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TYPE: Saint Patrick's Day Crafts
Rainbow Magnet
Date Submitted: October 28, 2006
Find the gold at the end of the rainbow with this fun magnet project made with foam or felt. 
Materials:
- 6 x 4 ½ - inch wooden oval frame
- Green fun foam or felt
- ¾ - inch tall candle cup
- 1 pkg. gold seed beads
- 1 yard 1/8 – inch green ribbon
- 2 inch strip of magnet
- 9 mm pony beads…(16 red, 16 yellow, 16 green, 8 orange, 8 blue)
- Acrylic paints…(Red, Yellow, Green, Orange, Purple, Blue, Black)
- Paint brush
- Sand paper
- Saw
- Drill
- Glue gun
Rainbow
Using a saw cut oval in half to form two rainbow shapes. You can make two magnets if you have double the other materials. Sand rainbow shape to smooth cut edge. Drill 4 small holes evenly spaced in each end of the rainbow. Paint rainbow as shown in photo. Be sure to paint the edges around the rainbow.
Cut 8 - 4 ½ - inch lengths of green ribbon. Knot a green bead at one end of each ribbon. String the remaining beads on ribbon as shown in photo. Thread beaded ribbon through a hole in the end of the rainbow. Glue the end of the ribbon to the back. Trim excess ribbon on back. Repeat with remaining beaded ribbons. Pot of gold
Paint candle cup black. Let dry. Glue gold seed beads all over top of candle cup to look like gold. Glue pot of gold to right side of rainbow. Clover
Cut a clover from fun foam or felt. Glue to left side of rainbow. Finishing
Glue magnet to back of rainbow.
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