Indian Corn Pins

I have seen these pins before online at other sites and wanted to try making my own for family. I had some tri-beads left over from the year before.

I used Fall colored tri-beads. I used brown paper twist instead of the brown paper ribbon that it asks for in the instructions.

Materials Needed:
Chenille stems (pipe cleaners)
6mm faceted beads (fall colors – golden yellow)
Tri beads (fall colors)
Tacky Glue (Aleene’s for example)
Pin backPaper Ribbon (light brown, tanish)
Raffia - natural

Directions:
Step 1:
Cut a 2 ½ inch piece of chenille. Glue a 6 mm faceted bead to the end of the chenille stem. String 11 Tri-beads on the chenille stem in a random color pattern. Make sure the beads nest together and trim the chenille to ¼ inch.

Step 2:
Cut a 4 x 1 piece of paper ribbon. Trim the ends – rounded bottom, slightly pointed top.

Step 3:
Glue the beaded chenille stem to the paper ribbon by placing glue on the
¼ inch length of stem and pressing the paper ribbon around it.

Step 4:
Repeat steps 1 through 3 for as many individual ears of corn as you wish to make. I used 3 to make a pin.

Step 5:
Glue the three corn ears together at the neck. Cut three 14-inch lengths of raffia and tie a bow around them.If you prefer you can do one ear or two ears of corn for a pin – I used three)

Step 6:
Glue a pin back on the back of the corn.

I got the instructions from a girl scouts web site.
http://www.geocities.com/gsmahtomedi/IndianCorn.html

They show a picture of their pin on the site.

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