We had a farewell play date with some of the other moms and kids in the co-op this morning, where we made snow globes with the kids. I didn’t think to bring my camera with me there unfortunately, but we decided to make snow globes. This was definitely more of a mom’s craft than a kid’s craft, but Meredith did have fun helping to pick out the ornaments and then filling the jars with water and glitter. Unfortunately, when I picked out the ornaments for inside one of the things I chose were some little trees. The lady at the store said they used them in their own snow globes and they worked well, so I didn’t think anything of it. They ended up turning our water blue! I rinsed the tree for the second globe, but even that one is slowly but surely turning blue. Oh well, they still look pretty!
These can be made very cheaply too. I reused two old jars, and got the ornaments on clearance. One of the other moms got her ornaments for $.50 each from a thrift store.
I also managed to get the words on both jars to end up directly in front of the people in our ornaments, so I couldn’t take a good picture of either one of them without the words in the way. Hence, the funny angles. These are pretty easy and I think if done without blue trees and with more care about where the words on the jar end up, they would make good gifts. Basically, choose a wide-mouthed jar and matching lid. Use waterproof silicone glue to glue the lid parts together, and to glue the ornament onto the lid. Silicone glue normally says to wait 24 hours before getting it wet, but we only waited a couple of hours and so far they are fine.
Fill the jar with distilled water. You want it mostly full but leave a little room for air. Add a small amount of glycerin (I think we added about a teaspoon). We’re not entirely sure what the point of the glycerin is. One of the other moms forgot the glycerin in one jar and it was working just fine (if not better than some of the others).
Here’s the part where the kids come in (and they did have fun with this step). Add the snow glitter (just large, white glitter). We also had silver glitter, and snowflake shaped beads. Don’t be too stingy, especially with the snow glitter. You can swirl the jars around before you put them together to get an idea of how it might look and whether you might need more glitter. Then glue around the lid and the threads and shut the jars tightly.
Now that the jars are together, we can decorate the bottoms with ribbon or paint. I may actually take these ones apart again to rinse the trees more, replace the water, and try and get them back on so you can actually see into the jars to the ornaments, and then reglue them. Even with the blue though, they’re pretty and Meredith loves them. If we didn’t have to ship our gifts so far, I’d consider making them again next year for gifts.
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