Do you know any fun magnet crafts?

Question

I am looking for crafts using magnets.

Answer 1

do you want to use magnets in the craft or make/decorate a fridge magnet?

Answer 2

My favorite magnet craft is MARBLE MAGNETS!!!

You find images that you love, whether faces, comic book characters, birds, flowers, jewels, words (whatever!) and glue them to the back of a flattened florist marble (sometimes called a page pebble - range in size from 3/4 " - 1 1/2 " ) using E-6000 or some other clear glue, THEN, when that is dry, you glue a little round magnet to the back, and VOILA! Your refrigerator is customizedly beautiful!

For a couple of bucks you can get about a pound of the glass marbles.  They are usually in the floral section.  At Target, they come in a plastic cylindrical container and at other places I've seen them in netted bags.  One problem I've found is that even though a store may carry them, they're sometimes out of the plain, clear ones so they'll only have colored or lustered ones. Plain is optically way better, but the colored kinds are kind of neat if you use them plain (without images).

Answer 3

You can make just about any polymer clay object or bead, etc., you can think of into a magnet as long as it's not too thin and sticking-out (TIP: don't use Sculpey, SuperSculpey, or Sculpey III though since those brands/lines of polymer clay are weak after baking in any thin areas).  

These can then be used as regular magnets, or you can make a game with them, or one person even had her students make clay "skateboarders" as magnets which she then used on a "incentive" board (a magnetic white-board) to measure their progress (...you can see her finished board, including a lesson, if you can view pdf pages--see link below).

You can read about all those things if you''re interested, on this page of my site:

http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_mate...

(...click on the MAGNETS category near the bottom of the list at the top of the page, then scroll down to the subcategory called

LESSONS, USES + PLACES TO USE MAGNETS)

P.S.  You can also use "sheet magnets" with polymer clay (there the polymer clay will probably be a decorative clay sheet which is glued to the magnet sheet)

HTH,

Diane B.