Instead, the melted pieces of these beads could be wiggled like a loose tooth. We used a small drill bit to drill a hole in two of the pieces, one to hang from our window, and the other to turn into a necklace.Ī side note on the UV beads: these melted just fine, but they didn’t bond with the other melted beads to create a nice solid piece upon cooling. It’s that easy! Seriously! And the payoff with this melted pony bead art is HUGE! You get some insanely pretty pieces that can be functional as well. I suspect they still should though since the color changing polymer was at one point in the melted plastic as it got molded into pony beads.

I have no idea if these will still change color after the baking process (since the gray skies mean I can’t really check). We happened to have color changing UV beads on hand from a previous science project. If you have kids, you likely already have everything you need on hand, pony beads, foil, metal cookie cutters, and an oven. We made suncatchers and necklaces with our final pieces! I saw these melted pony bead art projects online the other day and thought not only would it be a fun art project, but also a great opener to talking about a ton of science! This project lets us talk about how things melt, and even what things melt, as well as how light interacts with materials. With the rain and the gray skies, a little touch of color is always a welcome addition. Winter in Seattle can be a dreary, dreary time.

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