Easter Egg Frame Photo Magnets

Easter Craft Project
This simple Easter Egg magnetic frame is a great gift that the kids can make for grandparents, parents, aunt, and uncles during the Easter holiday.

They are a simple way to display all of those school pictures through the years. If you use the CD cases you already have in your home, the kids should be able to easily make these magnetic Easter Egg frames for less than $10 easily.

To Make These Simple Easter Egg Frame Magnets You Will Need:

Empty CD boxes
Scissors
Glue
Round magnets
Pictures
Ribbon
Felt or Foam Core board
Ruler
Black Magic Marker
Cardboard or card stock

Open your CD box and take out the paper inserts and the molded plastic piece into which the CD fits.

Use your tape measure or ruler to measure your CD case.

Now, draw this simple square out onto some pastel felt.

Fold the felt in half and cut an Easter egg shape out of the middle of the felt.

Take that Easter egg and cut it down to a smaller Easter egg size.

Now, glue the felt shape with the Easter egg cut out of it to the CD case on the front.

Take your small Easter egg and use puff paint, more felt, and fabric paint to decorate it.

Now, glue the small decorated egg on to the frame at and angle over one of the corners. It can over lap the opening a little.

Draw out the same CD box square onto the photo and Cut your photo to just smaller than the CD box. You will be fitting it into the back of the box with the hinged edge at the top, so about 4 inches wide and 4 ¾ inches high will be about right.

Fix the photo against the plastic with a few small pieces of sticky-tape. Find a nice piece of cardboard, card stock, gift wrap or foam board will help to fit the photo snugly behind the plastic and to the edges of the frame.

Now, use your hot glue gun to glue some of your magnets on the back the CD case. Epoxy glue would also work for this step.

Tips:

You can use artwork in place of a photo. Kids make tons of artwork at school, home, and church. You can simply open up the CD case magnetic a change out the photo for a more up to date picture or new artwork.

For a fun boarder you use some fun foam kids can draw on this with paint pens, markers, and ink!

Rubber pencil erasers also make a great border glued onto the back of the Easter egg frame of the CD case. Pencils can also be sharpened down to the right length and glued to the edge of the frame.

If your photos do not fit exactly into the frame you can take them to Kinko's and have them blown up or shrunk down to the right size. This step also allows you to cut the photos to the right size to fit the magnetic frame.