CD Magnet

This simple craft is easy to make, and provides instant gratification (and rainbows) to whatever surface you decide to stick it to.

When going back to school, you can be the first one on your hallway to have one of these nifty CD magnets!

Step 1 Supplies

You will need:

-One CD
-A smallish magnet
-A hot glue gun
-The Spring-Loaded CD Holder from a CD player.
(This one still has the motor attached.)

Comments

[jimbo13]

i make cd spin art paintings and they are available on ebay. check them out.

[mistic]

interesting device that will draw attention .i attached a cd to a fish cord string and hung it from the ceiling. a slight breeze rotates the cd and flashes rainbow colors,  also i cut out a snowflake crystal and glued it on one side- this was also  eyecatching as it rotated in the slightes breeze. i did a google search to find colorful snowflake crystals to print out.

[jayteerox]

Its probably also a good idea to mention that the CD will likely be unusable after this, as magnetic fields can wipe them. Only use a CD that you don't care about. Otherwise, good instructable.

[prestux]

CDs are optical storage devices imprinted by laser...the presence of magnetism will not "wipe" them.

[paulhogan]

That is correct. One of the main reasons that I made this was so that you could change out the CD without damage to it.