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Silly Face Magnet Board

May 21, 2015 by Wifeeclectic 6 Comments

 

One of the biggest hits of the travel basket I put together for our long road trip, was the silly faces board. My daughter loved dressing up the faces with mustaches, google eyes and most of all drawing of the faces with a dry erase markers. I printed a bunch of different 5x7s, pretty much anybody that I had close head shots of, so she had pictures of her parents, grandparents and some of her aunts and  uncles to play around with. She loved having the variety of people. If you don’t already have a stash of pictures, just take a close up picture of each person you want to include and print a 5×7.

You will need:

 

  • 5×7 Straight On Head Shots of Family Members
  • A Way to Laminate
  • Mustache Stickers
  • Google Eye
  • Other Stickers, Construction Paper or Dry Erase Markers
  • Magnet Tape
  • Magnet
  • Cookie Sheet to use as a magnet board

 

After you print your 5x7s, make sure to laminate each picture. I have an at home laminator and I absolutely love it! It made the whole travel basket a breeze to make. This is the one I have. Have each picture laminated will prevent finger prints all over the pictures and also will allow your kids to draw on the picture with dry erase markers. After each picture is laminated, add several strips of magnetic tape to the back of each one to hold them on the board.

Add magnets to the back of google eyes and mustaches. For the mustaches, I found a bunch of mustache stickers, stuck them on a piece of thin cardboard and then cut them out and added magnet to the back of the cardboard. I also added pipe cleaners, pop poms and piece of construction paper so she could dress each person up even more.

I store all of the pieces, including dry erase markers in a binder pouch in my travel basket of games. You can find my other play mats here including a free printable car map, ocean play mat and farm play mat.

How do you keep your kids busy on road trips?
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Filed Under: Printables, Quiet Book, Travel, Tutorials Tagged With: Arts and Crafts, Travel, Travel with Kids

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  1. Masshole Mommy says

    May 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    That is a cute idea. We have a book like that at home.

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  2. MikiHope says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    That will keep kids busy for sure. And if they get tired of that and the other games you have–maybe looking out the window and playing the a b c game or 1 2 3 game will work for a time as well.

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  3. Crystal says

    May 21, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    That's a fun idea for keeping the kiddos happy while in the car. I can only imagine the horns they'd add to each others' pictures.

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  4. Liz Mays says

    May 22, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    I think kids would love to do that to pics of their family! This is such a cute idea!

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  5. kristi dominguez says

    May 22, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    SO FUN!!! Love this! Perfect project for this rainy weekend!

    Reply
  6. Kristin and Megan says

    May 24, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    Ok, this project is beyond cute! Perfect to do with the kiddos!

    Reply

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