Hot Beading Craze

My 7 year old received a large set of beads and bead plates for Christmas.  Once home from our travels, but before the start of the school, she spent a couple of days hot beading like it was the end of the world.

Hot beading!

The image above is just the first day!  The second day home she made more!  She'd construct a hot bead design and then I'd stop what I was doing and iron it.  Repeat.  Repeat.  Repeat.  The iron stayed on the kitchen counter (off of course!) for 4 days!  I don't know how many beads were in the set she received, but she used a good portion of them!  Good thing too as it was super cold out and going outside for more than 15-20 minutes was actually unsafe.  The hot bead set gave her something to do while allowing me to get a few things done around the house before returning to work!  

If you have a kid with nothing to do and it's too cold to go outside, buy a hot bead set and put them to work!