Pretty Pretty Easy = Mom Win!

Pretty and easy junk suncatcher (Pay no attention to the small hand prints and baby slobber on the window)

I have a great Super Mom points project for you! Ideas from pintrest along with a bit of "I wonder waht would happen if..." ended up being really cool. So here is a how to!

Items needed:

1) Cheap plastic beads. We used pony beads and some others that we found floating around in the craft supplies. You want hard plastic, not soft. Next time I am totally adding glitter!

2) Oven proof containers. These round ones were made in a mini muffin pan and the star is from a metal cookie cutter that we placed on a metal pan.

3) String, twine, monofilament, whatever. Something to hang your pretties from.

Place your beads into your containers and cover the bottoms. They should only be 1 layer thick, don't stack them or it leaves weird bumps, too few and you get gaps. Place into a preheated 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. Cool and then tap the pans to remove shapes. We drilled some holes in ours using Daddy's drill press and tied them up. #3 snatched up the rest for his collection. (He's 4, you know he has "collections") TA DA!

*I should note that there is a plastic fume smell with this. We had to limit our creations to 1 oven load a day, because of the slightly nasty, possibly toxic fumes. It would be best to do this on an open window day, or even outside with a toaster oven.

The kids were so happy with this durable, pretty craft that I see many coming in our future and if you know us, probably coming to you in your next gift :) They thought I had really come up with something neat and I could see the wheels turning in #2's head. Yes, my mom cape was totally showing on this one!