Skip to Content

Conversation Heart Valentine’s Day Magnets

To profess my love for conversation hearts, I made some colorful little Valentine’s Day magnets! What a great gift idea, and so easy.

Skills Required: Beginner. You’re going to be mixing Plaster of Paris and pouring it in molds. Then you’ll be painting and gluing. It’s relatively easy to make these conversation heart magnets even if you don’t have much craft experience.

Conversation Heart Valentine's Day Magnets

Hey guys – it’s Aki from Minted Strawberry stopping by to share a fun Valentines-inspired tutorial for you! I just love colorful conversation hearts – a lot of people say they don’t taste that great but I find them good to have every now and then (just not the really big bags!).

To profess my love for these colorful little candies, I made some magnets to stick on the file cabinet to hold up little notes for my husband (such as reminders to pick up more craft stuff for me!).

Valentine’s Day Magnets

Gather These Supplies

Mixed Plaster of Paris poured into a silicone heart mold

Step 1. Mix up your Plaster of Paris with water according to the package directions and quickly pour it into your mold. Tap it onto the table a few times to level it out.

Magnets on the top of the hearts in the silicone mold

Step 2. Let it set for about 3 minutes and drop the magnets onto the middle of each heart – it should not sink since it has set a bit, if it still sinks, quickly take out your magnet and let it set for another minute or so before trying again. Push until the magnet is level with the back of the heart.

Magnets pushed into the plaster

Step 3. Let the plaster set completely, about an hour or two for small objects like this, and pop it out carefully.

Hearts sanded down with smooth grit sandpaper

Step 4. If your plaster overflowed, you may have some extra bits. Sand it down with smooth-grit sandpaper.

Paint mixed with white to make pastel paint colors in the silicone mold

Step 5. Choose your paint colors – I had bright paints, so I mixed them with white to create the popular pastel colors that conversation hearts come in. This is a good way to prolong the use of each bottle of paint that you have!

Painting the plaster hearts with pastel paint colors

Step 6. Paint, making sure you get inside every nook and cranny. You will want to start painting the sides first, and the bottom, before finally painting the top. Let it dry.

Red acrylic paint on a piece of adhesive paper

Step 7. While drying, you can work on the letters. You can use red vinyl or a red pen – since I had neither one of those things, I used some leftover sticker paper that I painted red. I also used my Silhouette Portrait to cut some small letters to fit my conversation hearts.

Adhering letters to the hearts and using a small tool to place them

Step 8. Adhere it onto the hearts, using a hook tool to manipulate the letters. Press down gently for the letters to stick, and you are done!

DIY heart magnets for Valentine's Day
Conversation heart crafts for Valentine's Day
DIY conversation hearts
Make plaster magnets shaped like hearts for Valentine's Day

Love how cute these Valentine’s Day conversation heart magnets turned out! Do you like conversation hearts, too? Don’t forget to check out my blog for more creative inspiration, or visit some of the links below. Happy crafting, friends!

Holly

Thursday 8th of February 2024

My son's name is Aki! What a small world.

Paige

Thursday 28th of January 2016

These magnets are so adorable! I want to make some for my son! He would love them!

Paige https://www.thehappyflammily.com/

Aki @ Minted Strawberry

Friday 29th of January 2016

Thanks! They're really fun to make. The heart mold was very inexpensive too!