Magnets

Because I made this sweet Magnet board, I felt compelled to make awesome homemade magnets to go with it.  This was very easy and turned out cute and the kids enjoy them.

Materials:

• Sticky back magnetic buttons or magnetic sheets you can cut into the proper sizes
• Any random buttons, googly eyes, jewels or other trinkets to make into magnets
• Superglue (optional)

Magnetic buttons, jewels, and superglue

Close up on some of the different magnets we made

These take no time at all to make, and you can get really creative with what you turn into magnets.  We used some big buttons, plastic jewels, and googly eyes, all of which I had already in my craft box.  Each of which you can buy at a craft store for a few dollars for a package with dozens of trinkets.  The magnet buttons are about $3 for a package of 18.  Or you can buy the strips of magnetic tape and use superglue to stick your trinkets onto it.  We ended up with about 50 magnets for about $10.

All you do is stick your trinkets onto the magnetic buttons, and you have unique, cute magnets to stick on your magnet board or fridge!

Emma plays with her magnets and board

I also bought a little magnetic tray from Target for $3 to store all the kids magnets.  And there are magnetic numbers and letters that I bought from the dollar store as well, which is always a good investment (each pack was $1 for 26 magnets).

All in all, we have some really cute accessories for our magnet boards!

Magnet board with all of our different magnets and accessories.