Heat up your iron. Put a piece of Perler bead ironing paper over the beads, then iron over the beads until they melt enough to fuse together. Cut 2 long pieces of string.

The process includes using Perler beads to outline a pegboard then melting the beads, with an iron, to seal the design, Tania Santiago said.

As DIY crafts go, perler beads are about as simple as they come. (We won't say 'easy' because even perler beads are easy to screw up.) While our creativity was limited to ironing 2-D ...