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Valentine’s Gifts: Fridge Magnets

January 22, 2021

Hooray, it is time for some gorgeous Kids’ Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas! As part of our 31 Days of Love Guest Post series, we have these adorable Valentine’s Gifts Fridge Magnets made from Salt Dough! Salt Dough is a fantastic material for children to work with – inexpensive and versatile and there are so many Salt Dough Ideas you can make!

Adorable Heart Fridge Magnets. These cute little heart fridge magnets are made from salt dough and a great inexpensive make. Salt dough is so wonderfully versatile and there are many great pretty gift ideas you can make from it. These hearts would be great as a Valentine's Day Gift, Christmas Gift or Mother's Day Idea
First shared in January 2014

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!

Making Valentine’s Day Gifts with Kids

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, 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!

Gifts Kids Can Make - Salt dough hearts

To make these Salt Dough Fridge Magents you will need:

  • plain flour
  • salt
  • water
  • magnets & glue
  • paint or ink or stamps
  • cookie cutters
  • eco friendly glitter (optional)

Your best free Salt Dough Recipe!

How to make Salt Dough Fridge Magnets for Valentine’s Day

We started off with this basic salt dough recipe  and added a tablespoon of red eco friendly 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!

Aren’t they the cutest? I hope you enjoyed this wonderful guest post!

More gorgeous Valentine’s Day Crafts and Gifts Kids can make here:

Kids Valentine's Day Ideas

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Filed Under: Gifts That Kids Can Make, Mothers Day, Valentines 21 Comments

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  1. Mammasaurus says

    January 10, 2014 at 12:12 am

    So very pretty – I love them x

    Reply
  2. Amy @ The Connection We Share says

    January 10, 2014 at 4:32 am

    Thank you so much for the feature!

    Reply
  3. Pinkoddy says

    January 10, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    I really need to make salt dough – what a beautiful idea to stamp hearts into them.

    Reply
  4. Theres Just One Mommy says

    January 12, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    Those are a beautiful gift! Simple and adorable!

    Reply
  5. Urmila says

    December 4, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    Where do you get the magnets? Thanks, this is a fun craft.

    Reply
    • Alicia says

      December 20, 2014 at 4:29 pm

      I found them at Michael’s crafts

      Reply
  6. Alicia says

    December 20, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    What kind of glue did you use?

    Reply
  7. Christie says

    February 13, 2015 at 11:54 am

    Did you use a rubber stamp?

    Reply
  8. Crystal @HelloCreativeFamily says

    January 25, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      January 26, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Awww Amy really is lovely!!! 🙂 and thank you for including it in your round up!

      Reply
  9. Serenity says

    January 21, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    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!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      January 22, 2018 at 10:07 am

      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!

      Reply
      • Serenity says

        January 22, 2018 at 6:39 pm

        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!

        Reply
        • Red Ted Art says

          January 22, 2018 at 10:11 pm

          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.

          Reply
          • Serenity says

            January 25, 2018 at 2:06 pm

            Thanks again!

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