A flash here, a flash there. Mardi Gras brings out a side in us girls that nosotros wouldn't show anywhere else (at to the lowest degree most of us). If you dare to bare information technology during Mardi Gras we guarantee you'll be going home with your share of beads. Beingness environmentally conscience I'd detest to see all these plastic beads current of air upwardly in a landfill so I accept made a list of things that you can do with your Mardi Gras Beads.

Chances are yous received beads in a rainbow of colors with the predominant theme beingness purple greenish and gilt. You tin can sort them by color or create combinations to accommodate your holiday, theme, décor or whatever.

Make a decorative beaded doorway curtain. Cut them open to course long strands. Necktie those strands together and fourth dimension them to a strand that you string across the top or the doorway. This is a retro expect that is nifty for dorm rooms and kid'southward rooms.

Use them as mantle tie backs – metallic, faceted beads

Lace them through the holes of your shower while wrapping them around the curtain rod. They add color to a apathetic bathroom and they won't get rust stains on your shower curtains like inexpensive metal hooks.

Give them to your kids, nieces, etc to employ every bit dress-up jewelry. Piffling girls can't get plenty of this stuff.

Decorate a lampshade – cut the necklace to make 1 long strand. Hot gum several strands to an inexpensive white lampshade. This is a great idea for play rooms, kid's rooms and dorm rooms.

Sew them in a round pattern onto an one-time bathing conform top for a risqué and sexy Mardi Gras costume for next twelvemonth.

Put a large pillar candle in a hurricane lamp. Make full the lamp with beads half way up the candle. Make sure y'all employ an evaporating candle and then wax won't melt all over the beads. This is perfect for Christmas, Halloween, Valentines, St. Pats and 4thursday of July depending on the colors you apply. Stick to a white candle and all yous need to do is change the beads.

Hang a few them from your rear view mirror every bit a emblem of your good time at Mardi Gras.

Decorate your Christmas tree. The beads sparkle and so nicely in the Christmas Tree lights.

If you lot still have beads left over, offer them to a school or mail service an ad for free beads on Craigslist.