Enjoy 29 free Perler bead patterns! Create cute animals ... This craft is fun for kids and makes a heartfelt gift. Make cute fruit-inspired drink covers with your kids! This fun summer craft ...

[Jon Wilson] sent in an awesome bead pattern generator that takes those color images of video game sprites – and just about any other picture – and translates them into Perler bead patterns.

The most common examples of Perler art you’ll find online are recreations of 16-bit video game pixel art, and it can take hours to lay out all the colored beads into the appropriate pattern by hand.