My daughter who is in 2nd grade came home with a project. The project was that they had to come up with a product that they had to build by themselves. They had a list of ideas to choose from. (From what the teacher told me, her students from past years had came up with some crazy impractical ideas, and I am happy they had this list because my daughter would be one of those creative "lets build a roller coaster" kinda kids). They were to advertise there product and pretend to "sell" it to their classmates. It was actually pretty neat because they had to figure out how much it would cost to produce each product. Then come up with a practical selling price. So, my daughter chose "Snow Globe"....... so, with my creative mommy talents, stuff around the house and a little bit of research we came up with this actually pretty neat and easy snow globe idea!
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| And viola.....this is our homemade "beach theme" snow globe!!! |
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| Closer look. |
My daughters theme obviously was a beach themed snow globe. But, I thought how cute would it be to make one of these opposed to a paper birthday card, so I came up with this cute cupcake themed globe with real sprinkles!
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| I don't know why my camera is coming out backwards, but it says "So Sweet" |
Supplies Used:
- I used 2 small clear plastic plates (found at the local Dollar Tree)
- Handy dandy pre-heated glue gun (best investment I use my glue gun more than I'd like to admit) extra glue sticks.
- Scrap book paper (but any paper will work.)
- Stickers (I had a whole lot of scrapping stickers that worked great for this project)
- Pencil to trace the plates onto the paper.
- Micro beads (Found at any craft store) When using these little beads be aware that those little stinkers get everywhere. And the static makes them stick to everything.
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| Trace your plate onto the paper with pencil. |
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| Cut out the paper. You might have to tweak the paper once you cut it out so it fits in the plate perfectly. |
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| Hot glue the paper directly onto the plate. |
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| Add stickers, pictures, cut-outs and anything you can come up with. Then add sprinkles, sparkles or micro beads. (Caution this can get messy, I went a little over board with the sprinkles and they spilled all over my dining room floor.) |
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Glue the edge of the second plate and stick it onto the other plate.
There you go, a diy "Snow Globe".
Happy crafting :-)
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