Total Time 1 to 2 hours Ages school-age
Here's a twist on the traditional snow globe: fabric flowers, plastic figures, and a pinch of glitter in a recycled jar celebrate the coming of the warmer season.
What you'll need
- Clean jar with lid
- Fabric flowers
- Small plastic figures
- Hot glue gun
- Floral wire (optional)
- Glitter and confetti
- Teflon tape, also called plumber's tape, found in hardware stores
- Scissors
- Green paper
How to make it
- Turn the lid upside down. Loosely arrange the flowers and figures on it, periodically placing the jar over the items to check for fit.
- Use the hot glue gun to adhere the flowers and figures to the lid. To attach the butterfly in our globe, we first hot-glued the figure to one end of a piece of floral wire, then hot-glued the wire's other end to the lid.
- Fill the jar with water to within a half inch from the top and add the glitter and confetti.
- Dry the rim of the jar and wrap one layer of Teflon tape around the threads to ensure a leak-proof seal. Immerse the decorations in the jar and tighten the lid.
- Cut and fringe the green paper to make a decorative base and glue it around the lid.
