Melted Bead Sun Catchers - stars and hearts

This week, Lillie and I made these stars and hearts sun catchers. The star is perfect for the 4th of July, and the heart will be great for Valentines Day. 

This was my pinspiration:

I saw this melted bead sun catcher on Pinterest.  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=185741.0  I decided to give it a try, but make different shapes for holidays.  This crafter used metal pie pans and ceramic plates, but I thought that I could use cookie cutters wrapped in foil.  


I used metal cookie cutters and these aluminum cookie tins.

Lillie arranged the plastic beads in the bottom of the aluminum shape.

I needed to build a form for the heart cookie cutter, so I placed the heart on a piece of aluminum foil and wrapped the foil up around the top of the cookie cutter.

Lillie placed the beads in the bottom of the heart shape.  Make sure that there are enough beads in the bottom of the shape, so that when they melt, there will not be holes.

I placed the shapes on an old cookie sheet and placed it in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. (longer or shorter based on oven.)  When you melt the beads, be sure to open the windows and make sure that the house it well ventilated.

After, the beads melted, I let the creations cool while we went outside to play.

After they cooled, I popped them out of the forms.  I drilled a small hole in the sun catchers and used fishing line to hang them up.

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