But if you have something like my little plastic pictures, or a tree sprig with a tiny twig at the bottom, I’ve found that it’s easier for me if I have something like little rocks (those blue things you see in the photos they’re aquarium rocks from the pet store that I had from another project) to help keep things in place. If you have things with wide, flat bases, they’re easy to just glue right on. I didn’t do that with this batch and everything has stayed put just fine, but something you can try. You might want to take a piece of sand paper and rough up the inside of the jar lid so the glue adheres better.
You will create your scene on the underside of the jar lid. Make sure when you cut around your lamination, you leave a tiny border so it stays sealed up. Muah!) If you don’t have a laminator, most copy stores have lamination services that don’t cost much. I can’t tell you how much I love it when I have an idea in my head and it actually works like I thought it would! I just took a photo of each kiddo, printed it out on my home printer, cut it out, and ran it through my laminator ( the laminator you all recommended to me on Facebook that I got and love. I decided to take it up a notch though, and put something extra special inside. A snowman would be super easy to make! I snipped all of my greenery off of artificial garlands I have around my house. You can buy all different colors at almost any craft store and it just bakes in the oven. And if you don’t have any of those, try some crap that belongs to your children that you want to throw away anyway fun stuff like this and try a silly snow globe.Īnother really fun thing is to make your own little figurines with Sculpey Clay. Try thrift and craft stores for little winter-themed figurines. If you’re not sure, just try placing the items in a bowl of water for a few hours and see if they start doing weird things. You can be creative with the items that go inside your snow globe, it’s just important that they are made of materials that won’t break down in water. Really any size jar works you just have to find things to fit inside of them. Marinated artichoke heart jars work really great for these, as do little teeny tiny baby food jars.
I am most definitely not.) I also had a bottle of capers that I finally finished by making one last batch of this Grown Up Dipping Sauce (another obsession, you guys need to all try that one), and a big jar from marinara that we used for dipping Pizza Rolls. Check out your fridge I grabbed an almost empty bottle of peperoncini peppers (that I have been using on Greek Salads and Greek Tacos, you’d think I was the pregnant one with the cravings I have for those. They're so affordable, in fact, you could put one in each of your kids' rooms for a relaxing way to lull them to sleep.The first thing you need are jars, with nice snug lids. Once again, thanks to LED technology, you can get color-changing snow globes at a really reasonable price. Kids seem to be more enamored with anything that continuously changes color. We've found that those by Thomas Kinkade are the most elegant and realistic, but also the most expensive of all. Thanks to incredibly small but efficient LED lights, a flip of the switch is enough to make the tiny towns and homes glitter with realistic warmth. Often the scene inside involves snowy villages and Christmas homes. Where Can You Find Illuminated Snow Globes?Īdults especially love illuminated snow globes. How Were Snow Globes Invented?īelieve it or not, there's plenty of evidence to say that if Thomas Edison had invented a better lightbulb, we might never have gotten to indulge in our passion for snow globes.Īccording to this article by Linda Rodriquez McRobbie for MentalFloss, there's a bit of a comical and quite interesting story about how they came into being. Thankfully, lots of snow globes are automatically activated by a switch on the base in case you're worried about tiny hands letting them crash to the floor while shaking. Whether they contain replicas of snow or sparkling glitter, and when gently shaken these water balls change for calm scenes to swirly blizzards. From the idyllic tiny scenes inside to the magic of snow you can enjoy, but not shovel is pretty darned appealing. They simply bring out our love of fantasy in so many ways. It's hard not to be enamored with snow globes.
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