Build Your Own Snow Globe, Do it Yourself

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By Nicholas Skeba


Bring out your inner child and build your own gadgets. I used to make snow globes when I was a child, and I couldn't resist to make my own snow globe once again. What better way to tell your better half that you love them with your own built snow globe?

1. Things you will need: Glitter, Hot Glues. Baby Food Jar, Mineral Oils, and silicone sealer. It sounds like a lot of stuff, but everything is vital to making the proper snow globe. If you know ways to get away with substituting materials, then so be it.

2. First take your baby food jar, or just any glass jar with a lid will work.

Choose just exactly what you are going to put inside your jar. This could be anything, though recommended are anything that can put with the water that will be put inside the jar. Usually plastic and aluminum objects will work the best. Plastic snowman anyone?

3. We need to get that object glued into the inside of the lid. Take your hot glue and glue it in. This keeps our object from moving when we shake the snow globe.

4. Put glitter inside the glass globe. This will be our snow. Though some have recommended using eggs shells, I find that if you want a globe you can use for years and years, it is much better to use glitter than egg shells.

5. Time to fill in the fluid. Full the jar in with mineral oil. Remember that our object in the lid that we glued is going to take up some volume inside the glass jar. Too much mineral oil and everything is going to spill out.

6. Time for the silicone. Squeeze the sealer around the threads of the jar. Now seal the lid onto the glass jar and our project should be complete! Enjoy your snowglobe.


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trakker14  says:
2 years ago

What a marvelous idea...you are truely clever!!

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Art  says:
10 months ago

Looks great! For a more classic, vintage look, check out the snow globe kits (easy to make) at http://www.snowdomes.com

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