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I have done projects making flowers out of paint dots. I used Q-tips to dot the paint. Works great!
What colour did you use to paint the jars?
Hi Amalie,
This jar is not the one I did. This was the inspiration for my fun experiments here: http://hobbiesonabudget.com/2012/01/25/glow-in-the-dark-flowers/ Best of luck! Sharon
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Tried the glow in the dark jars. Bought glow in the dark paint at craft store dotted the INSIDE of jar with the paint as I wanted to put lids on jar and leave outside in sun for night time. Did not work no glow after sitting in sun all day. So aree the dots suppose to be on the outside of the jar ?? Any help appreciated
it would be easy to paint the inside or a jar if you use a paper clip and a pencil erase. Undo it and stick it into an eraser. Then you can dip the eraser into the paint, You can bend and then re-bend the paperclip in another direction to get it throughout the jar. And then you can use another size eraser (or shape one) for different sized “stars”. That way you don’t really have to wait for the paint to dry before handling the jar.
DId this with my 1st graders. We used a water bottle instead of a mason jar. It was harder to shake the brush, but worked ok. They still said that I was a genius! You woulda thought we made diamonds! Thanks for this idea!
SJZ – I wonder if you could roll the cheap glass decorative marbles from HL? I wasn’t sure if you meant actual marbles, in that case I’d have to search high and low. Thinking of ways to hang these jars on shepherd’s hooks in the backyard.
There isn’t a picture of the mirror. Would love to see a finished product
[...] been fascinated with glow in the dark jars for several weeks. So I decided to try my own glow in the dark approach – painting flowers [...]
I LOVE the ideas here!! Very creative!!!
As an old tole painter, we learned to make dots by using the opposite end of an art-brush. If you used different size art brushes, your dots would vary, accordingly. At least the dots would not smear as easily as using the brush-ends…
I love the idea of bringing the stars into the backyard. Beautiful!
Exposing the glow in the dark paint to light should make it glow fairly consistently during the night. My son has glow in the dark stickers on his wall. If all else fails, you now have a use for that blacklight you bought during high school.
How long does the glow-in-the-dark paint last? Can you hold it up to the light then make it glow a great number of times or does the effect wear off quickly?
Hmmm…. I don’t actually know since I’ve never made this craft. I’m in the process of finding some of the paint so I can try this myself and then of course I’ll post the results!
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Question about the glow in the dark mason jars (sorry, lame questions I know). 1) do you paint the inside or the outside? 2) once you paint them, what kind of dots do you add and how? Inside or outside? Would love to try this, they’re beautiful!
You dab the glow in the dark paint on with you paint brush to make the dots. That’s what gives it the “stars” effect. Painting the outside would be best I think, otherwise you have to find a paint brush with an extremely short handle and you’ll end up with paint all over the back of your hand.
I believe you would paint dots on the outside with the glow-in-the-dark paint. Using the end of a new eraser dipped in the paint would make fairly consisitant dots, or you could just use the tip of a round paint brush.
Be sure to expose the painted jar to light in order for it to glow.
(I was thinking of rolling marbles in a small container of the paint, let them dry, then put them in the jar.)
Where do you get glow in the dark paint?
Not sure Michelle, This was a guest author who featured this amazing craft! I would guess though that a paint store or craft store would be able to point you in the right direction. Isn’t this a cool idea though?
You can get glow in the dark paint at Hobby Lobby. Its in the wearable art section. It comes as FABRIC paint. Tulip makes a great brand, but there are many others as well.
Glow in the dark paint is sold at Lowe’s, Home Depot,etc.
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LOVE the crayon wreath…something like that would be so fun to give to the teachers I know
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