Pipe cleaner and crystal bead candy canes.
Notice a bit of a pattern around here? :D

Bead drops from paddle wheel, pearl and faceted beads.

More paddlewheel bead and pipe cleaner candy cane Christmas tree ornaments.

Paddle wheel bead candy canes.
These are long ones, the length of a pipe cleaner. In blue and green tints.
Click picture for actual size.

More pipe cleaners and beads:
wreaths made with paddle wheel, crystal, smilie faces.

Some Styrofoam ball snowfolk.
Sequin features. The green hats are felt-covered bottle caps.
One scarf is a pipe cleaner.

My daughter made this tree completely from fuzzy pipe cleaners.

Pipe cleaner candy cane pairs.
One each color, cut in half, for each pair.
Twist, bend crook, twist together with scrap red pipe cleaner then formed into a bow.

More Christmas ornaments;
Paddlewheel and bead wreaths, strung on pipe cleaners.

Pipe cleaner and bead wreaths.

Fishing bobber candy canes. Strung on pipe cleaners.

Wreath ornaments made from fishing bobbers strung on pipe cleaners.

It's chilly today, so we made some Spring flowers
Supplies:
pipe cleaners (chenille stems) - 7 each of pink, yellow, green, blue, and violet; 3 white, 1 orange.
1 4 inch Styrofoam circle - I used one dismantled from another project
white glue

Starting at the bottom of the foam circle, apply pipe cleaners. Bend each end slightly, add glue and insert into the foam. They will not reach quite all the way around. I started with pink, then yellow, blue and purple to mimic the rainbow. You can glue the whole length if you want to.When the side is covered, take shorter pieces of stems, bending the ends, and insert them with a blob of glue ( into the bottom and into the top surfaces) around the circle from top to bottom. This will help to hold the horizontal stems in place. I made my first upright opposite the gap in coverage. Insert 2 more equal distances between front and the back gap. Fill the back gap the same way, I used one pink in the middle of the gap and continued out in the rainbow. (My daughter made hers with the filled gap in front, she said it reminded her of a bow.)
Twist the 3 white stems together to make a strong 'trunk', fold one each of the colors in half to make the petals of the umbrella arch; and twist together at the ends to create the arch. Add a blob of glue and insert into the foam near the back.
Extra pipe cleaners can be made into the garden flowers and the pink butterfly.
Make sure the weight is balanced, as the back umbrella rainbow arch is quite heavy and could cause it to tip over. The purple flower on the front along with careful placement of the garden flowers was enough to keep it quite balanced.