Martha Stewart crafts - The Idea Room

Want a really easy gift game idea for your kids friends or for your neighbors this Holiday season? How about this simple but fun Tic Tac Toe game? This portable, magnetic game is perfect for taking on road trips, restaurants or appointments to help pass the time for your restless little ones…or let’s face it…yourself. Want to know how I made it so you can make one to? I thought so…

As part of the Martha Stewart Holiday Paint Campaign sponsored by Plaid, I was sent an amazing collection of paints, stencils and brushes from Martha’s new paint line! It was like Christmas morning! So many great products for creating so much creative goodness.

For this project, I used a couple of the paint products—Martha Stewart’s White Satin Paint and Martha Stewart’s Magnetic Paint. I used many of the various sized paint brushes they sent me and some fun Letter Stencils. You will also need some magnets, a wooden plaque and some round wooden 1 inch buttons which I was able to pick up at Lowe’s.

Take your wooden plaque and paint three coats of the magnetic paint onto the front of it. I painted just up to the edge of the plaque. I followed the directions on the back of the magnetic paint label and painted one coat at a time and let it dry for an hour before painting each additional coat. You will want to add at least two layers of the paint so that your magnets will hold well. Then I let it dry for 24 hours.

While the magnetic paint was drying, I painted the wooden buttons using Martha Stewart’s satin white paint. I loved this paint. It was so thick and smooth. It only took a two coats and the finish was so smooth and pretty. After they had dried completely, I stenciled the letters x and o with the Martha Stewart Letter Stencils onto the white buttons. I made a total of 10 buttons and made 5 o’s and 5 x’s. When they are dry glue some magnets to the bottoms using some E6000 glue.

Then I painted the edges of the plaque with a coat of black paint. This will show up under the white when I sand and rough up the edges for a nice distressed look. When the black paint is dry, use the white satin paint again to cover up the black and to give your plaque a nice finished look. I only painted around the sides and edges of the black as I added some fun patterned paper on the top.

Attach the paper with some Mod Podge with a layer underneath and a layer on the top to adhere and protect the paper. I prefer the matte finish Mod Podge.

When it has dried completely you can take a piece of sand paper and rough up the edges to give it a fun, distressed look.

Pretty simple and makes for a fun, homemade inexpensive gift idea.