How to Make a Magnetic Paper Holder With Clothespins

Video Transcript

"My name is Courtney Hester on behalf of Expert Village and in this clip we're going to be making a magnet for the fridge to hold all of your child's papers. We're going to start by taking five jumbo craft sticks. You're going to lay two of them end to end and we're going to put down some glue and we're going to attach the other three on top. Then you'll want to take and paint this any color that you choose and let it dry. We've painted our and let it dry and the next thing that you need to do is take three spring loaded clothespins like this one and paint them as well. Okay, here are my three clothespins, we're going to glue these onto our craft stick base. We're going to separate them so that there is enough room for the papers that hang from each. Once we let the glue set just a minute, we're going to add some decorations. I have some foam decorations with some sticky backs, so we're going to pull the backing off and then stick these onto the handle. I have some smaller pieces we're going to do the same thing for further decoration. So now we've finished decorating our paper holder and we need to add a magnet to the back. You can buy magnet strips like this at the store and they usually have a sticky adhesive on the back. So you just pull off the striping and once we've done that, we just place it right down on our sticks. Since this is so big you might want to add one or two more strips. Now that we've completed our magnet, we're going to add it to the fridge and hang our paper from it."