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Decorate your tree with pretty candy decorations made from melted beads.
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Step 1Before you start, you will need to find something appropriate to melt your beads in. I recommend metal cupcake baking trays, but for this I used oven-safe, rubber mini muffin moulds.
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Step 2Line your moulds with tinfoil so that you don't wreck them, this also gives the plastic a nice cracked-candy look.
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Step 3Fill each mould with coloured beads, so that the bottom surface is completely covered. I used a mixture of clear beads and solid beads to make different kinds of 'candy'.
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Step 4Melt down in the oven, set at it's highest heat. This should take about 30 minutes, but keep checking to make sure they don't burn.
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Step 5When the plastic has completely cooled, remove the tinfoil. You should be left with little, round, plastic plates.
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Step 6Cut a long rectangle of cellophane and two lengths of jewellery wire.
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Step 7Place a plastic candy in the center of the cellophane and wrap up.
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Step 8Twist either end of the cellophane, as you would do with real candy, and wrap the wire around to secure in place.
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Step 9Repeat this with the other side and cut off any unwanted cellophane from either side.
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Step 10Make a whole bunch of these.
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Step 11Attach a length of string to your candy and hang on your Christmas tree.
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Do they make square ones?
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