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Christmas Beaded Ornaments

These Christmas beaded ornaments will add character and beauty to your tree. These kids craft ornaments use pipe cleaners, pony beads and wooden beads. Add a little ribbon to make for a pretty way to hang on your tree. You can pick up pony beads and wooden beads at just about any craft store, or order them online.  One of my favorite online craft stores is createforless.com.  Shop the CreateForLess Weekly Specials and save on hot craft supplies, new products & more. Simply scroll through the page to see all these Christmas beaded projects or use the links below to go to the specific kids craft ideas you want to try.

Toy Soldier
Snowman
Christmas Tree
Reindeer

Supplies

1 1/2 pipe cleaners

	Take a full pipe cleaner and bend in half (but don't cut it).
	From the folded end, thread on one oblong shaped wooden bead about half way down.
	Now take 1/2 a pipe cleaner and twist it in the middle just above the wooden bead to form two arms.
	Now thread on a small round wooden bead from the folded end for the toy soldier's head.  Add another oblong wooden bead for the hat, leaving enough of the folded pipe cleaner to thread string or ribbon for hanging on your tree.
	Now to create the arms, simply thread on two oblong shaped wooden beads and bend the pipe cleaner back to hold in place.
	To make the toy soldier's legs, take the pipe cleaner that is hanging out from the bottom of the body and spread these two ends apart. Thread on each leg a small wooden round bead, an oblong bead and finish with another round bead.  Bend back the pipe cleaner to hold in place.

Supplies

1/2 pipe cleaner (your choice of color)
1/4 pipe cleaner (your choice of color)

	Take the 1/2 pipe cleaner and fold in half (but don't cut).
	From the folded end, thread the large wooden bead slightly lower than the middle of the pipe cleaner.
	Using the 1/4 piece of pipe cleaner, wrap this around the other pipe cleaner just above the large wooden bead.  This becomes the snowman's scarf.
	Thread the small wooden bead leaving some pipe cleaner on top.  I like to bend this part of the pipe cleaner down to make it look like the snowman is wearing ear muffs.
	Now fold back the two ends hanging out of the body of the snowman to hold the bead in place.  We bent ours forward to make it look like ice skates, but however you want to bend to hold in place is fine.

Supplies

5 Green Pipe Cleaners
Several clear pony beads
A handful of colored pony beads

	Take one green pipe cleaner and form a circle, twisting the two ends together.
	Cut the remaining pipe cleaners in half.
	Take each half of the green pipe cleaners (saving one for the top) and bend one end around the circle base.  You should have seven pieces tied to the circle shaped pipe cleaner.
	Now thread each one with clear and colored beads, mixing and matching colors however you want to.  Leave room at the top of each pipe cleaner to wrap around the top circle which we will make in just a bit. The beading is a great job for the smaller children but just make sure they don't put these small pony beads in their mouth.
	After each pipe cleaner is beaded, take the remaining 1/2 pipe cleaner and cut in half again.  Now twist the two ends and form a small circle.
	Wrap the ends of each beaded pipe cleaner around the small circle to form the top of your X-mas tree.  This will give it a tree shape.

Supplies

3 1/2 red or brown pipe cleaners
4 oblong wooden beads
5 small round wooden beads

	Take the 3 full pipe cleaners and bead an oblong wooden bead half way down.
	Take one end of a pipe cleaner on each side of the wooden bead and bend up.  These will be the reindeers horns and tail.
	For the pipe cleaners that are bent up, pull on one end making it slightly longer than the other.  The longer end will be the head and horns.
	Thread a round wooden ball through the longer end of the pipe cleaner. Bend the remaining end of the pipe cleaner up to hold the head in place. We will get the horns in just a bit.
	Take the shorter end (the tail) and bend it in a loop to form the tail.
	Now for the legs.  Take an oblong shaped wooden bead and thread through each end of the 4 pipe cleaners that are bent down from the body.  Next thread a round wooden bead and bend back the pipe cleaner to hold in place.
	The last step is the create the horns.  With the 1/2 red pipe cleaner, cut it in half again.  Take one of these cut pieces and twist it around the pipe cleaner end that is sticking out from the reindeer's head (close to the round wooden bead).
	Take the remaining cut pipe cleaner and cut into smaller pieces to twist around the two bigger horns.  You can have the horns be as many as you want or only a few (it's up to you).