During the height of the pandemic, I stocked up on craft material in order to stay busy until it was safe to get out into the world again.

Now, I'm slowly digging into my reserves and experimenting with fun crafting projects.

And I just happened to have magnets on hand (I cannot for the life of me remember how they ended up in my kitchen drawer), so I figured I'd use up some of my oven bake clay to make fun geometric clay fridge magnets.

Material

• White Oven-Bake Clay

• Rolling pin with thickness rings

• Exacto knife

• Self-healing cutting mat

• Magnets

• Glue

• Wooden palette

• Paint

• Paintbrushes

Instructions

I don't really think a tutorial is needed for this kind of project. I grab a bit of clay, warm it up in my hands and form a ball.

Then I roll it into a slab of a consistent thickness thanks to my nifty rolling pin and cut out shapes with my exacto knife, making sure I cut out a circle the circumference of my magnet in the back of the piece so the magnet wouldn't stick out too much (my magnets happened to be pretty thick).

I then smooth out the edges with my fingers, transfer the shapes to a baking sheet and bake them according to the instructions on the clay packaging.

Then I mix paint colors, make many mistakes and eventually settle on pretty primary colors, a safer bet!

I honestly didn't think that all of my pieces would end up being magnets (especially the spoon), but in the end, I'm pretty happy with the result and can see myself experimenting more in the future, maybe until I'm good enough and can switch to pottery clay and am able to use food-safe material?