Educational magnetic craft kit and method

Abstract

An educational kit for use in teaching children shapes, colors and to exercise creativity. The kit comprises a backboard of a magnetically attractable material, at least one sheet of stencils, at least one sheet of a flexible magnetic material, at least one sheet of a laminating material, coloring implements and a set of graphical instructions. The child can use the stencil sheet to draw a figure or design on to the sheet of magnetic material and then use the coloring implements to color in that design or figure, thus learning shapes as well as colors and coloring techniques. After the design or figure is completed, it can be cut out of the magnetic sheet and laminated by use of the laminating sheets to protect that design or figure. Thus, the completed design or figure can then be affixed magnetically to the backboard so that the child can show off the completed product. As alternative teaching steps, the child can use, or graduate to the use of, freehand figures rather that with the use of the stencils and thus encourage initiative and creativity. As a further alternate, the child can, rather than make the design on to the magnetic material, cut out a picture from a magazine and affix that picture to the magnetic material, laminate the picture along with the magnetic material and use that product to be affixed magnetically to the backboard.

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