Crafty Wednesday

Charlotte loves snow globes. She wanted every one she saw over the Christmas holidays. Luckily, our little Elf Shakey, left her and Harrison one for Christmas. That was a Christmas one though and well, he's packed away. Mean Mommy. 


We have a snow globe in our living room. It's one I gave Andrew years ago. Charlotte looks at it fondly most days and says she wishes she could have one. She asked the other day if we could make one. Sure I said. While I didn't know how to make one, I knew where to find out. After a couple of searches on the Internet, I knew what we had to do.

Basically, all you need is a clean jar, water, a hot glue gun, glitter and a figurine. We pretty much had everything except a figurine. After a meltdown in the dollar store yesterday, we (or rather I) decided we did have one in the house and looked though her many bins of odds and ends for said figurine. It was decided we'd use her Olivia figurine for the snow globe.


So, this afternoon having everything we needed, away we went.

Olivia and all the components

A couple of websites suggested using floral foam in the base. So, that's what we did. We attached the foam to the jar lid using hot glue. We then set Olivia into the foam and adhered it using hot glue. NOTE: Make sure that you securely attach the figurine so that it doesn't come adrift when shaking. 

For people with kids who are familiar with the TV Show.... I kept hearing the theme song "Olivia, Olivia...."

Once your figurine is attached, fill your jar with cold (warm may get cloudy) water. Leave about a 1cm gap at the top. Next add the glitter. We added about 1/2tsp of glitter (a combination of silver, red, and white).

Carefully adding the glitter

Next, add hot glue around the inside of the jar lid and then attach the lid and tighten. If desired, add ribbon or glitter to the outside of the lid and voila. A snow globe. Just shake and away you go.

"Olivia, Olivia...."