If you are looking for way to make the coolest night lights for a child’s bedroom or glowing dim lanterns to lighten up a backyard for an evening party, they you’ll love this solution. Fairy Jars use glow-in-the-dark paint to create unusual and beautiful phosphorescent glow lamps for the home and garden. You can paint whatever pattern you like, although many people opt for dots that resemble fireflies.
The glow effect will last virtually forever as long as you use actual glow-in-the dark paint and not a temporary glow stick, like other fairy jar tutorials demonstrate.
What you’ll need to create these glowing jars are:
– Clear Jar
– Glow in the Dark Paint
– Paintbrushes (preferably longer)
– Paper to put paint onto
– School Glue (optional)
– Glitter (optional)
In the first video, you’ll see how this person’s recommended technique for painting the jar to get the desired effect.
The second video also demonstrates how to make the glow jars, but in a slightly different way, by simply using sheets of acetate cut so that they fit inside the jar, rather than actually painting the jar itself.
This DIY project would be a great project with kids! I think they would get a kick out of making them and will love the end result!
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