How to Make Snow Globes

This month during our Art Club meeting, we made some hanging globes and snow globes using easy to find materials. I will create another post on how to make the hanging globes.  

How to make Snow Globes:

Materials: 
Cereal Boxes
Snow (Mixture of Fine Salt and Extra Fine Glitter)
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)

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Step 1: Trace your clear plastic drinking cup onto a cereal box or other type of thin cardboard. We used M&M , Pasta, and Bisquick boxes. 

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Step 2: Cut out your circle(s)

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Step 3: Glue doily to cardboard circle

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Step 4: Use Hot Glue to attach a miniature figurine onto the center of your doily that has been glued to a cardboard circle. 

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Step 5: Pour salt and extra fine glitter into your clear plastic cup. 

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Step 6: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup.

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 Step 7: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup. 

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Step 8: Flip snow globe over and attach pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass. 

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Congratulations, you are done! Now you can gift these to your family, friends, co-workers! 

Student Work Examples: 

JMS Art Club

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