Venerable Beads

Rosie had such fun during half term, using Hama beads for the first time. But first we had to sort the colours into plastic bowls to facilitate her design work.

This meant the task took longer than I'd expected. I remembered that when we were in Kirby Muxloe, I had them all sorted into glass jars - but when we moved, I emptied them all into two big tubs, and recycled the jars, to make packing easier [and lighter]

But last week, whilst watching TV in the evening, I sat with a tray on my lap, and Bob's sharp needle-nose tweezers, and sorted the lot. It took hours

I haven't many spare jars at the minute, but this is what 10,000+ beads look like all neatly separated by colour [I gave up with black, white grey, and stuck those all in together]

Despite declaring last year that we had finished doing Holiday Clubs, we are going to run a One Day Event in the Easter Holidays. As I was sorting, a craft idea involving threading the beads occurred to me [but nothing with hot irons, when you have a crowd of youngsters to contend with!] 

I immediately stopped sorting, and grabbed my tin of mini Tiptree jars.

It didn't take long to put a scoop of mixed beads into each of 30 jars all ready for April!

Have you ever done any crafting with Hama beads? 

They are fine until you catch the edge of the jar with your elbow, and sprinkle them in a rainbow all over the carpet!