The 31 Days of Love series continues. This series is a set of guest post throughout the month of January. Designed to share with you the diversity of the internet and blogging world all around the theme of LOVE! Great for Valentine’s Day.. but many DIYs are also wonderful at Christmas Time or Mother’s Day (we have brought many together in this Easy Heart Crafts round up). So far, we have brought you fabulous Valentines Cards and now we are looking at a great set of Valentines Gifts that kids can make. Today Amy from The Connection We Share shows us her adorable Salt Dough magnets, I think I would enjoy getting these for Mother’s Day too!
Hi Red Ted Art readers! I’m Amy and I’m a tea lover, chocolate eater and a kale chip maker. I blog over at The Connection We Share and share things that help us connect and bond with the people we love. Whether it be a doing a diy craft or baking yummy cookies or doing Kiwi Crate craft kits because we simply are too busy and tired to put together a diy craft, all these activities help us spend quality time with our children and be present with them.
All you parents who have other children are going to laugh at me when I say this but I’m actually REALLY excited about this Valentines Day. Why? Because it’s my daughter’s first year in preschool so it’s our first time giving out Valentine gifts!
The little girl has more than 25 friends at her school and we also have to make some for family so I have to pick a craft that we can mass produce that is also cost effective.
These little salt dough heart magnets are super easy to make and cost less than $3 for 30 magnets. Win!
We started off with this basic salt dough recipe and added a tablespoon of red glitter to make it sparkly. Since I love the colour and the naturalness of uncoloured salt dough, we left it uncoloured.
After the ball of dough is formed, we rolled it out to 0.5mm (3/16”) thickness and cut out a bunch of circles with cookie cutters.
Next we stamped some hearts onto the dough with an archival dye ink stamp pad.
After the hearts are stamped, you could either let them air dry (which will take a few days) or you could bake it in the oven at 100C for 3-4 hours. Either way, make sure to turn the hearts once in a while so they dry evenly on both sides.
When the circles are completely dry, glue on the magnets to the back and voila!
If you like this post, you might also like this Ooey Gooey Slime, or this Indoor Fishing Game.
Mammasaurus says
So very pretty – I love them x
Amy @ The Connection We Share says
Thank you so much for the feature!
Pinkoddy says
I really need to make salt dough – what a beautiful idea to stamp hearts into them.
Theres Just One Mommy says
Those are a beautiful gift! Simple and adorable!
Urmila says
Where do you get the magnets? Thanks, this is a fun craft.
Alicia says
I found them at Michael’s crafts
Alicia says
What kind of glue did you use?
Christie says
Did you use a rubber stamp?
Crystal @HelloCreativeFamily says
What a beautiful little project. I stumbled upon it, and fell head over heals in love with it, then realized it was made by Amy, who I’ve met in real life. 🙂 It made me love it even more.
I did a roundup of Handmade Candy Free Valentine Ideas Kids Will Love and included your project in it! I’d love for you to take a peek and share if you think it’s a fit for your audience. 🙂
http://hellocreativefamily.com/candy-free-handmade-valentine-ideas-kids-will-love/
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Crystal
Red Ted Art says
Awww Amy really is lovely!!! 🙂 and thank you for including it in your round up!
Serenity says
Hello,
I’d like to make these adorable magnets! The link for the stamper isn’t working. Can you please provide another link because I’d like to make this exactly like yours. Also, what kind of glue did you use? I’m not crafty so I need specifics please!
Thanks in advance!
Red Ted Art says
Ah it was this ink pad http://amzn.to/2BiZx2E – I am not sure I had information for the stamper itself (it is a guest post). I hope that helps!
Serenity says
Yes, thank you! I think I might even try my children’s finger prints to create a heart on each circle. I’d have to find a washable ink pad for that though.
What type of glue should I use? Super glue?
Thanks again!
Red Ted Art says
A hot glue gun should do the trick.. but my favourite glue at the moment is something called Gem Tac – it is a super strong PVA (or white) glue!! Enjoy.
Serenity says
Thanks again!