This homemade Christmas gift idea is fun, uncomplicated, and quick to create. Art magnets make a perfect handmade Christmas souvenir for family and friends.

Each 1 contains a miniature art masterpiece making them a very personal gift. And the best part of all?   They not only wait beautiful, but they're also functional.  Kids Activities Blog loves multi-purpose gifts!

homemade Christmas gift

Bootleg Christmas Gifts

We every bit a guild get focused on the holiday shopping flavor and buying as many gifts as we tin with the flashing lights and screens. While nothing is incorrect with that we tend to lose sight of what is of import during the Christmas season.

Plus at that place is something so wholesome and intimate about gifts that people take fourth dimension to create. From nascency salt dough ornaments, gifts in a jar, to Christmas souvenir bowls, and everything in between, all of these mean more to me because someone put their heart and time into them.

Supplies You lot Will Need:

  • Recycled bottle tops. You could also utilise plastic bottle lids. (See note below)
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • A thin paintbrush
  • Adhesive magnetic strip or pocket-size magnet pieces
  • Glitter
  • Newspaper, pencils, permanent markers etc for kids to create some artwork. Alternatively you could recycle some of your children'due south existing artwork.
  • Sequins and other embellishments (optional)

NOTE: If y'all don't take any recycled bottle tops, they can exist purchased from craft and hardware stores.

How To Create Beautiful Fine art Magnets For Bootleg Christmas Presents

Begin by making some colorful artwork. These drawings will be cut downwardly to size to fit inside the bottle tops, and then at that place are two ways to become about making the artwork. Your kids tin can add together patterns and color all over the page and then pocket-sized sections can exist cut downwards to size. Alternatively you lot could draw circles on the folio in a size to friction match the bottle tops, and then take the kids draw tiny pictures inside the circles.

Next, cut the artwork down to size, to fit inside the bottle tops. To do this, I placed a bottle top onto the artwork, drew around the edge so that I had an outline to work with, and so cutting a circle slightly smaller than the 1 I had drawn. There's no need to be perfectly accurate with the cutting. Whatsoever gaps will be covered later on with glitter.

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Giving Your Homemade Christmas Gifts Some Flair

Utilize the mucilage to attach the circles of artwork to the inside of the canteen tops. At this indicate you lot can employ sequins or other decorative embellishments to the pictures.

Next, apply gum to the outside border of the bottle tops equally shown in the picture higher up. It helps to use a small-scale paintbrush to apply the gum.

miniature art

At present comes my favorite part. The glitter! I only love looking at the picture in a higher place with all of that sparkling colour.

Sprinkle glitter over the bottle tops, shake off the backlog and admire how beautiful they expect. We did this stride over a paper plate which helped to contain the mess and clean up was a breeze because I simply picked up the plate and tossed it away when nosotros had finished.

magnet art

In one case the glue and glitter are set, turn the bottle tops over and apply a magnet.

We used a roll of adhesive magnetic strip which nosotros cutting down to size and then practical to each bottle top. You could also use a very small magnet, applied with glue.

Minor magnets for this type of project, as well as rolls of magnetic strip are available from arts and crafts stores.

These look so beautiful on our refrigerator door. They brand me happy every time I look at them. Each 1 has a little story attached to information technology every bit my iv year old told me what he was creating with each flick.

He told me that the magnet on the top left of this film with the gilt glitter is a picture show of pirate'southward treasure. The bluish and yellow ane that you tin just see on the lower right corner of this picture is the ocean and the sun – and it's snowing!

I love these sparkly magnets and the miniature artworks they contain so much that I'm not sure I can give these away. Nosotros will take to make another batch to requite as homemade Christmas gifts.

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