You can find them in thrift stores and maybe even in the back of your mother's hutch! I have several of my grandmother's up in the attic. Old "silver" serving trays.

I happen to find one in a box of goodies I bought at an auction. It wasn't "old" but it was fairly nice....not a cheapo. What to do, what to do.

Seriously, who uses silver trays any more...nobody, so you have to find SOMETHING to do with them!

First, I tried painting it with chalkboard paint. After curing over night, I pretty much scraped it off with my fingernail.

That was an epic FAIL!

Magnets? Dry erase? How about BOTH!!!!

I had some left over round magnets from another project so I glued some little black pom-poms on them, glued one on the end of a dry-erase marker for an eraser....hot glued a piece of magnet on the marker...and there you have it!

A magnetic dry erase board!

I also hot glued a frame hanger on the back....