Thread on beads in any pattern you like, until you get to the outside of the wing. To do this, grab a pipe cleaner and twist it around one of the center wires to secure it. We chose to use pipe cleaners and pony beads to add a string of colorful beads to each wing. Kids could cut out colorful paper and glue it behind the wings. Now it’s time to decorate! There are lots of options for decorating: you could use different colorful pipe cleaners and wrap them around the wings. DecorateĪt this point the body of the dragonfly is complete. Use the pliers to bend the ends of the antennae. Push the bead down until it seems secure. Grab a wood bead and thread both straight wire pieces through it. If either of these pieces crosses behind a wing, bring it forward through the wing. This will leave you with two straight wire pieces that will be the antennae. ![]() Grab your pliers and use them to snip off the curved portion of the remaining center loop. Then grab the next two wire pieces, and pull those loops out to the sides in the same way to make a second set of wings. You can also twist the loops a bit to make the wings flat. Pull each loop down until it’s perpendicular to the handle, as shown in the photo below. ![]() You’ll see that they criss cross in the back. Pull the loop you are holding in your right hand to the right and the loop you are holding in your left hand in the left. Turn the whisk until you can find the place where the two top loops come down right next to each other to hook into the handle. You will be pulling the loops of the whisk down to each side to create wings. This part only takes 5-10 minutes, then you can turn the kids loose to decorate as they please. Most kids will need help bending and snipping the wire whisks to create the dragonfly shape, although tweens will probably only need help snipping the center loop. I used this large, inexpensive set of pony beads from Amazon so we would have lots of colors to choose from when decorating.
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