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Craft Tutorials | Adult Crafts | Crafts for Seniors | Birthplace Map Keychain Charms
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Birthplace Map Keychain Charms

Author by Amanda Davis on May 23, 2014 Updated on January 28, 2025

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Birthplace Map Keychain Charms

 

I often have a hard time coming up with Father’s Day and birthday gift ideas for my husband. He’s a mechanic, so many of the traditional cards and gifts out there won’t work for him as they are geared around the office or wearing a tie. In fact, that’s why I made this Blue Collar Uniform Shirt Card several years ago, because the Internet was seriously lacking in the blue collar sector. Not all dads wear ties to work. :)

Yesterday while making projects in my craft room I was trying to come up with ideas when it suddenly hit me. I have lots of maps and road atlases sitting around, so I decided that I would create some charms that represented where everyone in our immediate family was born. My husband was born in Waukegan, Illinois and I was born in Leicester, England. Two of our children were born in Highland Park, Illinois, while the other two were born in Henderson, Nevada during our years there. So I found those cities on the maps that I had and created this fun and unique keychain that is specific to him, to us. I’m saving it until Father’s Day, but this would also make a great Christmas gift, wedding gift or anniversary gift.

birthplace map steps

If you preferred, instead of birthplaces, you could use places you have traveled to or where you met and got married. There are lots of possibilities! I used Acrylic Keychain Blanks, which I love for keychains and magnets!

Another great project, especially for the car lover in your life, is this Mod Podge Photo Collage Clipboard.

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Birthplace Map Keychain Charms

Supplies

  • Road Atlas or road maps
  • Acrylic keychain blanks the ones with the built in hanger hole
  • Cording
  • Large round keyring
  • Tools: scissors white craft glue, Mod Podge decoupage, paintbrush

Instructions

  • Go through your maps and find the birth city of each member of your family. Place a podgeable shape over the city and position it where you want it then trace around it onto the map.
  • Cut out the map shapes, cutting the shape a little smaller than your tracing line.
  • Paint a moderate layer of Mod Podge onto the back of each podgeable shape and to the FRONT of each map piece.
  • Press the back of the podgeable shape onto the front of the map piece. You will have a short window of time where you can move the piece around to position it. Don't wait too long or it will start to dry! Get it in place then press to make sure it's flat. Next paint a layer of Mod Podge onto the back of the map to seal it. Allow the shapes to dry.
  • Measure a piece of cord to about 18-inches long. Run the cord through the hole at the top of the shape and tie the cord in a knot. Add another shape and tie again. Continue until all maps are added. Tie two more knots at the end.
  • Run one end of the cord through the keyring. Tie the cord loosely once, then tie in a second knot, and leaving a loop so that the keyring can move freely, tighten those two knots together. Secure the knot with some white craft glue and leave it to dry. Snip off the excess cord with scissors.

I originally made this project for Spoonful. Spoonful has since closed and the instructions were taken down. I am putting the instructions here until such time that Spoonful projects are redirected to a new home. At that time I will remove the instructions and link directly to the project on their site.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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Filed Under: Crafts for Seniors, Decoupage Crafts for Adults, Decoupage Crafts for Kids, DIY Gift ideas, Father's Day Crafts, Recycled Crafts for Adults Tagged With: adult, adult craft ideas, adult crafts, adults, crafts for adults, decoupage, father's day, holidays, keychain, kid's crafts, map, maps, mod lodge, podgeable, podgeable shapes, recycle, recycle crafts, recycled, recycled crafts

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  1. DILPRIT says

    January 14, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Hi,

    im from India, i couldn;t found these Mod Podge podgeable acrylic shapes in india.

    Pls suggest some other materials that can be used for making Fridge Magnets..

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      February 7, 2016 at 6:46 am

      I’m afraid that I don’t know what’s available in India. You may have to go to a hobby shop or craft store and see what’s there. Sorry!

      Reply
  2. teresa says

    May 26, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Where can I buy the charms for the birthplace maps

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      May 27, 2014 at 6:55 am

      Hi Teresa. The charms should be available at any craft store, you might even check WalMart too. Here’s a link to them on Amazon http://amzn.to/S00ne7

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