
     
  • ADULT:  remove the holder bead.  Twist the pipecleaner into a circle.  Tie the ends of the pipecleaner into a bow shape.  You can put a dab of tacky glue on to hold if you want (we didn't bother as the it holds together on its own quite nicely).

 

 

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