salt dough magnets

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With a complete kitchen renovation going on in our loft I have been sifting through our mass amount of kitchen items and finding new ways to organize everything. Something that needed some pretty major attention was our refrigerator. I’m talking about the outside–we won’t get into the inside…that could take days!Somehow every piece of mail that we have received since Christmas has ended up posted on our fridge. I don’t know what made me decide that was a good resting place for it all, but it was looking pretty crazy! In effort to clean up my life a little bit I decided to make some adorable magnets to hang on the fridge. (Hopefully the cuteness will scare off my hoarding tendencies!)


Make the dough:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup salt
  • 1/2 cup cold water

1.) Mix all three ingredients in a bowl until the dough forms into a ball

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Stamp it!

2.) Knead the dough until it is soft and ready to roll out

3.) Flour your surface

4.) Roll dough out to roughly 1/8″ thick

5.) Cut out dough with the shape of your choice–I used a spice lid for mine :) Use what you have I always say!

6.) Feel free to stamp your magnets at this point too!

7.) Place your magnets on a parchment paper lined cookie sheetSalt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

8.) Bake at 200 degrees for 2 hours

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Attach the magnets!

9.) Let dough cool

10.) Hot glue your magnets to the dough

11.) Enjoy!

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Salt dough magnets www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Tanner and I have a tendency to not know for sure if the dishwasher is clean or dirty so I decided to go ahead and end that confusion once and for all!

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I also made up a couple ways to keep track of needed items…

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

And of course left room for some fun!

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Salt dough magnets | www.gimmesomestyleblog.com

Anyone else need a way to clean up their fridge?

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My name is Liz. I dwell in the "Paris of the Plains" (aka Kansas City) and am married to my highschool sweetheart. Together we have a dog named Veda and a 1976 VW bus. Both of which we love like they are our children. :) I write about all things pretty. I hope to leave people feeling hopeful and inspired as I share my little ideas with the interweb. Enjoy! You can find Liz on Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter.

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13 thoughts on “salt dough magnets

  1. I used parchment paper but my dough stuck to it:-( HELP!!

  2. Sounds like fun!! Thanks for sharing. I think I will have to try this someday. One question, can you use any kind of markers or paint to color your magnets? Thank you.

    • I would recommend a permanent paint or marker just to prevent any wearing off or bleeding but I think most would work! You could always seal it with some modge podge too!

  3. I just made these and it was great fun!! I had one question. How did you color the letters after baking??? Thank-you! :-)

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    stefanie phelps March 18, 2013 at 8:34 am

    I love your step by step directions with a photo to match them all. I am such a visual person that its nice to see what they should turn out like and the process. Photos look great! Need to try this out!

  5. I LOVE those little magnets – so cute…and totally useful. Your photography is amazing!

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  7. These are lovely! I will most definitely make these. Thank you for sharing!

  8. SO adorable!!! And I love all of the text you chose too! :)