My kids recently got into perler beads and after seeing all the fun colors they came in, I knew they were just begging to be used in a craft project. I had recently made my door knobs turned wall hooks for the guest room and had hooks on the brain, so I used some fun ombre pink to orange perler beads to make a set of hooks for my daughters room.

First I chose my colors (that was a no brainer since these are the colors I have used in her room). I then used the hexagon perler plate to create a small hexagon 5 perler beads wide along the edges. I didn’t want the perler bead piece to be too large that it would get the in way of the actual function of the hooks.

 

I created the colorful hexagons one color at a time and ironed them according to the package directions making sure not to let them melt too much, but enough that they were held together firmly.

Once I had my hexagon perler bead pieces, it was time to create the hook base. I used some pieces of craft wood blocks that I picked up at Michaels craft store, some half bolt half screw specialty pieces from Home Depot and some strong glue (I started with the E6000, but ended up using some Alene’s jewelry and metal glue because the E6000 wasn’t strong enough).