- Hi, I'm Shay Rudolph.
I play Stacey McGill on "The Babysitter's Club" and today,
I'm going to show you how to make a cool,
woodland terrarium ornament for the holiday season.
(funky music)
I discovered this craft, actually,
I think I was nine or 10 and we made these
with plastic wine glasses, and we just put little presents
and mice and snow inside of them.
The materials that you need to make this ornament are,
first of all, something to put everything in
like a little snow globe, or a mason jar,
or even these really awesome double-sided circular ornaments
or basically just anything that you can glue stuff in
and then, you can see it.
Little mushrooms for fairy gardens, little woodland animals
like a deer or little frogs, some lady bugs and snails.
And also, you're gonna want some greenery
to make it look cool, so like little trees,
or I also have this bag of a bunch of moss.
And I have these little wood stands
that I can put things on, like I can put a little frog.
You also need either a hot glue gun
or just regular schools glue.
If you're gonna use a hot glue gun,
make sure to get parental supervision.
And lastly, a pair of scissors
in case you need to cut anything and also,
get parental supervision for this too.
The first one that I'm gonna do is in this snow globe.
I'm just gonna use it like a little terrarium.
So it just has a cap that you screw off
and then, another piece like this.
I'm gonna glue everything on this piece
and then, I can just stick it back in.
The way to find really cool little mushroom pieces
like this is gonna literally any craft store, and just going
in this fairy garden section, which is my favorite.
I think I'm gonna take some of the regular green moss,
and I'm gonna just, it just looks really nice and fluffy.
I'm gonna use a hot glue gun, get your parents to help you
with this one, or at least watch you.
You can just put it on the plastic or you can put it
on the moss, and be careful not to burn your fingers.
See, so I have a little blob here.
I'm just gonna keep taking pieces
of this moss and gluing it down.
With hot glue, you have to work kind of quickly.
So that's the bottom of this little ornament,
nice and mossy and green.
I'm going to put the mushroom on.
Just gonna put hot glue all over the bottom of this.
Once you get it onto the moss,
maybe just hold it down for a little bit, so that it stays.
What if I put a snail on top of the mushroom?
(gasps) Oh my gosh, that's so cute.
I also have these little snowballs.
Just gonna fill that up.
(gasps excitedly) These little snowballs!
I have was really cute little terrarium,
and you can shake it around and there's snow.
So that's my first one.
Now, I'm gonna use this Mason jar and I found these
at the craft store and they're just made out of plastic.
So they're really and lightweight.
It's gonna be a little bit harder because it's a jar.
So I'm gonna have to keep sticking everything
inside of there, but again, I'm gonna put some moss
down at the bottom and then start adding things in.
I have these little trees, this is the tiniest one,
so I think I'm gonna try to put this in here.
I'm just putting glue on the bottom of the tree,
and I'm just holding it in for a few seconds
to make sure that the glue sticks.
So now, I have my tree in there.
And I'm gonna use this little deer, look how cute it is.
For this, I'm just gonna have to put a few little dots
on the bottom of the deer's feet.
I could add a little bit of snow.
It's looking so cute.
I have this really awesome, white sparkly cord
that I can add this around the edge,
and make it even more snowy and festive.
So I think I'm gonna do that.
I'm just gonna add one little dot of glue
in one spot to start it, don't burn yourself.
And then as you're going around,
you don't need to put glue on the whole thing.
You can just put dots around it like that.
Make sure it stays and then, just keep going around.
And now, the lid of my mason jar has this really pretty,
snowy cover around the edges.
And here is my mason jar terrarium with my cute little deer,
and the tree, and all the moss and everything.
The last one that I'm going to make is this clear ornament.
It is so cool, you can take it apart
and put stuff inside of it.
I got these sparkly paper circles.
I think you can use them in whatever way you want to,
but I thought it would be super cool if I glued one side
of the ornament on here so then,
it had a glittery background and then,
I made a terrarium with this.
Instead of making it flat, because then if you wanna use it
as an ornament it'll all be just sideways.
you can glue stuff on the back like this.
I really like this green moss 'cause it's just all fluffy
and nice so I'm gonna put that down on the bottom like this.
Now that the bottom half of my glittery circle is covered
in moss, I think for this one as well, I'm gonna add
some frogs because they're absolutely adorable.
I'm going to take this frog 'cause he's sitting up
if you can see him, very cute.
So for this part, you cut it and then boom,
you have just a regular old frog.
They're just gonna be chilling on the moss.
I think I also want to add a little ladybug
on this one 'cause they're pretty cute.
To add the frog on, instead of putting it on the bottom
of this frog like I would for anything
where it was standing straight up, I'm going to add it
on the back of the frog because it has to glue like that.
So now, I have a lady bug and a frog.
This frog is adorable 'cause he's laying down on his hands,
just pondering about the world, daydreaming.
So I added some more moss to make it going up a little bit.
So I think if I add him right there,
then he can be like chillin' with his frog friend.
Now that I have a bunch of frogs and snails
and ladybugs chillin' on some moss,
I can now glue down the actual ornament part of it.
Kinda have to add it all around the edge at once,
and work really quickly and then, just put it down.
Otherwise, it will dry.
And it's okay if it gets a little messy.
So this is what I ended up with,
and you can just add some ribbon through the top of this
to make it be an actual ornament.
I think Stacey, my character on "The Baby Sitter's Club,"
she'd probably put an Eiffel Tower,
instead of the snow globe or something like that.
But it doesn't have to be a little mushroom,
or snails, or fairies, or anything
like that if that's not what you like.
You can just put in whatever interests you
and personalize it to what you like,
which I think is a really fun part about it.
I hope that if you try this at home, you have so much fun.
And now, you've learned a new winter craft that you can do.
Thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a really happy holiday season.
See ya next time, bye.
(spray can spritzes and rattles)