So this is what E and I were up to last week. Before Christmas we painted five or six coats of magnetic paint on this wall, and then spent the rest of the month working on magnets into the night. On Christmas morning E opened about 700 magnets made by her dad – words that he typed in and cut out (so as to make slightly larger than those word sets you see for refrigerators), photos of all her classmates that he scanned in and printed out on laser magnetic paper, scenes and objects from some of her favorite books.
Creatures from birthday parties past…
Big buildings and little vehicles…
Then he searched on the Internet for famous athletes and people, imported them into Photoshop and scaled them pretty closely to match the heads – some exaggeration, of course, being a good thing. E as Mia Hamm,
and Danica Patrick, racing away in a smart car,
and her buddy E channelling Michael Jackson.
Or she and her buddies can skip the magnetic bodies entirely and become hand holding monsters and aliens.
We spent a couple of hours one night going through the big box that held all the cards she had ever received – I’m not sure why I saved them. I think I just thought that one day she might put them to good use. So we did. We sorted through them all, took out the ones with large simple pictures and characters and recycled the rest. We cut them out,
and put magnetic tape on the back.
Now she and her friends can get together and celebrate a birthday, complete with oversize cake and a gigantic weiner dog.
Heard last night as she played and played – “Mom, this is so beyond cool, this is totally awesome.”
Newly cleaned off art display across the hall, waiting for some updates later this week.
Some art (some fab printmaking) worthy of frames is now up,
and that city I showed you the other day? Oh yeah – terrible case of the blizzards…
Creatures from birthday parties past…
Big buildings and little vehicles…
Then he searched on the Internet for famous athletes and people, imported them into Photoshop and scaled them pretty closely to match the heads – some exaggeration, of course, being a good thing. E as Mia Hamm,
and Danica Patrick, racing away in a smart car,
and her buddy E channelling Michael Jackson.
Or she and her buddies can skip the magnetic bodies entirely and become hand holding monsters and aliens.
We spent a couple of hours one night going through the big box that held all the cards she had ever received – I’m not sure why I saved them. I think I just thought that one day she might put them to good use. So we did. We sorted through them all, took out the ones with large simple pictures and characters and recycled the rest. We cut them out,
and put magnetic tape on the back.
Now she and her friends can get together and celebrate a birthday, complete with oversize cake and a gigantic weiner dog.
Heard last night as she played and played – “Mom, this is so beyond cool, this is totally awesome.”
Newly cleaned off art display across the hall, waiting for some updates later this week.
Some art (some fab printmaking) worthy of frames is now up,
and that city I showed you the other day? Oh yeah – terrible case of the blizzards…
I love the little magnetic sentence that says “I want Ted Drews!” 🙂 Girl after my own heart!! What a fantastic gift!
This is almost exactly when I’m planning on doing in my kids’ playroom! It looks fantastic! What kind of paint did you use?
We first used many, many coats of magnetic paint – if I remember correctly you put on thin, even coats to build up the sticking strength, and then the top coat was just a standard black chalkboard paint. The top part was the same wall paint that we had on the other hall walls.