One of my favorite things in our house is our magnetic wall.
No, our house doesn’t have super powers. If it did, I’d wish for something cooler than a half magnetic wall. Maybe a house that leaks money rather than sucking it from us. Or a house that had a roof that never needed replacing, unlike our leaky shake roof.
Since I was given these cool alphabet magnets last year, I’ve been wanting a magnetic wall. They are too large for the fridge. Magnetic paint wouldn’t hold them up. Plus, we weren’t to hip to the idea of having a black wall in the middle of our house. Metal is expensive. I wanted a metal wall, but I didn’t want one that I’d have to give a kidney for. Every time we went to Home Depot we’d wander around looking for inexpensive metal sheets. Finally we found the source of cheap metal sheets.
Dave made our magnetic wall from two sheets of metal ducting and a half dozen screw. All for less than $25.
It serves as a bulletin board:
Mike does his spelling on this wall. The older kids would spell on here too, but we only have two of each letter. It makes more complicated words a bit of a challenge.
McKayla encourages herself on this wall.
The kids torment each other on this wall. I’ll find things like “Mike smells” or “Marshall is dumb” or “I hate you”. Our home is just bursting with love.
Dave sends me cryptic adult themed messages.
We play alphabet fetch with the twins.
We’ve also discovered that you can write on it with dry erase markers. It becomes a large shiny wipe board, a canvas for art, a large area to work mathematical problems.
It’s really the perfect educational center toy. Plus it’s all shiny. It just begs to be played with. How can any one not love something so shiny?
I have big plans for this wall. Poetry words, math manipulatives, magnetic art prints. What ideas do you have?
Overactiveovaries 
LOVE IT!!!