How to Make Marble Magnet Projects At Home

Making marble magnets can be a fun project for the whole family or an individual. Kids can help and they love making them! These are made with the clear glass oval shaped pieces you find around florist shops, with tiny pictures glued to the bottom. When they are completed, those little images are magnified and really look amazing.

Materials Needed:

• 1/2" or 3/4" round strong magnets or cabochons
• 1/2" or 3/4" clear flat glass marbles
• Silicon sealer made by Crazy Glue OR Jewel It glue brands
• Scissors or appropriate sized hole punch
• White card stock paper
• Tiny photos
• Toothpicks

First assembly the tiny photos you want to make magnets out of. It could be photos you’ve taken, in magazines or comics to name a few examples. Remember, they will need to fit within your glass marbles or cabochons size that you purchased. Other resources to find tiny photos (you can get them inexpensively on every topic imaginable) are as follows:

• Big Stock Photos
• 123RF
• Shutterstock
• Dreamstime
• Canstock

It’s possible that you may need to resize them even smaller on your computer to get it to fit the dimensions you need, but that’s a simple fix in any photo editor software.

Use the glass marble or cabochon as a guide, and place over your photo, center your photo as you desire, then gently trace an outline of the glass marble to the photo. Cut out with either scissors or if you have a hole punch the size needed, that would make for very clean lines and be a huge time saver. Do your best to get nice, clean lines.

Now take your magnet and trace on some white cardstock around the magnet and cut out, or use a hole punch if you have the appropriate size.

Using a small amount of either the silicone glue (made by Crazy Glue), or Jewel It, smear with a toothpick on the magnet and glue the white cardstock to the magnet. This step helps to not have the magnet showing through your finished project and helps to create a clean, finished look.

Now, using the same step above, glue your photo (facing up towards you), to the white cardstock/magnet piece, doing your best to align the edges. Allow this to dry and set up an hour or so.

Last and best step, add a dollop of glue (about the size of a small pea or so), onto the center of your photo. Lower the glass marble or cabochon straight down on top of the photo and press in the center, gently. You will see the glue spreading out, creating a nice seamless bubble. Any ripples should disappear on their own as the glue dries.

These are wonderful gifts, and décor items for your refrigerator. Six of them fit nicely in an Altoid type tin that can be wrapped or decorated as well, for a complete customized look. These can also be used as components for making a themed handmade photo frame.