Penguins!

My daughter spends two days a week at infusions. The Child Life Specialist at John Hopkins is very good with the kids/teens. She gives them cool crafts to help keep them occupied and for the younger children they have things like Lego's  or movies on DVD etc...

Today Fran got a cute beaded penguin which she put together in about an hour. Here's the completed project and materials you will need. It looks like this--

Here's the materials you will need to complete this little penguin--

• 1 Metal ring
• 18 white beads
• 3 orange beads
• 31 black beads
• 4 feet of black cord

Instructions:

Here are some step by step pictures to show you the progress.

And of course the finished Product!

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