Kid Craft - "the Littles" Beach Jars

This is from my friend Lisa (I shared her button flag art for the Fourth of July, click here for that post), she does all kinds of fun stuff with her nieces ("the littles") every week and she shared these photos with me after I posted the beach terrarium I made last week (click here for that post). I like how these turned out so much I asked if I could share them with you - take inspiration wherever you find it and then make it your own!

from Lisa:

Here are the littles beach in a jar! I though you would like to see the project. The littles has a blast and thought it was so fun with all the shells. Thanks for idea.

PS: She also said "Hobby Lobby and Michaels love to see me walk in, goodness!" hahahaha. Ditto for me Lisa LOL.

And our sweet dog Brooke felt like she needed to craft and chewed up the star fish!

Beach Terrarium

Made this easy terrarium to put on the picnic table to hold down the tablecloth - I have some little fish clips that are supposed to hold the edges down but it still flies around so I needed something heavier in the center of the table. I used a jar with a lid so it can sit out even in the rain, one less thing to have to bring in.

This is so simple: I layered tan sand from the dollar store with white sand, then put in a beachy figurine and 2 fake plants that I thought looked sort of like they'd grow at the beach. To finish I put a few small shells in the front - at first I had a bunch of shells in there but didn't like how it looked, I had to use long tweezers to pull all but 3 shells out without disturbing the plants and figurine.

This went for a 3 hour car ride on the floor of the front seat and arrived in perfect condition - I was worried the sand would settle and mix together but it didn't move. Cute, right?

one year ago: knock-off Topopo Salad

two years ago: Mark and LeDonna made Yard Yahtzee