Last Updated on January 29, 2014 by Babita
Last year my brother got two wooden beaded necklaces from Indonesia. Now I am not a necklace person so I left it on my dresser and forgot about it. Last Friday I had this idea to make some magnets with fabric scraps and was looking for something to use as a base. I remembered I had these necklaces and decided to use the largest wooden beads as the base for the magnets. Check out my project and be honest and let me know what you think of the fabric wooden bead refrigerator magnets.
The first thing is I did was cut off the largest wooden beads. They were around 1 3/4″ in diameter, and I felt like it was good enough size for the magnets. I cut out six of those beads.
The next thing I did was cut out different fabric circles from the scraps I already had from my previous projects. I did not exactly measure but the fabric circles were approx. 2 1/2″ in diameter.
I took the one of the fabric circles and placed the wooden bead on the wrong side of the fabric. I applied some industrial strength glue directly on the wooden bead. Slowly I folded the fabric over the bead. This part was a tricky and required some serious manipulation. But I did it.
I wanted the the back of the fabric covered beads, to look all neat and nice. So I cut out some 1″ red felt circles to cover them.
I glued one felt circle to cover the back of bead and I was able to make it all pretty and nice on the back.
I followed the same steps with rest of the five. I allowed about 20-25 minutes for the glue to set in. Finally I cut out some strips of Peel and Stick Magnetic Strips. The glue on these magnetic strips was not strong enough to hold on to the fabric so I added an additional layer of glue and attached it to the back of the beads. I weighted it down with some heavy books.
That is it. It is a very simple and easy project. I used everything I had around the house to make them. I did not have to buy anything specifically for this project.
My daughters loved it, and “TEE” wanted me to make some more for her so that she can use it in her school locker.
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Love how you recycled an old necklace into something useful and pretty, great stuff
What a lovely creative idea! It really looks pretty & people can personalise to their tastes too. Becki – Coping with the Big C – The Sits Comment Love Challenge
What a simple, cute idea! Love that you repurposed those beads too!
I love how you recycle the beads into something new!
So cute and so easy! This would be a great project for kids.
Oh, these are so cute! And easy too!
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those are awesome! I am not very crafty – it would never occur to me to take apart a necklace to make those (and you did a great job getting the fabric on the backs to look nice!)
So cute!
Love these, always need fridge magnets, grandma/granddaughter project!
You did a great job on those refrigerator magnets.
Nice n very creative Babs. It looks neat n colorful.
These are so fabulous! I have magnets that fall off after a while and then we have to get new ones I should try and make some like these. Great idea 🙂
Elizabeth
Those came out so cute! Love how easy they are to make too, everyone has spare buttons and fabric laying around!
I love those! My refrigerator has ugly magnets and I would so love to make these ones to make them look so much better. Thanks for sharing.
very cool and kids would lvoe to make these as they can style them to their taste
I love these what a great idea i have lots of different magnets mainly ones we have gotten free out of mail or from different places we have been but i would love some cute ones like this.
Those are really cute. Just think of the possibilities that you could do with holiday themes. Especially with Valentines Day coming up.
Cute idea for fridge magnets. Very creative and you were able to use things you already owned
Those are so cute. I so admire people like you who are very crafty.
What a super fun pop of color those provide. Easy to make too!
These magnets are so nice and so creative. I actually collect magnets from all over the world and would love to add these to my collection.
I loved the necklaces as they were, but I also love those fabric covered magnets! They look so awesome on your fridge!
Very cool idea! I’m not a necklace wearer either, unless it’s a very, very light necklace – and then I’m afraid one of the kids will break it, so I don’t usually wear it even then. 😛
I would love to use those for the dry erase board in my office. What a clever way to make it a little more homey in there.
My nieces have been making animal fridge magnets. so creative of them just like these are. I’ll have to share this post so they can get some inspiration from it.
What a neat idea – I love how simple they seem to be to make as well yet you would think they took a while! x
I love them! Very cool. I may make some of these myself this weekend. Really easy to make
This is such a creative idea – I should really keep things and use it for DIY purposes!
I have tons of buttons, but I never thought to use them this way. Very cute!
Super cute!!! And a great way of repurposing, too!
I love the look of the magnets so creative. They are very cute and girly looking.
Those are so cute and simple to make. It looks much nicer than having many magnets that don’t match all over the fridge.
Those are really decorative and cute. I could totally see them on my refridgerator.
Great re use of an item that was essentially going to waste. I have lots of magnets on my refrig but not made my me. These are really cute and very decorative.
I love the look of the magnets so creative
Those are cute. A great way to use the small scraps of fabric! I hate throwing anything away.
Well that sure does brighten up your refrigerator. You made those all by yourself? That was a great idea to redo the beads you wouldn’t wear into something useful and very pretty.
Those are too cute. My magnets are all a mish mosh of ones I’ve picked up over the year. I like the idea of having a matching set like this.