Learn how to make waterless snow globes. These snow globes are easy to make even for kids.
Two weeks ago I visited See Vanessa Craft with a Waterless Snow Globes Tutorial for the 20 Crafty Days of Christmas. I just love how the Waterless Snow Globes turned out, that I figured I should show them off here too. Enjoy the tutorial my friends.
Waterless Snow Globes
With Christmas and winter approaching I can’t help but think about the snow that will be arriving in no time at all.
My daughters LOVE snow globes, they each own a couple of them. The only problem with snow globes is that they are heavy to carry because of the water.
My girls love to carry them around to play with them but each time I’m worried they will drop them because of their weight.
Since they love them so much, I decided that we would make waterless snow globes together. They will be able to carry them around as they wish.
We ended up making four waterless forest-style snow globes together.
We had so much fun creating our waterless snow globes. It’s such a quick and inexpensive project.
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How to make Waterless Snow Globes
Supplies:
- Containers or Mason Jars
- Shredded Snow
- Decorations (things to put inside the snow globes) – Bottle Brush Trees
- Hot glue gun
Instructions:
Step 1: Take off the lids from your containers and hot glue your decorations onto the lid.
Make sure you do not place your decorations too close to the sides otherwise you won’t be able to twist the lid back onto the container (it happened to Emanuelle’s snow globe and we had to pull off the moose.. which caused us to break its legs in the process.. thank goodness for superglue hehe).
Step 2: Pour some shredded snow inside the containers, as much or as little as you want.
Step 3: Twist the lid back onto the container. Now you can flip it over and enjoy your waterless snow globe!!
Here are all the steps together.
Easy enough right?
My girls LOVE them, they have been having fun moving them around as they please.
We are probably going to make some more too! They are just so fun to make!
How to add small items into a snow globe
If you have smaller items that you would like to add to a waterless snow globe, you can add little wood blocks to make the items higher in order to see them.
My daughter had little deer, a small sign, and a little feed bag she wanted to put in a snow globe. The items were too small to see them because of the lid.
To solve her problem, she painted small wood blocks in white. In white to match the snow.
Once dried, she hot glued them on the lid and glued her small items on them.
And voilà her new waterless snow globe with deer!
Isn’t it cute?
She was so proud of it that she entered it into a snow globe contest and won.
Have you ever made a waterless snow globe before? What things did you put inside?
P.S. If you are looking for more easy Christmas projects, I have a DIY Christmas section full of ideas!
Have a FABULOUS day!!
Julie
Sunday 20th of December 2020
How sweet, and much lighter without the water - brilliant!
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Sunday 20th of December 2020
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Saturday 19th of December 2020
Merry Christmas Christina - your snow globes are So pretty! I'm happy to feature you at this week's Inspire Me Monday Party at Create With Joy! :-)
Lisa | Handmade in Israel
Tuesday 15th of December 2020
How lovely! I am sure these were a lot of fun to make. #happynowlinkup
Amy Johnson
Monday 14th of December 2020
Such a cute idea!