Remember the Moo Cards I used on our Christmas gift tags?

Well the season is now very much over (although I still have yet to pull our Christmas tree down!) and I’m left with about 50 cards with pictures of the family on them and “Love, Fern, Dan, Declan, Connor & #3″ written on the back. About half of them have gone to my mother in law so she can keep a stack of photos of the grandkids in her handbag to pull out whenever she wants to brag about them and a few have been framed and placed in the pile of pictures I will frame but will probably never get around to putting up, but there’s still quite a few that need homes, and I knew if I didn’t do something with them now they would forever sit in that little box waiting for a day when I pull them out and look at them again.

Inspiration struck this morning as the fridge repairman was trying to work out what was wrong with our brand new refrigerator – magnets!

So, you will need:

• Moo Cards or photos printed on heavy card stock, or you could use regular photo paper but laminate it so it’s strong enough.
• Promotional fridge magnets, we get these in the mail every few weeks from carpet cleaning services and pest exterminators. If you don’t get these in your junk mail you can buy sheets of “magnetic paper” from most craft stores.
• Scissors and superglue.

I don’t think instructions are really required here, simply cut the magnet down to the size that will best support your image (long thin strips were best for the Moo Cards), run a thin line of superglue along the middle of the picture, wait for it to dry (no, really) and stick them up on your fridge.

These would be great for matching type games for toddlers, get a set of photos and a set of names printed up and you can match the photo of a relative to the name, capital and lowercase letter matching, or for younger children grouping similar colours.