Galaxy Jars
Kids will love this out-of-this-world Galaxy in a Jar craft. Sensory jars are as calming as they are beautiful.
Servings 3 jars
Equipment
- 3-8-ounce plastic cups
- Wooden craft sticks
Ingredients
- 3 ombre colors of acrylic paint
- 3 Mason jars a plastic jar is great for small children
- Large cotton balls
- Regular glitter you can also use glitter glue if you have it on hand
- Chunky glitter
- Glitter stars
- water
Instructions
- Add water to each glass jar until it’s about ¾ full. Put 4 or 5 drops of the paint in each glass and stir with a popsicle stick. Use a separate popsicle stick for the dark, medium, and light colors. Add 1 or 2 more drops of paint, if needed, to deepen the colors in each jar.3 ombre colors of acrylic paint, 3 Mason jars, water
- Stretch the cotton balls.Large cotton balls
- Put the cotton balls in the jar, filling each one ¼ of the way with cotton balls.
- Pour just enough of the darkest color of purple paint into each jar to soak the cotton.
- Add some of the glitter and stars to each jar.Regular glitter, Chunky glitter, Glitter stars
- Use a popsicle stick to spread the glitter over the cotton balls and around the sides of the jars.
- Repeat steps 2-6 with the medium purple paint and water mixture.
- Repeat steps 2-6 with the light purple paint and water mixture. After adding the final layer of glitter, put the lids on the jars to seal them.
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Notes
Make sure you add enough cotton to the jars (especially on the sides) to prevent the colors from bleeding into each other.
The jars should be almost completely full of cotton.
When you spread the glitter with the popsicle stick, be careful not to mix up the paint colors, which will muddy the Ombre effect.
While we used shade of purple, you could also use a variety of pinks.
For best results, use a light paint, dark paint, and then a color in the middle.
For a glow-in-the-dark option, you can carefully insert a glow stick.