Crafting With Mema – Making Mosaic Magnets

We’ve started a new Monday series here at NanaHood, called “Crafting With Mema“.  These posts will include patterns, recipes, and fun craft projects to do with your kids or grandkids.  The ideas won’t be difficult (if anything, we’ll err on the side of SUPER EASY), and we hope we’ll inspire YOU to do more crafting!

It’s time for this week’s “Crafting With Mema” post.  This week, the kids and Mema will be making paper mosaic magnets to hang on the fridge!

A little “video” disclaimer – when filming for these posts, we quickly discovered that taking short breaks during the segments worked best for everyone.  However, that means that each craft project ended up with two or three videos. By NEXT week, I’m hoping to figure out how to “connect” the segments into one video for each post, but for THIS week, I’m just going to post the three segments below.  OK?  Good!  Here we go…

If you want to try this at home (and we hope you will), you’ll need:

• black construction paper
• various colored construction paper
• glue sticks
• magnets (preferably with pre-stick on the back to make it super simple)

Now, Mema actually pre-cut all the various colored pieces into triangles, but if you have older or ambitious kids, you could let them cut the triangles (or other shapes) themselves.

These are really simple little mosaics, but they look great on the fridge!

And by the way, if you and your children/grandchildren create something from one of our Crafting posts, we’d LOVE to see photos (or videos).  Along those same lines, we are also interested in posting YOUR video or photo tutorials, so if you have crafty kiddos and want to share, please send an email to ad***@na******.com.

About “Mema”: Cheryl Booth has been crafting for more years than she cares to remember, and has shared her love of crafts with kids in her home, in Bible classes, at summer camp, and elsewhere.  You can visit Cheryl’s craft shop online at http://www.mycraftbooth.etsy.com