Making a Display

One of my friends and I were having a discussion several weeks back. We were trying to come up with the best idea for displaying the things that our children make without having those paintings and crafts overtake the whole house. Below you will find the step by step on how to make a magnetic board. It is simple and anyone can do it! The best part is you can make them in so many ways and for so many different purposes! The one I made below is very simple because I expect it to be totally covered up!!!
Materials:

• MAGNETIC white board (you can get these anywhere in any shape and size. Ebay is great for this too)
• STRONG magnets - I got mine pretty cheap on ebay otherwise try a hardware store. They need to be really strong to go through the art project and a piece of material
• ribbon for a boarder and to hang
• a large piece of material
• something to use for your magnet covers such as buttons
• glue gun

Let's Begin!

Iron your background material and lay it upside down on your surface. Place the magnetic board upside down on top of the material.

With a glue gun, glue the material on the edges so it is tightly fixed onto the white board.

Turn it over

(picture wont rotate) This shows the board now covered with the main material. Now you want to get the ribbon that you chose for the boarder. Because my brown ribbon with cars and trucks on it was so thin, I decided to use a thick white ribbon behind it to make a wider border. It is up to your taste on how you want to do this. Glue guns work really well but you are going to want to test a piece first because some ribbon shows glue through it.

Glue the ribbon around each side of the board. Be sure to pull it tight so it does not gap.

After the boarder is completed, decide how you want to hang the board. When I covered the board with the fabric, I covered the hardward for hanging so I had to cut out holes in the fabric. I used a solid brown ribbon and tied it to both pieces of hardward for the board to hang from.

If I had made this for a little girl, I would have used a lot more bows and ribbon. You could put bows with the ribbon on each side at the top. It would be too cute! :)

Again, I don't know why this won't stay rotated. Sorry! Anyways, above shows the final product.

Don't forget to come up with a cute idea for your magnets! I looked high and low for cute truck buttons to match the ribbon but I never found any. I decided to cut a up a piece of ribbon that had trucks, boats, planes etc. I glued one of each onto white ribbon to match the boarder then glued it on the magnet.

Have fun getting creative! :)