Had I had my way, we would have planned out themes for the globes with little diagrams, searched out suitable figurines and laminated little drawings.
Luckily the kids had other ideas.
The kids made shapes out of Fimo, which I barely had time to bake before they got thrown into two empty jars. (You can get sparkly Fimo now too! Ace!)
Then they poured lots of glitter and stars into their jars, topping it all up with water. I had the chance to add some value to their project by measuring out 3 teaspoons of glycerine into each jar, and offering lots of encouragement.
Snowglobes in under three minutes? You betcha! (Excluding Fimo baking time, mind you.)
Go rebel children!
So I’m afraid I don’t have the tutorial which I had planned for you, or even photos of the work in progress (it was all so quick I didn’t even get the chance to find where the camera was)… But I do have these cute pics of two very proud children holding their creations (one of them while also eating a museli bar), and what could be better than that?
This mama is very proud of her children’s punk rock attitude to craft. Hooray!
XX BQ
*The kids got inspired for this project by Pip’s piece on crafty jars in the current issue of Frankie and Paintergirl’s stories of making snowglobes when she was a little girl. Awww…
