These turned out beautifully. They take an amazing amount of cotton to look good. I strongly suggest using the jars that have the necklace hooks already on them. They are worth the extra cost.
Instructions:
- One squirt of water with your pipette into the jar.
- One squirt of paint into the jar.
- Optional: One pinch of glitter.
- Mix this all together with the handle of a paintbrush.
- Add bits of cotton balls until all the liquid paint-water is absorbed, pressing down with the handle of the paintbrush.
- Another squirt of water.
- Another squirt of paint.
- Optional: Another pinch of glitter.
- Add bits of cotton balls until all the liquid is absorbed.
- Repeat steps 6-9 until the jar is filled to the top, leaving some room in the neck for the cork.
- Place a dot of hot glue inside the neck of the jar.
- Press the cork firmly into place.
- Wrap some cording around the neck of the jar and tie into place.
- Run a loop of necklace length cording through one or two rapped circles. Tie a know to create your necklace.
There are plenty of resources on the web on how to make nebulae jars. I found the one at PBS Parents especially helpful.
Celestial Spheres Bath Bombs
These turned out terribly. The first recipe a coworker found for me did not work. I took it home to try with my own kids and we were getting all sorts of goop. I did some research and bought supplies for a different recipe. But I didn't have time to try this one before hand. We were getting some interesting chemical reactions. Plus, I think we were using way too much water. Instead of bath bombs we made these ever expanding balls of glop. Pretty interesting in their own right, but not what we were trying for. I had some pretty forgiving parents and children at the program. They just laughed it off. Lesson learned: If you have a program that requires a certain chemical reaction to occur (or not to occur, as was my case), be sure to test it with plenty of time for retesting.
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