Craft Saturday:How to Make Pretty Magnets

 

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This is a lovely activity to do with children or friends. Make little sets of magnets as gifts. You can make magnets to be coordinated with your room. Use magnets when learning foreign languages and make words into magnets or make message magnets. They are a lot of fun.

To make magnets you will need:

• pens, paint or paper to decorate the magnets
• A brush for your paint and glue
• Scissors
• chipboard pieces. You can buy them pre-cut into various shapers or cut out your own from a sheet
• Magnetic self-adhesive Sheet (if you can’t find self-adhesive, use glue instead)
• Gesso
• Decoupage glue (Mod Podge is ideal)

Step 1

Cut out shapes for your magnets out of chipboard.

Place  your chipboard cut-out magnet shapes onto the back of the magnetic sheet and draw around the shape. Cut the magnetic sheet slightly smaller than your outline.

Step 2

Draw around your chipboard shapes again this time on your favourite papers and cut the paper slightly bigger than the chipboard shape. This is so that you can cover the whole surface of the chipboard and curl over the edges.

Step 3

Cover one side of each chipboard shape and the sides, with gesso.

Step 4

Carefully place your paper on top and smooth over and around the edges. Bend the edges around and glue them on the back of the chipboard.

Step 5

Paint on top with decoupage glue to protect the surface and smooth out the bubbles.

Step 6

Stick on the magnet to the back of the chipboard. Trim with scissors if any of the magnet is visible from the front side.

Step 7

Admire your finished magnets

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