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Magnetic Christmas Decorations
It’s 8am on Christmas Eve and we’ve brought our two little helpers into the unit this morning in preparation for shutting after the post is collected. They’re a little bored so we’ve come up with a plan using some old Christmas decorations and some magnets! We’ve used: Cheap plastic baubles Wired ribbon Self Adhesive flexible magnetic strip Self Adhesive 10x1mm … Continue reading
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Magnetic Christmas Decorations
It’s 8am on Christmas Eve and we’ve brought our two little helpers into the unit this morning in preparation for shutting after the post is collected. They’re a little bored so we’ve come up with a plan using some old Christmas decorations and some magnets! We’ve used: Cheap plastic baubles Wired ribbon Self Adhesive flexible magnetic strip Self Adhesive 10x1mm … Continue reading
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Magnetic reward charts for kids
Behaviour reward charts are a fantastic parenting tool but they often need to be reinforced over and over before the child routinely follows your rules. There are loads of charts available to download and print, but these are all single use and only last for one week. What if you want to be able to re-use them? This is a … Continue reading
Tags: behaviour, children, flexible magnetic strip, fridge magnets, magnets, project, reward chart, school holidays
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Magnetic pram corsages and charms
We receive a lot of enquiries about which magnets are needed to make pram flowers, pram corsages and pram charms. We thought it about time we put together a blog article about it. We’ve hunted for a tutorial specifically for making pram corsages or flowers but if they’re available, we couldn’t find them. What we did find was hundreds of … Continue reading
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Coin Sizes
Yes, we know it’s a bit odd that a magnet company should be talking about the size of coins, however, we often get asked for magnets “about the size of a £1.00 coin”. We also use a 50 pence coin in a lot of our photographs for scale purposes, so it seemed a good idea to measure a selection of … Continue reading
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Washi tape magnets – so quick, so easy, so pretty!
While we were making the washi tape peg magnets, we had a bit of a brain wave! We sell 1/2″, 1″ and 2″ wide self adhesive flexible magnetic strip by the metre and it’s great for holding things on our warehouse racking, but it’s a bit boring and brown to look at … not anymore! 20 minutes of playing around and … Continue reading
Tags: Christmas, craft, flexible magnetic strip, fridge, fridge magnets, magnets, Pinterest, school holiday activities, washi tape
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Washi Peg fridge magnets tutorial
We’ve discovered Washi Tape and it’s beautiful! After some discussion, we decided to use it to make pretty peg fridge magnets using some wooden pegs and some neodymium magnets. The first job was to measure the width of the pegs which turned out to be just over 9mm so we used 9x1mm neodymium disk magnets for this project. You will … Continue reading
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Hama Bead / Perler Bead fridge magnets tutorial
We’ve showcased a lot of fridge magnet ideas on Pinterest, but now it’s tutorial time! Our youngest assistant (6) has made three hama bead designs while on school holidays. These have been ironed to weld them together and removed from the peg boards. We are now ready to start turning them fridge magnets. We have decided to use some … Continue reading
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Different Coatings
Neodymium magnets are usually coated to protect them from rusting. This is because they are made from a sintered powder containing Neodymium, Iron, Boron and small quantities of other rare earth elements. The coatings can change the appearance of the magnet drastically, but it doesn’t change the magnets properties in any other way. This photo shows a Nickel-Copper-Nickel plated … Continue reading
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Loom Bands and Fridge Magnets
Loom bands seem to be the latest thing and we wondered if they could be made into fridge magnets. Happily, the answer is yes! We used a youtube tutorial to make Ladybirds (Ladybugs) DoodleDrawArt – How to make a Ladybug Charm youtube tutorial. Once they are removed from the loom, the ladybird is flat and the spots are hidden inside. … Continue reading
