Pony Bead Corn & Pumpkins

2 and up: 30 Minutes: Thanksgiving

Children can create a great take-home craft with these fun corn and pumpkin shapes!

Place pony beads in bowls and set out the rest of the supplies.

Develop fine motor skills
Create a festive autumn decoration
Experiment with color patterning

Talk about different kinds of corn and their uses. Perhaps you could bring in some dried ears of different kinds of corn to show the children.

For pumpkins, take eight brown pipe cleaners and bunch them together. Fold the bunch in half and twist once. Spread the “legs” out evenly.

String the “legs” with orange pony beads, leaving about an inch at each end.

Twist the ends together to form a stem and attach a curled green pipe cleaner around the stem for a vine.

For corn, bunch eight brown or yellow pipe cleaners together. Fold the bunch in half and twist once. Spread the “legs” out evenly.

String the “legs” with white, orange, and/or yellow pony beads, leaving about an inch at each end.

Twist ends together.