Glitter, glitter everywhere!

In honor of Valentine's Day yesterday, I decided to do some arts and crafts with L when I got home from work. I started to cut out a heart, and L declared "No, mama, glitter!" (I love that she loves glitter as much as I do...to poor hubby's dismay). So naturally I pulled out the glitter and remembered a cool pin I had grabbed...

I have seen quite a few of these glitter jars, often used for time outs, which I really dislike since they are so fabulous. But then I found this one on a blog called Chasing Cheerios, which she called Starry Night and she uses it more as a calming tool. Since L LOVES stars, I thought she would really enjoy it.

This blog said to fill the mason jar with warm water, than add in blue glitter, glitter glue and clear clue to help the swirl. We did this one together first, adding blue and silver glitter and glitter glue, and I all too quickly super glued the top on. This took about 4 minutes and the fun was kind of over. It was also a little cloudy, so I wondered if I shouldn't have used the glitter glue, but supposedly that was what caused the 'swirl' of glitter.

So since we still had plenty of time left in our evening, we decided to make another one. Without the guide of the starry night jar, L was free to choose her own glitter colors. I guess L was inspired by our holiday so she started out with pink, red and silver.

This time, we started with water again, but tried baby oil with the glitter instead of glue. We were not impressed, so we dumped it out and started over. Next we added some of the clear glue to the glitter (no glitter glue), but the glitter was just kind of sticking together. So we dumbed it out and started over (reason #27 why it's really important to have a ton of glitter in the house). For the third time, L also expanded her glitter choice and added some of every color - she really enjoyed tapping the glitter in (some did actually make it into the jar...some on her, the counter, the floor, and me, of course). We only had glitter and water in it this time and L really liked this the best, so we capped it off and she was really happy with it!

L was really proud of her glitter jars and couldn't wait to show her daddy when he got home! We call the blue one her starry night jar, and the multi-colored one is her rainbow jar. At breakfast this morning I was told it was time for rainbow jar, and then this evening she remembered the starry night jar, so we brought it upstairs to bed so we could sing "Twinkle, Twinkle" with it. Needless to say, this craft was a big hit and we spent almost an hour with it! And in the spirit of Valentine's Day, hubby even forgave us for tracking glitter all through the house :-)