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Beaded Picnic Utensils

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If you love easy summer crafts then you'll love these Wire Wrapped and Beaded Picnic Utensils from Candace . This project is perfect for a summer Materials: Plastic flatware 18 gauge wire – 8″ per flatware piece Assorted beads Focal bead Instructions: Make a sma ll spiral in one end of the wire.   Think of the smallest part of the spiral as  the centre of the handle. Make a bead trap by creating a sharp bend away from the centre, sliding on a bead and bending the wire sharply back toward the centre.   Pin the spiral at the  top of the handle with your thumb as you wrap the wire around the handle. Slide on a bead.   Trap the bead with a sharp bend away from the center.Bend the wire to the center and slide on your focal bead.   Wrap the wire around the handle, slide a bead on and trap it with a sharp bend away from the center. Wrap the remaining wire into a spiral and center it.The wire will slide off easily to be reused or re-purposed. I wrapp