Handmade toys with magnets! A collection of fun, playable ideas
Here are some fun, handmade toy ideas that use magnets! There are plenty of ideas that both adults and kids can enjoy casually.
Try making them with everyday materials, adjusting the design to suit your child’s age.
As you experience the mysterious power of magnets together, help draw out your children’s creativity.
You’ll create memories filled with smiles for both kids and adults, along with the time you spend making them.
Why not have a great time by getting excited together, playing with the toys you made, and coming up with creative ways to play?
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Handmade Magnet Toys! A Collection of Fun, Playable Ideas (21–30)
A butterfly and dandelions in flight
A butterfly flies in and sticks to a dandelion! It’s a craft project using magnets to make a dandelion and a butterfly.
Attach a magnet and kite string to the center of butterfly-shaped origami, then fold the butterfly so it sandwiches the string and secure it with tape.
Take a sheet of origami cut in half, fold it in half again, and make slits at 1 cm intervals.
Roll it to fit around a small round magnet and spread open the slit sections to form the dandelion.
Apply glue to the magnet to fix it onto a backing sheet, then use the kite string to guide the butterfly and make it stick to the dandelion as you play!
Magnet Car Race
This is a craft project that uses the properties of magnets: like poles repel each other, while opposite poles or iron attract each other.
Attach wheels to a paper cup and place a magnet at the back.
Then bring close a rod fitted with a magnet oriented to repel, and use it to make the car move.
Pay attention to the orientation and strength of the magnet on the car body, as well as the shape of the rod and how you bring it close, to aim for smoother motion.
It also sounds fun to try variations, such as attaching magnets to the wheels or using multiple rods to see what happens.
Handmade magnet toys! A collection of fun, playable ideas (31–40)
ice cream
Here’s an idea for a toy that lets you play ice cream shop! You can make it using felt, magnets, cardboard, and stuffing.
Basically, you stuff cotton into felt cut into circles or half-circles to create the ice cream scoops and cones.
A sticker-type magnet attached to cardboard is placed in the flat part of the cone and the bottom of the ice cream, so when you put the ice cream on the cone, it sticks and won’t fall off easily.
Make different kinds of ice cream by changing the felt colors and toppings!
Fishing game
How about a fishing game? Make lots of fish out of origami and attach a paper clip to the mouth of each one.
For the fishing rod, tie a string to an easy-to-hold stick and attach a magnet to the end.
Lay out a vinyl sheet to represent water, place the fish on it, and catch them so the magnet snaps onto the clips.
It would be fun for everyone to make the fish together and draw illustrations or patterns on them.
Let’s also try making colorful, original fishing rods!
Magnet Tangram
A tangram is a puzzle where you combine cut pieces to form shapes.
Let’s make a puzzle that’s also used as a toy to train children’s creativity and thinking skills.
First, prepare an illustration with tangram patterns and a magnetic sheet.
Next, trace the lines within the frame onto the magnetic sheet so they line up, then cut out each shape.
Once you place the magnetic sheet pieces into the template, you’re ready to go.
It’s a toy where you aim to complete the illustration by combining the pieces.
Dress-up magnets
This is a toy made with dress-up stickers and magnetic sheets.
First, cut the base dress-up piece to fit the magnetic sheet.
Next, cut out the clothes, shoes, and decorations for dressing up.
After that, combine them however you like to create dress-up magnets.
Because they can be attached and removed repeatedly, kids can play over and over.
Using dress-up stickers you can buy at 100-yen shops to try unexpected combinations is also a fun idea.
Try making a toy that both taps into children’s rich creativity and helps train their fine motor skills.
Dollar store Minecraft block
Grass-covered dirt blocks are a common sight in the world of Minecraft! There are also plenty of others, like cobblestone and wood.
How about making different types of blocks and giving them as a gift? Drill a hole in a square wooden block and embed a small magnet.
Paint and decorate the outside, and you’re done! Since the magnet is embedded, you can stack or attach the blocks together.
It takes some effort to make, but it’s a great way to enjoy the world of Minecraft outside the game, so I highly recommend it!