We participate in an ornament swap with a local parenting group each year. This year we decided to make mini water-less snow globes for one of our ornaments. Lexi was my lovely assistant.
I managed to get all of the labels and glue off of the babyfood jars by using hot water and elbow grease. I'm sure goof-off would have been easier, but I was trying to avoid using chemicals.
We painted the lids using a sharpie paint pen. It took a few coats.
Then we used hot glue to adhere the miniature snowmen and little pine trees. I found these at Hobby Lobby. The snowmen were ornaments for miniature trees, and I just cut the string off. The little trees were in the dollhouse section.
I thought about trying to drill through the glass, but we decided against it and just hot glued the ribbon as you see here:
Lexi made a sign.
I used these ecoflurries for the snow. It is definitely not compatible with an water-filled snow globe. It turns kind of slimy when water touches it.
Here are our finished products. I think they turned out great.
So cute!
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