How to make your own beaded garden stakes for your yard.
DIY beaded garden stakes
These easy beaded garden stakes are kid-friendly, budget-friendly, and super-easy to make, but they add such a beautiful accent to your garden or yard.
Kids want to help? Once you start a bead on a wire, the kids can do the rest themselves. Love color?
Make the strings of beads even longer and more plentiful. You can also choose one color of bead per plant prop and make a rainbow trail through your garden or along your front walk.
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beaded garden stakes
You only need a few supplies to make these beaded garden stakes.
Grab an inexpensive plant prop and some green plant wire from a garden supply store.
To save on the beads, try heading to the craft store for sales on colorful, glass beads, or search the internet for bulk discounts.
You’ll also need scissors that can cut the wire, but some wire comes with a built-in cutter if you don’t already own proper scissors.
you will need:
- 24-inch plant prop
- green padddle wire (any gauge to fit the holes in your beads)
- colorful, glass beads fitted with holes
- heavy-duty scissors
Snip a piece of wire 10-inches long (or any comparable length you prefer).
Wrap one end securely around a glass bead.
Thread glass beads 6 to 6 1/2-inches along the wire. Wrap the remaining wire around the circular top of the plant prop.
Dangle at least three beaded wires for each plant prop.
TIPS: Make the beaded wires longer or add more per plant prop for a more colorful look.
For even more possibilities, head to a specialty bead store and find beads in the shapes of animals, characters, cupcakes, other types of food, and even emojis.
Push into the ground to display!
I love, love, love my beaded garden ornaments. I think these will be my version of the pink flamingo for many years to come.
This post for easy beaded garden stakes also appears on Crafts by Amanda.
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ColleenB.~ Tx. says
What a cute and lovely idea and great way to add a bit more color to potted plants or just to put along a sidewalk, etc. Relaxing project to do indoors when it’s too hot to work outside.
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ColleenB.~ Tx. says
Also be pretty to do in your favorite colors and adding to one;s Christmas tree
meaghanmountford says
Thank you Colleen!! Love the idea of along the sidewalk and for Christmas trees! One of ours is in a plain, green potted plant on the porch, and it adds just the right amount of color.
Buff Bicknell says
They are cute, but those beads look like really expensive ones. Beads are my passion and I’ve been looking all over the net for big glass beads so I know where of I speak lol!
meaghanmountford says
Here is the link to the beads I used for this project. They are $8.49 for 50.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XJ1FXTA?ie=UTF8&tag=thedecocook-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B00XJ1FXTA
Susan says
I have a stupid question. You may have covered it and I missed it, but how do you keep the beads from falling off the bottom. Do you just make one huge note or use something else to keep them secure? They are great looking and I happen to have a bunch of them because I was going to start making jewelry but now I’m not, so I know what I will be making instead. So glad I didn’t get rid of my glass beads in my last yard sale. Thanks for the great idea.
meaghanmountford says
Hi Susan, Great question! For the first bead, I wrap the wire around it securely. So, thread the wire, then basically come around and thread it again so it’s secure!