Creativity is meant to be shared! Here’s an easy craft that you can make for yourself or to give to your friends whether they live close by or far away. These magnets can used by themselves or to hold a picture-hanging wire. Use inside jokes, favorite characters, or shared experiences to make these crafts personal!
Related Book: Painting Pepette written by Linda Ravin Lodding | Illustrated by Claire Fletcher
For Magnets
Supplies
- To get you started, here are two printable Best Friends Templates! Template 1 Template 2
- Poster board
- Large, 1 ½-inch clear glass stones (decorative fillers), available in craft stores
- Markers or colored pencils OR find images online to print out
- Medium to large flexible magnets, available in craft stores
- Super glue
- Toothpicks
- Scissors
Directions
- Place the glass stone on the poster board and trace around it
- Draw your design in the circle on the poster board
- Cut out the circle
- With the toothpick, apply glue around the very edge of the design side of the circle
- Attach the circle to the flat side of the stone, let dry
- Trim the cardboard circle if needed
- Attach the magnet to the back of the cardboard with glue
For Map Picture Holder
Supplies
- Use a mapping program to find a map of your town and your friend’s town
- Poster board
- Large, 1 ½-inch clear glass stones (decorative fillers), available in craft stores
- Twine
- Super Glue
- Toothpicks
- Scissors
- Heavy duty mounting squares
Directions
- Find maps of your and your friend’s towns
- Zoom in so the name of your and your friend’s towns are displayed well. You will be using about a 1-inch area around the towns’ names.
- Take a screen shot of the maps
- Print the maps
- Place the glass stone on the map and trace around it
- Place the glass stone on the poster board and trace around it
- Cut out the circles on the map and poster board
- With the toothpick, glue the map to the poster board, let dry
- With the toothpick, apply glue around the very edge of the map side of the circle
- Attach the circle to the flat side of the glass stone, let dry
- Trim the cardboard circle if needed
- Repeat with the other map
- Attach a length of twine to the back of each glass stone
- Attach heavy duty mounting squares to the back of each glass stone
- Attach stones to the wall and hang pictures on the twine
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