Sparkling Ice Crystals
I’ve made a ton of beaded snowflake ornaments over the years. This year, I thought I’d try something a bit different, and do something a bit more dimensional.
“Sparkling Ice Crystals” is a beaded ornament design that I got from the family fun website. It’s easy to make and is fairly straight forward.
The instructions call for iridescent pipe cleaners, clear tri- beads and starburst beads, which I used for this particular ornament. My children branched out a bit and used silver pipe cleaners and a wider assortment of beads when they made theirs. At 11 and 14, this beaded ornament was extremely easy for them to make. But you know what? It’s still awesome to sit around the table and chat with them while push beads on to pipe cleaners. 
The beads are just pushed on to the pipe cleaners. I really worried that my precocious toddler was going to have a field day pulling them back off, so instead of hanging them on the tree where she could reach them, I suspended all three (at varying heights) underneath the light fixture that is hanging over my kitchen table. It has sort of a funky, retro look, especially when coupled with the crystal wreath that is hanging in the window!
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