Project 4: Vintage Flower Magnets

Here’s another quick and easy project to do with magnets.

I’ve been holding onto a set of vintage flower pins trying to decide what I’d like to do with them. The pins are very beautiful and colorful, but they were too heavy to pin to a thin sweater and I don’t own the type of coat that they would look cute pinned to.

So, I decided that I would turn them into magnets and give them to some of my coworkers to dress up their offices (I work with a lot of women — don’t worry, I didn’t force flower magnets on the men.)

So, here are the three easy steps to creating magnets from old pins:

1. Remove the pin backing from the decorative flower:

This is the only tough part of the project. Some of the pins were more stubborn than others. I used pliers to bend the metal back and forth until it broke. On a second pin, I tried cutting through the metal, but the first way worked a little bit better — probably because my pliers aren’t that great.

2. Apply hot glue — if you have old pins, they are often made of metal. Be careful because the hot glue will quickly heat up the pin.