Things you need:
A glass jar with a tight fitting lid (think you don’t have any… look in your fridge! Jam, salsa, pickles, etc. all come in jars perfect for this project!)
Water
Baby oil or mineral oil
Hot glue gun
Something you’d like to display, that fits inside the jar
Decorative bits: glitter, fake snow (crushed egg shell works well), small beads, etc.
Just a note: If you’re worried about your items rusting or loosing their color in the water… just hit them with a coat of clear nail polish and make sure they’re completely dry before submerging.
Take the lid off your jar and begin building your scene on it using the hot glue. You need your “scene” to be really stable since you will potentially be shaking it around, so try to build a sturdy base for your pieces. It’s easiest if your figure can stand up on its own. The shape of the snake I used was a little awkward so I had to kind of mound hot glue around it and then cover the mound with beads. Leave it to me to make things more complicated than necessary.
So once you’ve gotten your figure or scene or whatever affixed to the inside of the lid, fill the jar up with water… leaving about 1/4 inch at the top. Now add in some baby oil or mineral oil. This makes the snow/glitter/other stuff fall more slowly and creates slow moving bubbles in the water. I put in about two teaspoons, but you can put in more.
Drop in your snow/beads/glitter/stuff.
Now screw the lid on extra tight (you might want to seal it off with hot glue).
Turn it right side up and you’ve got yourself a custom made snow globe jar!
Snow Globe