The whole family can make crafts on New Year and winter themes. This activity is exciting and will greatly unite the household. It’s frosty outside and the wind is shaking the trees, it’s cold and dark, and you’ve all gathered together at one table to create a small family masterpiece: magic jar with snow. In the warmth and comfort there is always something to talk about, both small and large. And you are also busy with useful work, the result of your efforts will only be a small miracle of yours. You can even feel like a wizard. A New Year's item will decorate the apartment and always remind you to get together like this more often. And, of course, all relatives will appreciate a family gift, because handmade things contain a piece of the soul.
What you will need for work:
A small jar with a screw cap.
A decorative plastic element such as a Christmas tree, a snowman, or any other product of a suitable theme.
Glycerol.
Glitter.
Tinsel.
Scissors.
Hot glue gun.
- First of all, clear the jar of stickers and fill it exactly halfway with water.
- Fill the remaining space of the jar with glycerin. We pour it heaped, so to speak.
- Glue the product you have chosen to the lid of the jar; for example, let’s look at the Christmas tree. It is best to degrease the surfaces to be glued and make cuts for better adhesion. You can use other waterproof glue in your work.
- Add glitter and small tinsel to water with glycerin. Close the jar tightly. If there are air bubbles, add water or glycerin. The lid must fit tightly to the jar. To be sure, you can put it on glue.
Now all that's left is to try it out. Turn over and shake your jar of snow and enjoy the “Winter Magic” made by your own hands.
Video: How to make a snow globe (a jar of snow) with your own hands
Young children will especially appreciate this. And you will spend many unforgettable and wonderful minutes in the company of your child. Good luck! Happy New Year!
Fascinating and magical holiday. At this time of year, everyone wants to give and receive gifts. In this article you will read how to make a “snow globe” with your own hands to please your loved ones.
Why make a "snow globe"?
Before starting any work, a person asks himself: “Why am I taking on this particular business?” In the case of this craft, this question is easy to answer. Firstly, everyone loves to receive gifts made with their own hands, especially since in the modern world it is also very fashionable. Secondly, such original gift Even children can do it, which is even more valuable.
Thirdly, the New Year's “snow globe” looks beautiful, symbolic, and is suitable for a person of any age. And if you use your imagination, you can create a unique and memorable surprise! And to make it you will need very little time and minimal financial costs.
What is needed for the job?
In 1889, the New Year's "snow globe" was made for the first time. It was presented in Paris and had small size(could fit in the palm of your hand). A copy of the famous Eiffel Tower, and the role of snow was played by fine sifted porcelain and sand. Today, anyone can create a “snow globe” with their own hands. How to make such a miracle? Let's start by preparing the necessary things. So, you will need:
- Glass jar with a locking lid. It is better that the container is airtight, otherwise you will have to strengthen the screwing point to prevent the craft from leaking;
- Figures to create the main composition - these can be houses, animals, Christmas trees, and so on.
- Glue gun or good super glue.
- Distilled water. If you take an unrefined liquid, it will darken over time, ruining appearance crafts.
- Artificial snow - it can be played by sparkles and finely chopped tinsel. Some even use chopped disposable tableware or polystyrene foam.
- Glycerin - for thickening water. It is he who will help you see how the snow falls in your ball.
- Decorations for the lid.
Let's get started
When all the necessary preparations are completed, you can proceed directly to creating the ball. To begin, thoroughly wash the jar and figurines to create the display. You can even pour boiling water over them. This is done to better preserve the snow globe from the jar. If any bacteria remain on the figures, the craft will quickly become cloudy.
Now start creating a decorative composition on the lid. Wipe wrong side covers sandpaper, so the glue will adhere better. Then treat the surface with glue and install the figure of your choice. Work quickly before the compound dries.
If the base of your figure is very narrow (for example, like a Christmas tree), place a couple of pebbles on the lid, and install the tree between them.
Place the shapes in the center of the lid and do not make them too wide, otherwise they simply will not fit into your “snow globe” with glycerin. When the plot is ready, set the lid aside. The glue must dry completely!
You can also place your figurine on a snowdrift. Cut it out of foam, glue it to the lid and paint it with white paint.
Treat the snowdrift with glue and sprinkle with glitter. A wonderful platform for fairy-tale characters is ready! Now you can place any hero on it. You can create a unique figurine if you mold it yourself from polymer clay.
