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Pearls

Free to try

Bead patterns for kids

Your child picks a design, zooms in and beads with real beads next to the screen. Hundreds of patterns for pegboards you can buy, for ages 6-8.

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The library on a phone: the categories as small pegboards at the top, filters for board and difficulty, and patterns such as the puppy, the kitten and the ambulance

How to get started

  1. Pick a pattern

    Open Pearls and pick a design that fits the board you have. The patterns have pictures, so your child finds one alone, even before they can read.

  2. Bead next to the screen

    Put the phone or tablet next to the pegboard, zoom in and lock the pattern. Your child places bead after bead, following the screen.

  3. Iron and keep

    A grown-up irons the board with ironing paper on top. Tap Done! in the app and the pattern gets a star.

A taste of the library

Ten of hundreds of patterns, on every board. The rest are in the app, sorted into categories.

A child places a red bead on a clear pegboard with a rainbow and clouds. Next to it, a tablet shows the same pattern, and the beads sit in bowls on the table.
The pattern on the screen and the beads on the table. Your child places bead after bead, following what the app shows.

Finished boards for inspiration

This is how the boards turn out once they are beaded and ironed. Find a design to start with among hundreds of patterns in categories.

  • Ironed bead board: a red car with blue windows, black wheels and two yellow lights at the front.
    Red car
  • Ironed bead board: a pink bow with a purple border and two ribbons hanging down.
    Pink bow
  • Ironed bead board: an orange candy with eyes and pink cheeks, wrapped in purple paper at the sides.
    Candy with a face
  • Ironed bead board: a blue whale with a grey eye and a light blue spout of water above it.
    Blue whale
  • Four ironed bead hearts in blue, pink, purple and red, each with a white shine.
    Four hearts
  • Ironed bead board: a cupcake with pink frosting, blue and yellow sprinkles and a red berry on top.
    Cupcake
  • Ironed bead board: a tower of five rows in blue, green, yellow, orange and red, with brown beads between the rows.
    Rainbow tower
  • Ironed bead board: a blue bird with an orange beak sitting on brown ground between two green bushes.
    Blue bird
  • Ironed bead board: a black penguin with a white belly, white eyes, an orange beak and orange feet.
    Penguin
  • Ironed bead board: a lowercase letter a in turquoise beads.
    Letter a
  • Ironed bead board: four small apples, a pink one with a turquoise stem, an orange and yellow one with a green stem, a turquoise one with a cerise stem and a purple one with a yellow stem.
    Four apples
  • Ironed bead board: a red mug with happy eyes and a mouth, a yellow rim, white cream on top and a blue straw.
    Drink with a straw
  • Ironed bead board: a white skull with black eyes, nose and teeth and pink cheeks.
    White skull
  • Ironed bead board: a blue frog seen from above, with purple and white eyes, yellow feet and yellow spots on its back.
    Blue frog
  • Ironed bead board: a light blue robot with purple eyes, a purple belt and red feet.
    Robot
  • Ironed bead board: a black witch hat with a purple band and a beige buckle.
    Witch hat
  • Ironed bead board: a white surfboard with a red stripe and a blue edge standing in a light blue wave.
    Surfboard
  • Ironed bead board: a vampire with brown hair, a pink face, white fangs and a red cape.
    Vampire
  • Ironed bead board: a small green square with a patch of orange and red beads in the middle.
    Green frame
  • Ironed bead board: a purple skull with black eyes, nose and teeth and pink cheeks.
    Purple skull
  • Ironed bead board: a blue bow with a green border and two ribbons hanging down.
    Blue bow
  • Ironed bead board: a white ghost next to a grey gravestone with a black cross, on green grass.
    Ghost by a gravestone
Ironed bead board: a red car with blue windows, black wheels and two yellow lights at the front.
Red car

What you can count on

The pattern stays put while your child beads

Put the phone or tablet next to the pegboard. The child zooms in with two fingers and locks the board, so an elbow cannot move it. The screen stays on as long as the pattern is open.

  • One color at a time, so all the yellow beads show at once
  • A bead count per color, so you know if you have enough
  • Swap a color when there are no pink beads at home
  • Tap Done! when the board is finished and the pattern gets a star
  • Tiny mini patterns and whole giant squares, so there is something for both a four- and a seven-year-old
The Lion pattern open on a phone: an orange and yellow lion face on a square board, with buttons for zoom, lock, colors and a star at the bottom

Patterns for the cat and the duck too

Hundreds of patterns, from small, quick ones for the youngest to big designs on 30 × 30 pegs. Animals, dinosaurs, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, letters and numbers, food and much more. Browse all bead patterns.

Many are drawn for the shaped boards, not just the square. All the boards and their patterns.

Orange cat, bead pattern on the cat board

Questions from parents

Does Pearls cost anything?

20 patterns are always free. The whole library and drawing your own patterns are unlocked with a one-time purchase, Pearls Complete, with no subscription. You can buy it directly in the web version: SEK 29 until 30 November 2026, then SEK 69. In the iPhone and iPad app, the purchase is made in the App Store, behind a parental gate.

Do we need an account, and what is saved?

Not to use the app. Favorites and your own patterns are saved on the device, and your child never enters any details. Anyone who buys Pearls Complete on the web signs in with Apple or Google, so that the purchase follows them to other devices. More in the privacy policy and the terms of purchase.

Which pegboards do the patterns fit?

The square with 14 × 14 pegs, the large square with 30 × 30, the giant square with 60 × 60 made of four large boards, the hexagon, the circle, the cat board and the duck board. A pattern fits a board or it does not, and the app tells you which. The boards and how to count the pegs on yours.

Which beads do I need?

Ordinary fuse beads that you iron, the kind often called Perler or Hama beads. The app shows the pattern, and the beads and the board are the ones you have at home.

Can my child choose patterns alone?

Yes. The categories have pictures, so a child finds the cats or the cars without reading.

Does it work on a computer?

Yes. The web version works in the browser on a computer, a tablet or a phone. The app for iPhone and iPad is coming to the App Store.

Try it with the boards you have at home

Open the app in the browser, pick a board and start beading. No account needed.

Open in the browser