Pony Bead Bowl

LOVE THE RESULTS.
These are so cool it is well worth the work and the stinky kitchen.
I saw THIS and wanted to make it. It looked so easy. My two year old loved dividing my colors and this is the closed lesson I have found to Dale Chihuly's work for children.

I saw THIS image of a candy bowl which also makes me want to a bowl out of candy with leftover candy from the holidays.

This could be done with multiple students if you used foil pie plates!
This is multiple steps but even my two year old loved dividing the colors and arranging them in the pie plate. She really liked playing with the cooled bowl. She tried an "experiment" by putting them in silicone heart shapes to make a necklace and that worked well too.

Supplies:

pony beads

oven (500 degrees)

foil

round cake pan

cookie sheet

coffee cup

oven mitts

Instructions:

1. Arrange beads in foil lined cake pan
2. Put in the oven at 500 degrees, WATCH CLOSELY
3. It should take 10-20 minutes, depending on bead type
4. Let cool completely
5. Put a foil covered coffee mug on top of foil lined baking sheet
6. Balance bead circle on coffee mug
7. Put in oven for a few minutes until the sides fall
8. Let cool completely
   
   

Tips:
*This is a pain but turns out so well
* This smells, open the windows
* Muffin tins are too little and won't work
* Be careful the foil is flat so the bead don't melt around it.
* If you leave holes in the disk of beads, there will be holes in the bowl.






Use the same kind of beads!
 You can make them on a griddle too.