You might remember decorating your ceiling with glow in the dark stars and planets as a kid. At night, you’d look up and have a glowing galaxy all to yourself. With magnets, the possibilities for your glowing galaxy can go beyond your bedroom ceiling. Here are a few ways you can repurpose those plastic, glow-in-the-dark stars:
Illuminate Your Fridge
If you’ve ever awoken in the middle of the night ravenous for a midnight snack, you understand the struggle of navigating in the dark. Instead of fumbling around in the dark or blinding yourself by turning on the lights, you can use your plastic stars and planets. Just glue some small disc magnets to the back of the shooting stars and ringed planets. Once the glue is dry, you can adorn your fridge with a magnetic galaxy. Now when you sneak around searching for midnight munchies, all you have to do is follow the glowing stars.
Make a Unique Gift
Everyone has that hard-to-buy-for loved one on their holiday shopping list. If you’re really stuck, you can make this unique gift at the last minute. A set of magnetic glow in the dark stars would make a cute, practical, and unexpected gift. Your secret santa can use them to decorate their fridge, use them on a chalkboard or whiteboard to hold notes and photos, or even to decorate a boring old filing cabinet. Use strong neodymium magnets for your simple DIY gift to make sure they are quality magnets that will last a long time.
Decorate Your Garage
Magnetic glow in the dark stars are also perfect for decorating the walls in your garage. They are easy to remove and easy to apply because the rare earth magnets will attract to the metal walls of your garage. You can arrange them to point your way to a light switch or use them to hold up posters. Depending on the size of your magnets, you can even use them to organize small metal objects like nails and screws. The possibilities are endless with your glowing magnetic galaxy. How did you use your new glow in the dark space magnets?
