Activity Overview
Create spectacular glass bauble magnets depicting your very own photographs or favorite design patterns or characters. These pretty magnets will add a touch of class to your refrigerator, they make fabulous homemade gifts and are fun and easy to make!
The possibilities are endless for the designs that you can use. Peruse magazines, try using designed scrapbook paper, or even draw your own for the exciting personalized backdrop for these fun magnets. You can also create a letter of the alphabet or numbers for each one and use them as learning magnets!
Materials Needed
- Glass an Bead Glue
- Cut out pictures
- Round small magnets
- Flat glass marbles
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Glue gun
How to Make Them
- Place your flat glass marble over an image from a magazine or a photograph.
- Use a pencil to outline it
- Cut out your desired image with your scissors.
- Glue along the edges of your image to the flat side of the marble, facing up.
- Press down on the image to evenly distribute the glue.
- Allow to dry overnight.
- Glue a small magnet to the back of your photo bead with your glue gun.