Preparing the solution and artificial snow
In the question of how to make a “snow globe” with your own hands, the nuance of preparing a solution of the required consistency is very important. Take a jar and fill it three-quarters full with water. Then pour in 2-3 teaspoons of glycerin (you can buy it at the pharmacy and it is very inexpensive). The amount of glycerin determines how slowly the snow falls in the composition. When the solution is ready, the children’s favorite stage begins - loading “snow” into the jar. Carefully place the glitter into your balloon. Their quantity depends only on your desires, but you should not put too many sparkles, otherwise they will cover the entire view of the composition. Gold and silver glitter work best, but you can use any shade.
If you don’t have glitter on hand, a white eggshell will save the day; it needs to be thoroughly crushed, and it will do a great job as snow in a New Year’s craft.
The sparkles must be carefully mixed with a clean spoon and observed their behavior. If you see particles that do not settle to the bottom, carefully remove them. They will continue to float on top of the composition, spoiling its appearance.
Now proceed to the crucial moment - immersing the figurine in water and screwing on the lid. Turn the compositions over and place them in water.
Screw the lid tightly, using a towel to remove any water that has leaked out. To be on the safe side, it is better to apply glue once again along the junction of the jar and the lid.
Decorating the lid
The lid is also worth thinking about. Before you make a “snow globe” with your own hands, prepare everything you need for decoration.
Decorating the lid is not a necessary step, but it will make the ball look complete. The decoration will help hide the joint between the lid and the jar.
Cut a couple of strips from cardboard and glue them into a circle. Cover the stand with gold self-adhesive paper and place the jar in it. This stand can be decorated as you wish.
You can cover the lid with nail polish, wrap it in bright decorative tape, decorate it with felt, or glue small decorative elements: bells, curls. The ball is ready! Shake it and watch the fabulous snowfall.
Making a "snow globe" from a store-bought kit
If you don't really want to search necessary items to create snow New Year's gift, you can create a ball from a ready-made set. They can be found in many stores. The kits can be different: some already have grooves for photographs, others contain clay for creating ceramic figurines. The main thing is to strictly follow the instructions! There are kits in which children must draw and color some of the details themselves. Most often, the decoration is installed on the lid and glued to a dome made of plastic or glass. Then, through a special hole, solution and artificial snow are poured into the ball. The plug from the kit will allow it to be tightly closed.
"Snow globe" without glycerin
Is it possible to create a New Year's surprise without glycerin? And how to replace glycerin in the “snow globe”?
Baby oil can be a good substitute for the substance; it can also thicken water. Or you can create a ball with only water. There is an option to create crafts without any solution at all. Take round Christmas balls with transparent walls. Remove the rope attachment, insert a small figurine and add snow. Place the toy on a stand or decorate a Christmas tree with it.
This magical surprise will be pleasant for both children and adults. Everyone will follow the snowfall of sparkles swirling behind the glass. A gift made with your own hands contains a piece of your soul, and this is very expensive!
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Christmas tree in a jar. You've probably seen such New Year's toys: a glass ball filled with liquid, and inside there is some kind of snow-covered panorama, a house or a tree, and there is an imitation of snowfall. You can do something similar with your own hands.
Let’s call the project “Christmas tree in a jar,” well, I’ll just have a Christmas tree in a jar, and maybe you’ll have something else.
For the project we will need:
1. Jar with a lid.
2. Distilled water.
3. Glycerin (sold at any pharmacy).
4. Ceramic or plastic figurines of animals, trees and figurines of people.
5. Artificial snow crumbly or glitter.
6. Epoxy resin and hardener (you can buy it as a set in the store).
7. Sandpaper.
First of all, you need to make sure that the jar is clean, you can, if you have a round jar, now there are many different shapes, I will have a conical jar. Next, you need to glue the figures, in my case the Christmas tree, to the bottom of the lid. We clean the bottom with sandpaper for better adhesion and glue it epoxy resin Christmas tree The resin is resistant to water and will last a long time, although it has a specific smell, but it will disappear.
Fill the jar itself with distilled water (do not fill the jar to the top). Be sure to add a little glycerin to the water, just a little (although I don’t know what kind of glycerin you have, add a little, if necessary, then add more). Glycerin changes the viscosity and density of water, it will stop our sparkles, our artificial snow, prevent them from falling to the bottom and guarantee our toy the effect of snowfall. Now we add our sparkles, or artificial snow to the jar (very small snow is not necessary for a good effect from large sparkles).
Then we screw in the lid with our Christmas tree, turn the jar over and shake it well. That's it, the Christmas tree is in the jar - it's snowing.
Can be given to a toy additional design install on a pedestal, for example, a plank in the form of a cut of wood. Add to that a couple of animal figures or fairy-tale characters. The lid can also be decorated, painted or covered with something, it is desirable that it be possible to open it, in case you decide to modify the toy, and that’s basically it.
