super simple and add some homemade charm to our christmas tree bead your own ornaments. how to make beaded pipe cleaner dragonflies one little. fold one of the pipe cleaners in half add about 10 plastic pony beads onto the pipe cleaner half, leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner showing at the folded end after this step, it should look like this: take one of the other pipe cleaners and shape it into a circle, crossing over the ends by about 1 2 inch. 