Final Project Idea - Magna Beads
A few weeks ago in class, our assignment was to form a "corporation" with a classmate, and start thinking about unique children's media of any kind. I of course teamed up with Meredith Silverman, and we got right to work. Mer had the immediate, brilliant idea to create magnetic jewelery. Here is our pitch!
Our first step was to order magnets, and see if they had enough force to stay around our neck or wrist. They did.
Our next step was to head to the craft store and see what type of clay we would wrap around the magnets. We needed to find air-dry clay, because if we used baking clay, then the baking process would de-magnetize the magnets.
For our first trial run, we used air-dry, pottery clay.
However, the clay was dry and brittle, and did not pass our "Drop Test," which was basically us standing on the stairwell by the workshop, and dropping the beads on the cement floor.
We headed back to Pearl Paint, and got paper based, air dry clay. This time around came out looking much better.
We didn't even need to perform the "Drop Test" since we accidentally dropped the necklace on the ground. Half of the beads went on the floor (without cracking!) and the other half stuff to the bars on a chair (darn magnets!)