Kids Crafts: Free Perler Bead Patterns Online

Fuse beads are a fun craft activity for kids of all ages. You can take the beads and design different things by fusing the beads together with a hot iron on different shape pegboards. Two of the main manufacturers of these fuse beads are Perler and Hama. You can buy the beads in assorted colors, and the pegboards in shapes such as squares, circles, heart, flower, boy or girl, horse, butterfly, and many more. You can make the finished projects to hang on a wall, for magnets, to hang on a window and more. This guide will help you find free perler bead patterns on the internet.

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Making Friends has alot of free Perler or Hama bead patterns on their website. You will find Thanksgiving patterns for cornucopia and turkey, eggholder for Easter eggs, Shamrock shoe decorations, and winter sports such as skating, and sledding. They also have free Hama or Perler bead patterns for a heart necklace, notepad, patriotic pins, spaceship and spaceman and a friends photo frame. One of my favorite designs is for the Noah's Arc and dove.

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Bead Merrily in the UK has a wonderful free pattern for alphabet apples. Your kids can make their first name out of the apples and make them into magnets to hang on the refrigerator. You can also spell out Welcome and Apples to add to your apple decor in your kitchen. Perler bead and Hama beads are even fun for Adults. You can also purchase supplies here.

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This website has a total of six free Perler bead patterns that you have to hit the next button to get to. Here you will find patterns for a flipflop, palm tree, flamingo, rainbow, smiley and heart with arrow. These patterns are great beginner projects.

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This is the official Perler Bead website that makes the beads. They have a gallery of archives of free Perler bead patterns created by kids and adults that go back to the year 2005. You will also find designs here that they have created for 3D projects, holidays and more. This website has hundreds of patterns created by users of Perler beads. If you submit one original design to them each month that you make out of the Perler beads to be in their gallery they will send you a free pack of Perler beads, twizzers, or one of their design books through the mail. You can also purchase Perler bead supplies here.

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Flickr has thousands of free Perler bead patterns on their website created by users. You have to search their website for Perler beads. Here you will find free Perler or Hama bead patterns for the Smurfs, Pacman, the Simpsons, Hello Kitty, Donald Duck, Yoda, Snow White, Mario Bros characters, Disney fairies such as Tinkerbell, and alot more.

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This website has free Perler bead patterns for three different angels. These projects would be nice to make for Christmas gifts or magnets. You could also hang them from Christmas gifts for gift tags or make into Christmas ornaments to hang from your Christmas tree.

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You can also buy Perler Bead design software for your computer to make your own designs using photos or images. On their website you can find patterns for Oscar the Grouch, R2D2, Spongebob, Mickey Mouse and more. You don't have to have the software to view the patterns that were submitted by users of the software.

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DLTK kids has a free Perler pattern to make a daisy bracelet with elastic. They also have other fuse bead projects so be sure to check out their website.

For these patterns Adult supervision is required to use the hot iron to fuse the projects together. This is a fun kids craft and is great for school classrooms, or projects to do with your kids or Grandkids. You can buy the beads and pegboards at any craft stores or your local Walmart. Enjoy!