Want a really easy gift game idea for your kids friends or for your neighbors this Holiday season? How about this simple but fun Tic Tac Toe game? This portable, magnetic game is perfect for taking on road trips, restaurants or appointments to help pass the time for your restless little ones…or let’s face it…yourself. Want to know how I made it so you can make one to? I thought so…
As part of the Martha Stewart Holiday Paint Campaign sponsored by Plaid, I was sent an amazing collection of paints, stencils and brushes from Martha’s new paint line! It was like Christmas morning! So many great products for creating so much creative goodness.
For this project, I used a couple of the paint products—Martha Stewart’s satin white paint and Martha Stewart’s Magnetic Paint. I used many of the various sized paint brushes they sent me and some fun Letter Stencils. You will also need some magnets, a wooden plaque and some round wooden 1 inch buttons which I was able to pick up at Lowe’s.
Take your wooden plaque and paint three coats of the magnetic paint onto the front of it. I painted just up to the edge of the plaque. I followed the directions on the back of the magnetic paint label and painted one coat at a time and let it dry for an hour before painting each additional coat. You will want to add at least two layers of the paint so that your magnets will hold well. Then I let it dry for 24 hours.
While the magnetic paint was drying, I painted the wooden buttons using Martha Stewart’s satin white paint. I loved this paint. It was so thick and smooth. It only took a two coats and the finish was so smooth and pretty. After they had dried completely, I stenciled the letters x and o with the Martha Stewart Letter Stencils onto the white buttons. I made a total of 10 buttons and made 5 o’s and 5 x’s. When they are dry glue some magnets to the bottoms using some E6000 glue.
Then I painted the edges of the plaque with a coat of black paint. This will show up under the white when I sand and rough up the edges for a nice distressed look. When the black paint is dry, use the white satin paint again to cover up the black and to give your plaque a nice finished look. I only painted around the sides and edges of the black as I added some fun patterned paper on the top.
Attach the paper with some Mod Podge with a layer underneath and a layer on the top to adhere and protect the paper. I prefer the matte finish Mod Podge.
When it has dried completely you can take a piece of sand paper and rough up the edges to give it a fun, distressed look.
Pretty simple and makes for a fun, homemade inexpensive gift idea.
And…that is not all…if you want you can change it up and turn it into a fun little photo display or recipe holder…
If you like using Mod Podge and are looking for some more fun craft ideas for the kids, check out these other Mod Podge ideas.
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Heidi@thecraftmonkey says
what a great idea! I love the tic tac toe/memo board! Your right, this would be a great gift to make for Christmas!
Molly @thewaffler says
I like how it turns into a memo board after the kids are finished with it — I love items that do double (and triple) duty.
Jamielyn@iheartnaptime says
SO fun! Love this idea! I’m loving the martha stewart paints!
Michelle says
Oooh i love the photo and recipe holder ideas too! I even have that paper on a project in my kitchen. love it!
Mod Podge Amy says
This is awesome Amy! Love it.
Charlie says
Very cute, Amy! I’m doing something similar in concept, but yours is much more fancy. Just darling!!
Aloha,
Charlie
Shannon Kosub says
Sooooo cute!!!!
Marti says
What a neat idea! Where would the rest of us find this Martha Stewart magnetic paint?
ColleenwithMurals&More says
this turned out so cute! don’t you love the magnetic paint? I have been playing around with it too. I love the idea of a travel game – very clever!
Suzanne says
Such a great and versatile project. Thank you!
Monica says
This is an adorable project! Thanks for the inspiration :) How strongly do the magnets stick to the magnetic paint?
Cameron says
This is really cool . . . but now explain to me how you magically got the supplies in the mail? Because, I need that kind of magic in my life.
Sara says
So pretty!! Would LOVE it if you would link this up at my turquoise lovin’ party! (I’m also including red for the holidays) http://www.sweetlittlegals.com/2011/11/turquoise-lovin-14.html
April says
This is fabulous and cute! I’d like to invite you to my handmade Christmas linky party (I know you probably get lots of invites, but if you have time, I would love for you to stop by!) http://cupofdelight.blogspot.com/2011/12/link-party-delightfully-handmade.html
Lauren says
This is wonderful! I know tons of kids in the family that would love this. What a great little game to give.
I’d love for you to link up and share:
http://tutusandteaparties.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinteresting-link-party-week-sixteen.html
Heather says
I LOVE this!!! I made a board for my son and one for my niece for Christmas…they LOVED it! I also added magnetic funny face project you had previously done and a blank laminated paper with a dry erase marker for a “busy bag” project for traveling, doctor office, church, and so forth. Thank you for the great idea!!!!!