Galaxy Jars too known as Sensory bottles or calm down jars are fun for kids, just what if your kids, no longer call themselves "kids"?  Only they still love crafts?  This galaxy glitter jars projection is the sensory bottle that is a gorgeous craft for kids of all ages.

DIY Galaxy Jar

Allow's Make a Galaxy Jar

This glowing galaxy in a jar is fun and like shooting fish in a barrel to make – the more "grown-upward"  version of our Counting Stars Glowing Bottle, practice not require mom's involvement (fifty-fifty younger elementary kids can make them independently) and the finished product is great to put on brandish nigh a bed.

Related: Our Counting Stars Glowing Canteen Craft

Follow the easy step by footstep instructions below to make this fun craft filled with layers of cotton wool balls all the different colors of the galaxy nighttime sky.

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Tween Craft Supplies Needed for

  • Clear glass bottle with a lid – drinking glass jar, glass milk bottle, other clear recycled bottle or a mason jar work great
  • Cotton balls – lots and lots of cotton balls
  • Glitter
  • Food Dye
  • H2o
  • Glow in the nighttime paint

How to Make Your Own DIY Milky way Jar Craft

Pace 1

Fill up your bottle half-full with cotton balls.  You will shrink the cotton balls into the bottom of the jar – they volition fill the lower inch of the bottle when you are finished.

Footstep 2

Pour some h2o into the bottle, enough to saturate the cotton balls.

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Pace 3

Drip 2-3 drops of food coloring into your bottle.  Add a squirt of glow paint and a dash of glitter.

Pace iv

Then – practice information technology all once more!  Repeat step instructions: Add more than cotton balls, more than water, sprinkle glitter and glowy juice.

Keep calculation new colors and new layers until your bottle is completely total.

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Tip from Our Experience Making this Fairy Jar Craft

We found that as the layers grow it gets harder and harder to make full the jar.  Using a stiff straw or wooden sticks to tamper the cotton assurance back down  into their layer helps.

Step 5

Put the lid on your bottle deeply.

How to Keep Your Galaxy Jar Fresh & Glittery

As your canteen ages, you lot volition want to rehydrate the cotton fiber balls to keep the blurred "sky await".

Set the canteen on your windowsill to let the glow paint to charge.  As your kids drift to sleep they will see a sky, including a glittery galaxy looking back at them, from their own milky way bottle.

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Galaxy Jar Makes Great Kid Made Souvenir or Group Activity

My tween is making these for all of her friends for  their Homemade Christmas Bandy get together.  She is collecting glass bottles!

Nosotros accept likewise used this galaxy jar craft as a slumber party craft idea. Then everyone can calm down for bed at night {giggle} and accept a gift they made domicile with them the next 24-hour interval to remember the party fun.

Fifty-fifty though a sensory jar would unremarkably be thought of equally a sensory activity for younger kids, older kids – teens and tweens – need stress relief as well! It can be calming to have a coping mechanism like our night galaxy jars equally a calm downwards jar for kids of all ages…pssst…and adults!

Active Fourth dimension xv minutes

Total Fourth dimension 15 minutes

Difficulty Medium

Estimated Cost $5

Materials

  • Articulate glass canteen with a lid – milk bottle, other clear recycled bottle or mason jars work neat
  • Cotton wool balls – lots and lots of cotton wool balls
  • Glitter
  • Nutrient Dye
  • H2o
  • Glow in the dark paint

Tools

  • wooden stick, spoon or strong drinking harbinger
  • cup of water

Instructions

  1. Fill the lesser of the jar with cotton balls until your canteen is ane/2 full.
  2. Cascade some h2o to saturate the cotton balls.
  3. Add together 2-3 drops of food coloring, squirts of pigment and some silver glitter.
  4. Repeat the process over and over again adding new layers of cotton and different color paint and food coloring to give your bottle a nighttime milky way glow.
  5. When necessary use a stick, spoon or straw to push the cotton balls compacting them to the bottom of the bricklayer jar.
  6. Add hat.

Notes

To refresh your galaxy jar in the upcoming weeks, add together some water.

More than Galaxy Crafts from Kids Activities Weblog

  • Make galaxy slime that is colorful and sparkly like the stars at dark.
  • This homemade glitter play doh recipe is a galaxy play dough that is as pretty as it is fun to play with.
  • Here are some fun kids galaxy crafts that you lot don't want to miss!
  • Brand a galaxy night light for your room.
  • Galaxy melted crayon art that turns into really sweet bootleg galaxy valentines.
  • Permit's brand galaxy cookies to eat while we craft!
  • Our milky way lath game is one of the best free printable games for kids!
  • And no milky way would be complete without a solar system model for kids…you lot tin impress and brand that today!

How did your DIY galaxy jar turn out?

Rachel is the founder of the weblog, 1 Crazy Business firm.  She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Simple Scientific discipline Experiments. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and vi children.