From 2d to 3d - How to Make a Water Lily Hair Bun Holders With Hama Beads

This is a instructable that will show you how to make a water lily hairbun holder with hama beads.

It is a part of a series of instructables that aim to help explain how you can use beads to prepare kids for learning how to work with 3d-printing.

This project was inspired by this instructable for making 3d-printed hairbun holder and it shows how you can make you hama beads figures more 3D by bending them.

Supplies

Supplies:

Hama Beads

Hama mini-Beads

Glue

Baking paper

Fishing line

Tools:

Iron

Scissor

Needle

Large Hama beads plate

Square plate for Hama mini-beads

Star plate for Hama mini-beads

Step 1: Make the Figures

First step is to make the figures on the bead plate. You can see the designs above.

Then heat up your iron and put a piece of baking paper on top of your figure. Then carefully heat it up, so the beads melt together. Don't use to much heat and no steam iron!

When all the beads have melted together you can take the beads of the plate and turn them around. Put baking paper on the new side and also heat that one up.

Be aware that the flower is made by Hama-mini beads, while the other figures are made with normal hama beads.

Step 2: Bend Them

Now you can reheat and bend them a bit.

Step 3: Glue and Sew Parts Together

Now first glue the water parts to the water lily. Make sure that the holes are alligned if you want to sew them together.

After the glue had dried I also sew the water and water lily together, to be sure that it held. I used fishing line, so that it was very hard to see the thread.

Step 4: Add Flower and Butterfly

You can find a guide on how to make a Hama-bead butter fly here. I used a slightly different design, mostly because I had it laying around from another project.

Now first glue the flower parts to the water lily. Then glue the butterfly to the flower. Make sure that the holes are alligned if you want to sew them together.

After the glue had dried I also sew the flower and butterfly on, to make sure that it held.