LITTLE PEOPLE'S POT O' GOLD
LITTLE PEOPLE'S POT O' GOLD
Materials needed: 1. One 1-inch diameter round wooden bead 2. 5
or 6 black seed beads 3. Approximately 2-inches wire, fine
enough to fit through the seed beads. 4. Black paint 5. Gold
glitter 6. 2-inches twine, 1/8-inch diameter 7. Scrap paper,
1/4-inch square 8. Tacky glue 9. Shamrock green construction
paper 10. scrap wire
Tools required: 1. Small paintbrush 2. Needle-nose pliers 3.
Small sharp scissors
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INSTRUCTIONS: (Important - read them until you fully understand
them)
1. Hold large bead with threading hole vertical.
2. Glue three or four seed beads in a circle around the top
threading hole. Allow glue to dry. Turn large bead over, to
stand bead "pot" on it's legs.
3. Glue one seed bead onto each side of the standing "pot" bead
to use as handle anchors. Each bead is glued on one end of its
threading hole so the other end will hold the wire "handle."
4. To form pot "rim", glue twine around the bead "pot", about
2/3 to the top, above the "handle" holder side seed beads.
5. Glue 1/4-inch paper scrap over top hole of large bead "pot".
6. To form pot "handle", bend wire into U-shape. With pliers,
bend each end at right angle, glue into bead "handle" anchors.
7. Paint entire bead "pot" and handle black.
8. Carefully spread glue over top of "pot" bead inside the pot
"rim." Then spread Gold Glitter onto glue and allow to dry.
9. Cut green paper into small tear-drop shapes. Glue four to a
tiny piece of wire to form "shamrock" and "stem." Then glue to
side of "pot" or onto the pot "handle."
10. Add a small green bow if you so desire. Then print in gold
on the side of the black kettle -- "Pot O' Gold" or "Good Luck!"