Fish Tank Aquarium Fun - Recycled Glass Jar

My three year old daughter and I created this Fish Tank aquarium using Recycled Glass Jar. We created it after seeing these Five little pumpkins made by Polly and her kids on Helping Little Hands Blog. Actually she was inspired by the Mason jar pumpkins made by Emily on Not So Idle Hands.

Materials Used:

Wide Glass Jar
Blue Tissue Paper
Gloss-Lustre Mod Podge
Thick Paint Brush
Recycled Styrofoam container to mix up mod podge
Sticko Stickers Pkg-Funky Fish(PS: I got these stickers from Wal-mart)
Light up Bouncy Ball/LED Tea Light

Steps Overview:

Cut the Tissue paper into 1.5 or 2 inches wide strips. Measure the height of the Glass jar and cut the tissue paper strips to that size.


We thinned Mod podge my mixing a small portion of it with water in a Styrofoam container. There is my little one mixing the mod podge. She has great fun in mixing.


Paint Mod podge onto outside of the glass Jar in small sections as shown below


Lay down a strip of tissue paper and smooth it down well. Then, move onto the next section. It may appear wrinkly but it doesn't show up once it's dry.


Keep overlapping tissue papers and continue till you get the whole jar covered. Apply a layer of mod podge around the neck of the bottle and wrap around a strip of tissue paper. Let it dry for 24 hrs. Then brush on a coat or 2 of Mod Podge to give a glossy finish. Let it dry.

Now sticky time. Get your fish stickers out.


I let my daughter to play around. She stuck the fish stickers and bubbles as per her fish Wish:-)


Fish Tank Aquarium is ready!!





Coming to the glowing part. First I made the aquarium to glow by tilting the below electric candle inside the bottle. But it was not kid friendly, just a temporary solution and it was heating up the bottle.





Finally we lighted it up with a Light up Bouncy ball, a kid friendly manner!!