Day 40: Space, In A Jar

It's really been a quiet summer. 

There haven't been a lot of sports (except for the little free baseball camp they're both doing), or getaways, or anything. We are just laying low and relaxing, and it's great. 

But I was bored of the lack of adventure today, but I was too lazy to go out anywhere, so I decided it was craft time. 

This was a Pinterest project I had pinned a long time ago, and recently bought the materials for, waiting for a rainy day here. But, it doesn't rain here in the summer, so we did it anyways. 

The idea is to make a "galaxy" in a jar. Or a nebula, or whatever, depending on which Pinterest link you click (instructions below). 

Materials:

- Mason jar 
- cotton balls (LOTS....like 500 for 2 kits)
- paint  (3 different colors, we used neon pink, purple, and blue to make it galaxyish)
- water
- glitter

First, you add water to 1/3 of the mason jar. Then, squirt in a certain color of paint some glitter, and shake. Next, stretch out some cottons balls....tons and tons of cotton balls....and add them to the jar until it begins to surface over the water. Then, add another 1/3 of water and a different color of paint, rinse and repeat. Twice. By the time you have three layers of paint/water/cotton balls, it is totally full and really truly looks like a galaxy!

First layer of Calen's galaxy

Second layer of Cam's...notice the pink...he wasn't pleased until I showed him Google images of pink nebulas

The thing I liked about this project is that it took a lot of time. A lot of the projects it takes 20 minutes to prep and 5 minutes to do. This one took us a solid 45 minutes to complete, but the kids were engaged and had lots of fun. 

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