Supplies:
• Clear glass bottle with a lid
• Cotton balls – lots and lots of cotton balls
• Glitter
• Food dye and water
• Glow in the dark paint
How to make galaxy jars:
• Fill your bottle half-full with cotton balls. Compress the cotton balls – they will fill the lower inch of the bottle when you are finished.
• Pour some water into the bottle, enough to saturate the cotton balls.
• Drip two to three drops of food colouring into your bottle. Add a squirt of glow paint and a dash of glitter.
• Then – do it all again! Add more cotton balls, more water, more glitter and glowy juice.
• As the layers grow it gets harder and harder to fill the jar. Using a stiff straw to tamper the cotton balls back down into their layer helps.
• Keep adding new colours and new layers until your bottle is completely full. Put the lid on your bottle securely. As your bottle ages, you will want to rehydrate the cotton balls to keep the blurred “sky look”.
• Set the bottle on your windowsill to allow the glow paint to charge. As your kids drift to sleep they will see a sky, including a glittery milky way looking back at them, from their galaxy bottle.
These make great gifts for your kids’ friends and it’s a great way to upcycle glass jars and bottles.
Source: www.kidsactivitiesblog.com.
