Making beads from plastic carrier bags and cellophane sweet wrappers

You will need:

• Plastic carrier bags
• Sweetie wrappers
• Metallic threads (optional)
  
• Wooden barbeque stick
• Heat gun

The first job is a tough one (but someone's got to do it!) - eat some sweeties and/or choccies and gather together some cellophane sweetie wrappers!!

Wrap a strip of carrier bag around the stick. Then on top wrap a sweetie wrapper around the stick and secure with a pin to stop it unfolding while you heat. I did try using some with a little bit of foil on but it doesn't work as well as the cellophane type wrappers














Hold the heat gun 6-8 inches away from the cello and heat up and down twisting the stick. The plastic carrier bag will fuse together and the cello will melt and fuse to the plastic






I thought it looked a little plain and unfinished so I added two more layers of sweetie wrappers and some copper metallic thread







I heated the bead again so the top layer of cello wrapper fused to the bead







Let it cool down and then push the bead off the stick







The finished bead

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