Give your garden party an intimate ambiance by creating sun and moon jars.  Besides their chic, rustic look, sun and moon jars are easy to use because they are solar powered.  Once you make them,  leave them out in the sun during the day and watch them glow beautiful colors at night.  Essentially sun and moon jars are the same thing, they just glow different colors.  While typically moon jars are blue and sun jars are yellow, you can create whatever color jar you want by using colored tracing paper.

Even if you’re not throwing a garden party, these jars make beautiful outdoor decorations.  Use sun jars to light up the walk way to your house or stick moon jars around the pool for a soft glow during your swim.  Ready to make them?  Here’s how:

Materials:

• Garden Solar Lights: Try finding these at a hardware store like The Home Depot
• Glass jars with a clear lid.  You can find these at stores like Ikea or Hobby Lobby
• AA rechargeable batteries
• Screw driver
• Utility Knife
• Blu-Tack or other sticky adhesive
• Glass Frosting Spray or colored tracing paper

Instructions:

1. Use a utility knife and a screwdriver to take apart the insides of the garden solar lights.
2. Using some Blu-Tack, paste the insides together and stick them onto the inside of the jar’s lid
3. Spray the outside of the jar with glass frosting spray, or fill the inside with colored tracing paper that’s been cut to size.  For moon jars use blue paper and for sun jars use a soft yellow color.  Feel free to branch out and try other colors.  I plan to make green, pink and orange ones, too!
4. Once the insides of the solar light is secured to the lid, close the jar and you’re ready to go!
5. To use your new sun and moon jars, place them outside or near a window where they can soak up the sun. This allows them to capture the sunlight and glow all night long.

How will you use your new sun and moon jars?

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I just decided that I’m going to start a vegetable garden this summer. With the high cost of fruit and vegetables, I’m hoping that it will pay off to grow a little of my own produce. I haven’t done any gardening for years, so all of the sudden I’m getting really into it! Not only is gardening a great green activity, but garden crafting is also a way to get the family together outside. I love these tips to decorate your garden while saving money from our tips on summer crafts with your kids. Check these out:

Windsocks are easy projects that only require a few materials:

You can make your very own windsock with just some colored paper, decorative ribbon and clothespins to hang it from. Your kids can help you decorate your windsock while you cut the ribbon. Click here for the blowin’ in the wind windsock project idea. 

Use what you’ve got:

If you have extra paint (that doesn’t stain!) let your kids decorate the fence around the vegetable garden with it. They can make their own signs to label what you’re growing too with just some colored markers and paper. If you have extra clay around the house, let them make their favorite animals in clay to put on the patio or in the garden. If you have an abundance of green clay, try making these cute clay turtles!

Make your garden unique and whimsical:

Add your own personal touch to your garden that will make your garden your own. Forget buying that expensive garden gnome! Try something like this bees and hive outdoor decor made out of terra cotta saucers.

How cute are these? This is going to be my new craft project with my little cousins this weekend. I better start planting soon!

For more summer crafting ideas with kids check out our page at FaveCrafts.com.

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