DIY Scrabble Magnets

I love words. I enjoy reading, writing, and words games, especially scrabble! I've seen some similar ideas floating around the interwebs, and so I thought I'd give this a try.

It started with me finding this down on it's luck scrabble set:

It's very old, and looks water damaged. I snatched it up, and since it didn't have a price, went to the checkout line to ask. The clerk responded with, "You want to buy that?!". After I assured him that yes, I did really want to buy it, he said, "I don't know, $0.10?" Awesome! I paid for it right then!

This guy's seen better days...

The box and playing board were both really damaged and falling apart, and I couldn't really use them for anything. So I removed all the wood tiles and gave them a good cleaning with my homemade cleaner.  Then I fired up my hot glue gun, and got to work.

I had these magnets left over from a previous pinterest craft attempt. I can't find the link now, but it involved gluing the magnets to small plastic baskets, to be used for spices on the side of the refrigerator. It was a huge fail. No matter how many magnets I glued on, the smallest item would cause the baskets to slide all the way down to the floor. Oh well!

I hot glued one magnet on the back of each tile, and then pressed them together for a few seconds so the glue would set.

Some of the tiles also had staining, but I like the look!

I let them dry for about a half hour (Hot glue dries super fast, and the tiles are light) then I arranged them all onto my fridge!

What do you think? I love that it's unique, and also since it's scrabble tiles you have the ability to make more words than with a traditional alphabet magnet set, because there are more duplicates. I actually ran out of magnets before I glued all the tiles, so I'll have to pick up some more to finish it out. I'm thinking there was about 100 tiles total, and I only had 50 magnets.

Fun Fun!