Thanksgiving Craft: Pony Bead Indian Corn
Hi everyone! I’m so excited to share this Thanksgiving craft with you today! When we were making our pony bead pumpkins a couple months ago, there was a point where the beads looked like an ear of corn. I knew that we would be making some pony bead Indian corn for Thanksgiving.
To make an ear of Indian corn, you just need four tan pipe cleaners and pony beads in yellow, orange, white, and maroon.
My kids are still pretty young, so I did all of the pipe cleaner parts and they had fun with the beads. Take two of your pipe cleaners and make an “X”. Twist them around each other in the middle.
Take two more pipe cleaners and wrap them around the middle the same way.
Now let the kids go at it with the beads! Funny, it was so hard for my son to NOT make a pattern. He’s very mathematically minded.
Leave a couple inches at the end of each pipe cleaner.
Bring all of the ends together.
Take one of the pipe ends and wrap it around the others.
Wrap another piece of pipe cleaner around the stem if it’s not secure enough, and you are done!
They look so cute with the pony bead pumpkins!
For some more awesome Thanksgiving crafts, go check out these posts from some of my blog buddies. I know you will love their blogs!
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| Click here to see the Pony Bead Pumpkins that we made! |
About how many beads did you use for these? I’m trying to figure out how many beads to order for a large group.
Iām excited to do this craft with my Kindergarten class. Thanks Jessica!
Is there a link to where you purchased those particular pony bead colors? Or buy the colors individually?
Thanks! Super cute and canāt wait to make with my kids!
I think I bought them at Michaels. You can buy bags of individual colors.
Hi..love the Indian corn! My crafting friends say I make everything into a wearable pin..I’ll be sizing this down and it will be an adorable fall accessory..thanks..!
I combined this with a lesson about maize as a staple of the indigenous diet and how far this food choice goes back, and we talked about things that are made of corn today. I would love to share a picture of how ours turned out. My class loved it.
So glad your class liked this craft! I would love to see a photo! You can email it to me at cutesycrafts@hotmail.com.
thanks for sharing
You’re welcome!
Once again, what a genius and adorable idea! I featured you today š Thanks for linking up with the Ginger Jamboree!
Will do this at the next Girl scout meeting! Simple and perfect. Thank you.
You’re welcome! So glad you like it!
These are adorable! I was actually at a friends house yesterday, and I saw this project on her craft table. I love it! So perfect for my kiddos. Pinning it!
Yay! I love when people are actually doing my projects! Thanks! š
I just love these and I remember your pumpkins I loved those too! I am featured these over at We Made That Wednesday today check it out herehttp://we-made-that.com/we-made-that-linky-party-64/ and thanks so much for sharing them with us!
Yay! Thanks Tracey. I’ll be over to check it out!
Just pinned this… what a fun and easy project to do with the kids, who love anything to do with beads. Perfect! thanks for sharing š
You’re welcome! Glad you like it!
These are just too cute! And so easy! My kiddos will love to make these this week!
Stopping by from Sugar Bee Crafts. Following on g+ and twitter now! š
Thanks Kelley! Following you back.
Love love love this craft! SO easy and perfect! Thanks for linking up to Tickled Pink Times Two.
Make it a pink day!
Thank you! Love your party!
This is fantastic, I love how simple it is. Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat link party!
Britni @ Play. Party. Pin.
Thanks, Britni! Hopefully I’ll be back next week! š
I just started following you on twitter and that got me to your blog. Cute stuff!
Thanks, Karen!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! How great is this!! I love indian corn and can’t buy it here… I might just make up a big bunch of these to substitute :o)!!!Pinning right now!! ;o) Emily
Thanks, Emily! So sad that you can’t buy it there. It’s so pretty for fall!
What a fun project! It turned out super cute š
Thanks, Bethany!
OH MY HEAVENS! This is pure GENIUS! We will definitely be making these! I LOVE IT! So simple and DARLING!
Thanks, Brooklyn! The kids always love putting beads on things!