What You Need:

• Small jar, with lid
• Small rocks
• Glitter
• Plastic toys (optional)
• Seashells (optional)

What You Do:

1. Take the jar and put several rocks in the bottom of it.

2. Pour some glitter--not to much just enough to give a sparkle effect--into the bottom of the jar

3. Add any small plastic toys or seashells into the jar.

4. Fill with water to the top and place the lid over the top, very tightly.

5. Then shake the jar.

6. The glitter will appear as snow in a real snow globe.

7. Great for Mothers Day gifts and christmas presents!

More Ideas

• Small glass jar with lid (baby food jar)
• Baby oil or corn syrup
• Water
• Glitter
• Glue
• Toys or seashells (optional)

1. Fill the jar with baby oil or corn syrup, and a little water.
2. Add glitter
3. Glue toy or seashell to the lid of with glue and put the lid on the jar (seal with glue). (Make sure you use waterproof glue - ADULT assistance required!).
4. When dry, turn the jar upside down and give it a shake.

Variation

This is a variation on Dee Cantrell's lesson plan for snow globes.

Another alternative is to fill the baby jar with water and have children add very fine crayon shavings rather than glitter. The shavings float better than glitter and dont fall as fast, they also look great because you can use lots of diffrent colours.

Glue the figurine on the lid and secure tightly and you then have a colourful snow globe. (Make sure you use waterproof glue - ADULT assistance required!).

This is a great idea for fairs because you can do them in football team colours, with footballers as the figurines which you can get from cake decorating shops.