Which one New Year without snow?! After all, this is real fairy-tale magic from heaven! Let's try to become wizards and create a real snowstorm, blizzard, snowfall in a simple jar. Today's New Year's craft is a jar of snow. Using my step-by-step master class with photos, your children can easily make this fabulous winter toy for the New Year 2019, under your supervision, with their own hands.
We will need:
- glass jar - the rounder the better;
- plasticine or New Year's toy(souvenir, figurine);
- glue - any universal or “Moment”;
- glitter, foam, chopped rain or tinsel;
- glycerol;
- water.
How to make a jar of snow with your own hands
First, let's prepare a figurine that will delight us inside a snow jar with glycerin. Any New Year's souvenir or Christmas tree toy of suitable size can serve as such a figurine. For me this is a little young Santa Claus - a symbol of the new coming year.
If you don't have one finished figurine at hand, it can be easily molded from plasticine. For example, even the smallest children can make the simplest Christmas tree or snowman, like the one in my photo, easily and simply. For children it's even more suitable option- if you really do New Year's craft, then do everything yourself! 🙂
And so, remove the lid from the jar. It can be coated with silver nail polish. I painted mine red acrylic paint, under the fur coat of Santa Claus. Glue the figure onto inner side covers. It turned out like this.
Now, prepare the contents for the jar. Pour in glycerin (I bought it at the pharmacy). The more glycerin, the longer the falling snow in the jar will not end and the “snow storm” we created will not stop. It turned out that glycerin took up 1/3 of the volume of the jar. All the rest - pure water(distilled or filtered). Do not fill the jar to the brim; take into account the volume of the figure that will be with snow inside. Now, pour our artificial snow into this water-glycerin solution. The snow effect can be created with glitter, chopped rain or tinsel. Luxurious large snowflakes will come out of crumbled foam. I sprinkled glitter into my winter souvenir. They can be bought at any craft supply store; they are light and small. The chopped rain, with my concentration of glycerin, turned out to be heavy and did not fall so beautifully. Be careful not to overdo it with artificial snow, so that your figure inside the jar will not be visible because the snowstorm is too thick. 🙂
Well, the finale of our handicraft magic is to screw the lid on the jar. Just screw it very, very tightly and check it several times.
Carefully turn it over and... voila! Just before our eyes a fabulous magic jar of snow appears!
Shiny falling snow in a jar of glycerin swirls around the figurine placed inside for a long time, and the children’s delight at a hand-made New Year’s souvenir-gift does not subside. WITH !
It’s not difficult to make it yourself, and almost all of its components can be found at home.
DIY snow globe| Components
- Jar with screw cap. Ideally, the lid should be screwed on tightly. If you take a jar and a lid from ready-made canned food, do not count on it being sealed. I took a jar of compote, so I had to strengthen and seal the threads to prevent leakage.
- Decorations. Christmas tree decorations are well suited for this role. Houses and Christmas trees look especially good with snow on top. I didn’t take this moment into account right away, so I had to take a lot of shots so that Santa Claus’s face wouldn’t be hidden in the snow.
- Glue. Glue is needed to glue the decoration to the lid. Many people praise the glue gun, but I didn’t want to buy one specifically for the snow globe. I made do with a tube of super glue.
- Imitation of snow. This could be fake snow, glitter, or even shredded white plastic utensils. I bought regular silver glitter, but in the process I realized that they didn’t fit color scheme to our ball. It’s not so easy to find artificial snow in a small town, so we had to limit ourselves to homemade “snow” from plastic toy packaging.
Homemade artificial snow
- Glycerol. It is needed so that the “snow” falls slowly. This occurs due to an increase in the viscosity of water. The amount of glycerin depends on the type of “snow” selected. Large snowflakes will require more glycerin. I have a 400 ml jar. It took 4 bottles of glycerin, 25 grams each. With a 1:1 ratio of water and glycerin, snowflakes will float in the water almost without sinking to the bottom.
- Water. If you decide to make a ball for long-term storage or as a gift, then you will need distilled water and some kind of disinfectant for jewelry. There is no guarantee that the jewelry is sterile and that its microbes will not cause cloudiness in the water. For a ball that is not planned to be stored for a long time, any clean, clear water will do. I used tap water. The first time I was unlucky, there was a whitish sediment in the jar, which spoiled the appearance. For the second time, I used pre-settled water.
- Rubber medical gloves. They are needed if you are not sure about the tightness of the lid. Gloves are convenient to use as a sealant for threads.
DIY snow globe| Assembly algorithm
At this stage, the ball is ready, and the next portion of New Year's mood has been received.
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