Use plastic-free beads, made from materials like wood ... maybe you are lucky enough to have a dedicated secondhand craft supply store in your area. After you score your thrifted jewelry, there ...

You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into a peg board and then ironed to produce a solid multicolored piece of plastic. Recently ...

That experience in the craft store had stuck with her. "Symbolically, suddenly the melty beads took on a lot more meaning," Burke says. A plastic craft material often used by children, melty beads ...