Beads - Flowers, Rainbows & Cylinders

Make bracelets, necklaces, lanyards, keychains, ornaments or whatever else you can dream up with these beads. Print a set of beads for a fun Easter activity! Suitable for most* ages from kids to adults. 

There are rainbows and flowers that are made up of separate parts to allow for fun, interchangeable color combinations. The petal beads can also be used standalone with the middle remaining hollow - just omit printing the center bead. Pair shapes with the different styles of cylinder beads - or with other beads in your stash!

The flower shaped container seen in some photos is a great option for keeping your beads sorted while in storage, and the lid acts as sorting tray while actively beading! 

*use your own discretion to determine if these would pose a choking risk hazard for your child - either provide adequate supervision when using or skip these for the time being

Design Features:

• Standard hole sizing - the beads have a 4mm diameter hole, which matches the common hole size of classic pony beads for easy integration into an existing bead collection
• Easily customizable color combinations - print flowers and flower centers in lots of colors, then combine as you please

Bead Sizes:

Holes have a 4mm diameter on all beads.

• 5 petal flower bead: ~15mm diameter, 7mm tall
• Flower center beads: 7mm diameter, 7mm tall
• 8 petal flower bead: ~19mm diameter, 7mm tall
• Daffodil flower bead: ~18mm, 7.5mm tall
• Rainbow bead: 18mm x 14mm, 7.5mm tall
• Smooth, ribbed & wavy cylinder beads:
  • 7mm diameter, 7.5mm long
  • 7mm diameter, 15mm long
  • 9mm diameter, 7.5mm long
  • 9mm diameter, 15mm long

Notes on Print Settings:

I have only printed these in PLA on a textured PEI plate at the provided sizes - experiment with other configurations & sizes if you wish

• 3 wall loops, 0% infill, aligned seam position
• use pre-set variable layer heights or 0.8mm - print quality of the details on some beads decreases significantly if printed at larger layer heights
• no support, no brim - if the beads are getting dislodged/spaghetti-ing part way through a print, I suggest cleaning your print bed, adding small brims and/or drying your filament
• flower beads with separate centers & rainbows with multiple bows can be printed nested, if in an assembly, then separated later for swapping colors - if you have trouble with unwanted fusing, use the non-nested configurations