Crafty, crafty, crafty! Those clear flattened glass marbles you can get from the Dollar Store, Michaels or JoAnn Fabrics are very handy for making giveaways.
I did up some sketches, photocopied them, cut them out, used Elmer's Glue on the back of the marble, attached the picture, put more glue on the back of the picture and then let them dry. It works just like Modge Podge - which is basically Elmer's Glue with a little water.
Once they were dry I gave them two coats of clear fingernail polish on the backs, making sure to get it covering all the glue on the edges of the glass, and they're ready to go. Cost - $1 for a bag of the flattened marbles, 79 cents for a whole bottle of glue, $1 at the Dollar Store for clear fingernail polish.
Only hazard to the project was the fumes from the fingernail polish. Do it with an OPEN window! Man! I don't need to be killing brain cells!
One of the things I want to do is transfer small drawings of the characters to them like this at a future date. Sure they're time intensive but I think it'd be fun if done in small batches.
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