Bean Ball

I saw these little decorative balls at Michael's last week and thought, "hey, I can make that", and then less than a week later, I started seeing them pop up all over the craft blog circuit, so obviously everyone else saw the same ball and had the same idea. I have a large mouth vase that I put some little decorative balls in that I got at a garage sale a few summers ago. The balls are sort of big and they take up a lot of space but leave some empty space in there too. So, I thought if I made some smaller balls to fill the voids it would look better.

My 7 year old daughter and I set to work with some Styrofoam balls, beans, and a hot glue gun. We tried the random approach, placing the beans in all shapes and size all over, but I like the look of the more defined orderly beans in a row around.





Sorting the beans is a good activity for younger hands while you do the gluing with the hot glue gun.

Can you tell why I like the ball with the red beans better? The one where we put them on in a crazy pattern looks like a ball of old gum or something. Oh well, live and learn!