Lately Beatrice has been having occasional bouts of anxiety where she needs help relaxing. Last week I made her this glitter jar and it's been incredibly effective at helping her with meditative breathing - now every time she gets upset she asks for her glitter jar and lies down and stares at it until she calms down.
I found the idea for these glitter jars on Pinterest (here, among other places). All you do is fill a glass jar with boiling water, food coloring, a few tablespoons of clear hair gel*, and about a tablespoon of glitter. The hair gel makes the glitter fall very slowly through the water (similar to the glycerin we used in the snow globes). Highly recommended!
I found the idea for these glitter jars on Pinterest (here, among other places). All you do is fill a glass jar with boiling water, food coloring, a few tablespoons of clear hair gel*, and about a tablespoon of glitter. The hair gel makes the glitter fall very slowly through the water (similar to the glycerin we used in the snow globes). Highly recommended!
* Some sites recommended clear glue instead of hair gel but when I tried that the glue didn't dissolve, it just clumped up on the bottom.
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