DIY Snowglobe Ornaments

This Christmas the boys and I have had several crafty fun times. One of my favorite times was creating these snowglobe ornaments. They're really easy to make and are really inexpensive. They're made from juice can lids (the frozen from concentrate cans in the freezer section), scrapbook paper, plastic soda bottles, and some crafty embellishments.

Here's What You'll Need: knife, empty coke plastic bottle, juice can lid, drill, ribbon, glitter and glue or nail polish, scrapbook paper, scissors, 2" circular punch (optional), embellishments for inside your snowglobe (I used mini bottle brush trees and ceramic figurines, plus fake snow).

Here's What You'll Do:

Step 1: Gather the aforementioned supplies.

Step 2: Cut down your empty coke plastic bottles. You'll want to make it as even as possible. I used a serrated kitchen knife and it worked really well. You can recycle the bottom part of the bottle but keep the top along with the cap.



Step 3: With a power drill, drill a small hole into the top of the lid. Go all the way through the plastic and be sure your hole is large enough for your ribbon or string to go through.

Step 4 & 5: Use glue to coat the entire top and sides of the bottle's cap, then use glitter to coat the surface. An easier alternative is to use a bottle of nail polish. I had several that had glittery shimmerly colors, but then I embellished it by adding extra glitter (the nailpolish acts as your glue). It's really easy since the nailpolish already comes with a mini brush!

Step 6: String the ribbon or twine through the hole you drilled in the top of the bottle cap. I added a bit of hot glue to the cap to make sure the string would stay in place. You want this ribbon to be your ornament loop so make sure you have enough of a loop to be able to hang it on your tree.

Step 7: Punch or cut out a circle for each side of your metal juice can lid.

Step 8: Glue the scrapbook or patterned paper circle onto each side of your metal juice can lid.

Step 9: Glue the snowglobe embellishments onto the top of your juice can lid.

Step 10: Using fake snow, glitter, or anything else you'd like, place some into the top of your bottle cap. Then carefully (or else you'll have a mess) turn the bottle top over and place it on top of the juice can lid. Hot glue around the edges, adhering the bottle onto the juice can lid. Try to be neat about it, but you'll be covering the edge in ribbon anyway so make sure you have a good bond.

Step 11: Wrap (while hotgluing) the bottom and/or the top around your bottle cap with some pretty ribbon. Embellish it however you'd like. It really helps to do the bottom with a ribbon edge since it hides any sloppy hotgluing work!

Step 12: Hang it on your tree and enjoy!