Create a colorful sun catcher made from glue and a plastic lid. The kids will love helping with this project!
Here’s another fun glue project – How to Make Floam! One of our favorite easy crafts for kids.
Colorful Sun Catcher from Glue
This sun catcher is totally fun, but you will have to wait several days for it to dry. That makes this a perfect weekend project. Do the first part of the project on one weekend, and the following Friday afternoon finish it up!
This is a great recycled craft using a plastic lid from yogurt, cottage cheese, coffee can, or just about anything with a clear plastic lid!
What You’ll Need:
- White craft glue
(or school glue) - Plastic lid (cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, etc)
- Liquid food coloring
- Toothpick
- Embroidery floss
- Needle (Parents handle this if creating with young kids)
- Pony beads
- 3 (4-hole) buttons
Head over to my tutorial for this Colorful Glue Sun Catcher on Kix Cereal.
Check our more fun suncatcher ideas like our adorable watermelon suncatcher, a candy corn suncatcher, or our easter egg suncatcher!
This post originally appeared here on Jul 30, 2014.
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Nicole says
This looks lovely and doesn’t have too many materials either.
Tiffiny says
How hot are the outside temperatures where you live? I’m concerned the glue would actually melt in a desert climate.
Amanda Formaro says
Hi Tiffiny! Actually we’ve had a pretty mild summer with temps in the 70s and 80s. I have had this sun catcher handing in my front living room window since I made it and it’s still doing fine. That particular window gets full afternoon sun and if I don’t close the drapes in the afternoon it gets pretty hot in the room! I was worried about it melting too, but there have been no physical changes to it at all :)