Homemade snow globes are easy and inexpensive to make with your kids for the Holiday Season. They make perfect gifts for your kid’s school teacher, bus driver, or favourite instructor. I can never get tired of flipping them over and watching the sparkles fall down. You can create a different winter scenery for every room in your house!
Snow Globe Supplies
- Jar
- Plastic or ceramic figurines, pine cones, fibre craft foam, bells, plastic jewelry, etc.
- Synthetic evergreen
- Oil-based enamel paint
- Clear-drying epoxy (you can try hot glue too)
- Distilled water
- Glitter
- Glycerin (available at drugstores)
How To Make A Snow Globe
- I find that a Mason preserve jar works best, but a baby-food, olive and pickles jar will be just as good.
- It’s best to use fibre craft foam, plastic or ceramic figurines as metal ones will rust, and you can purchase some, as well as synthetic evergreen, at Micheal’s or at the dollar store.
- You can also paint the jar lids with oil-based enamel paint to give it a seasonal colour.
- The inside of the lid needs to be sanded until the surface is rough so the figurine will adhere better.
- Glue the figurine to the inside of the lid with clear-drying epoxy and let it dry. You can also glue them to the bottom of the jar.
- Next step, fill the jar one centimetre to the top with distilled water, add a pinch of colourful Christmas glitters (red/green/silver) and a drop of glycerin. The glycerin will keep the glitters from falling too quickly at the bottom of the jar. If you add too much, the glitters will stick to the bottom of the jar when you flip it.
- Be careful when you screw on the lid tightly so you don’t dislodge the figurines. Turn the jar over, shake it up gently and let it snow!
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How To Make Snow Globes
Homemade snow globes are easy and inexpensive to make for the Holiday Season. They make perfect gifts for everyone on your list!
Materials
- Jar
- Plastic or ceramic figurines
- Synthetic evergreen
- Oil-based enamel paint
- Clear-drying epoxy (you can try hot glue too)
- Distilled water
- Glitter
- Glycerin (available at drugstores)
Instructions
1. I find that a Mason preserve jar works best, but a baby-food, olive and pickles jar will be just as good.
2. It’s best to use styrofoam, plastic or ceramic figurines as metal ones will rust, and you can purchase some, as well as synthetic evergreen, at Micheal’s or at the dollar store.
3. You can also paint the jar lids with oil-based enamel paint to give it a seasonal colour.
4. The inside of the lid needs to be sanded until the surface is rough so the figurine will adhere better.
5. Glue the figurine to the inside of the lid with clear-drying epoxy and let it dry. You can also glue them to the bottom of the jar.
6. Next step, fill the jar one centimetre to the top with distilled water, add a pinch of colourful Christmas glitters (red/green/silver) and a drop of glycerin. The glycerin will keep the glitters from falling too quickly at the bottom of the jar. If you add too much, the glitters will stick to the bottom of the jar when you flip it.
7. Be careful when you screw on the lid tightly so you don’t dislodge the figurines. Turn the jar over, shake it up gently and let it snow!
I do love this idea of making snow globes yourself. I didn’t know it was really quite easy to do. Thanks for sharing with us 🙂
It certainly is and the fun part is customizing them!
Now this is really cool! I know my boys would love to do this.
and really easy to make:)
This is such a neat craft! Yours looks gorgeous and I love the glitter effect! Thanks for sharing!
I had never thought of doing this. When my daughter is older, it would be fun to try this together.
This will go great with the teacher’s gift – thanks for the idea!
Thanks for sharing this will make a great project to do with the children over the holidays
Let me know how they turn out!
That sounds like a fun project. Snow globes are beautiful.
Great idea I will have to make these with our girls!
Thanks,we had fun with this the kids were very impressed with it all
I”m going to try this with my little boys.
Let me know how they like them and thanks for commenting!
this is such a god idea. im going to try this.
We tried but didnt seem to be as nice as yours
we are going to give these another try next weekend when the grandkids
I love the glitter effect! Real cute
This is so simple!! I bet my grandkids would love to make some; I’ll be bookmarking this page! Thanks
I cant wait to give this another go this Fall
Wow my toddler crafter could so do this.Thanks for sharing!
We are hoping to try this again on the weekend if the weather holds up so the grandkids can come !
Perfect for a March Break craft:)
These look fun! And something different is always fun!
I never realized these were so easy to make. My grandchildren would love to make these.
Thanks for sharing.
It really is! Enjoy making them with your grandchildren!
My grandchildren love snow globes.
Wow; I truly never knew one could make their own snow globe so easily! This is quite a surprising find — thanks!
Thank you for sharing this, I never knew you could make snow globes.
Thanks for this wonderful idea going to make them with my granddaughter so she can make a gift for her parents.
This is such a cool idea and I love the pictures above
Thank you!