Creative, Cozy, and Comfortable: Knowledge #2 and Back to School Project

Knowledge #2 for personal Progress says:

In your journal list talents you have and others you would like to develop. Read Matthew 25:14–30. Learn a new skill or talent that will help you care for your own future family or home (for example, playing the piano, singing, budgeting, time management, cooking, sewing, or child care). Share with your family, class, or Young Women leader what you have learned.

This is a great one that you can do for your young women's weekly activity. Read Matthew 25:14–30 and then list the talents you have and others that you would like to develop in your journal.

For the skill to develop I thought that with school coming just around the corner that it would be great to learn some organizing skills. And to do a craft to help us practice that durning the school year.

Magnetic Chalkboard:

Here is a cute magnetic organizer for your locker. You put it in your locker and then when you have homework in that subject you put the magnet on that day.

Your first step to make this magnet board is to make and then cut out your chalkboard background. I created mine using Word I found the chalkboard background here then I found this cool website here that you can install fonts. The fonts that I used were:

Homework- here

Monday- here

Tuesday- here

Wednesday- here

Thursday- here

Friday- here

Arrow- here
*For the arrow it was a little tricky but you just install it like a font and then "D" is the arrow

i can do this saying- I just used was Monotype Corsiva which was already installed in word.

You now need to get your sheet of metal (not aluminum) I got mine at hobby lobby here.

*If you cant find the magnetic sheet you could try just making two cute magnets and putting them at the top to hold it ( I haven't tried it but it might work)

You then just modge podge the front side of your medal sheet.

Then you want to put your paper on the modge podge (make sure that you don't have any air bubbles) and after you have done that you want to paint modge podge over that top of your chalkboard. (That is what will give it the glossy finish.) Let it dry!

Now get your glue gun out and glue one or two magnets on the back so that it will stick to your locker. Let that dry and you are done with the chalkboard!!!

Magnets:

Your next step is the magnets. I found my magnets (circle ones) at hobby lobby as well. I found some cute online patterns that I just printed off here are some of my favorites:

Here

Your first step for the magnets is to print off patterns or get scrapbook paper and then you can either just write your subjects on the paper or type and print your subjects off. (You can do this in two ways too I will show you one way and the other way is if you are printing off patterns you can just type on them and then print)

Now get your magnets and modge modge and paint on your magnet

Then get your paper and put that on top of the magnet you can chose to keep it square or you can cut it in a circle to fit the shape of the magnet.

Now get your subject and cut it out so that it is small then put modge podge on it then stick it on the magnet. An then put modge podge over the whole thing. Let it Dry! Repeat the steps to make as many magnets as you want!