 Hello, my name is Carl. I'm a library assistant from the Long Beach Public Library. Today I'll be showing you guys how to make these cool nebula in the jar crafts. If you haven't already signed up for the summer reading program, go ahead and head to longbeach.beanstock.org and sign up. If you have signed up and you want to get credit for this activity, go ahead and use the code nebula and your activity challenge tab. What you need for this craft you probably already have in your house, you will need a jar or container. It needs to be see-through and the size doesn't really matter. But I am going to tell you that the bigger the jar is, the more you're going to have to fill it. So the more activity with that and the more materials you're going to use, obviously. So keep that in mind. You're going to need a straw or a stick to sort of manipulate the cotton balls into the jar. You are going to need cotton balls. You're going to need food coloring or if you have it, watercolor. Glitter or glitter glue and of course, water. The first step to this is you're going to take your cups filled in with water and then you can go ahead and put food coloring into them. It doesn't matter how much water is in the cup because you're going to go ahead and eye how much you're pouring in here anyway. So for this one, I'm actually going to use code and I'm just going to fill it and remember that the color is going to be soaked up. So if you want a really dark pigment, you want to go ahead and put in quite a few drops of food coloring or a watercolor. So once you have all your cups lined up with all the colors you'll be using, you're going to open your jar and you're simply going to pick your first color. Okay, so I'm going to go with this deep purple and I'm going to pour in using my eye. We want to have enough liquid to sort of give us a base. So around there and that's probably a little less than half a cup for this jar. Then my next step is to take my cotton balls and sort of give them a stretch. I don't want them to come apart but I do want them to soak up the maximum amount of water in the jar. So I just want to get them a little bit bigger and a little bit more cloud looking because that's going to create your nebula shape and you're going to drop that in there and you're going to do that to another one and you're just going to keep dropping your clouds in there until it is mostly covered. You can put them in there one at a time or you can put a bunch in there. Then you're going to take your stick or straw, whatever you're using to manipulate your cotton and you're going to give it a shove on down there. And again, you're going to keep adding cotton balls until most of the liquid is soaked out. Not all, just most of it. So here's that and you're just going to smush it down, try to make sure the cotton balls are soaking up as much liquid as they can. It's okay if you poke it and liquid comes out the top. The goal is to get the colors to mix but not to overwhelm each other. We're trying to make layers. So this whole process again, making one more layer for the purple and then we can add our next color. Again, we don't have to be stressed out to the max. You just have to be, this helps you with time, making sure that your immaterial is making sure that your cotton balls cover as much of the genre as possible. Okay, so I think that's a good start. I'm going to go ahead and move on to our second color. So before I do that, I'm actually going to use my glitter glue and you can do this with just regular glitter as well but I learned that if you make use of glitter glue, you can get that glitter to sort of stick to the glass in certain places and it has a nicer effects. Not that regular glitter won't stick to the glass, it totally will but this was just, and it was fun to do. So I'm going to put a layer of glue first for my glitter then I'm going to choose my second color which is this amazing red and I'm going to do about another half a cup and then I'm going to start putting in my cotton balls again. This is a really cute and easy to do craft and then they make great gifts. You can put them on your desk. A lot of people can never guess what they're made out of so they wouldn't guess just regular cotton balls but that's the trick. Don't be afraid if you get the layers mixed or you have one lower. Again, the point really is to get the colors to mix but not overwhelm each other. That's how you get that cool wavy space look. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to add some more paint. I'm not going to add gel. I mean glitter between every layer because then all you would see is glitter on the sides of the glass. So you want to use the glitter probably sparingly and the layers can be different. I'm going to add a little more blue to this one so you can add more water less water for certain colors. Really make it your own and sort of experiment with it. Each one of these jars probably takes a bag and a half of cotton balls so just make sure you have enough on hand and you do want to do it all the way to the top because you don't want any of the colors shifting or anything that you put in there moving so you want it to be jam packed in there when you close the lid. Okay guys so this is what the jar looks like after a couple layers. As you can see the colors are blending nicely even though we started off with a deep purple and then the red they sort of mixed and then we made a deeper purple with our blue and then you can see our gold. On this layer I probably will add some of my other straight up glitter not the glitter glue because you want to have more than one color of glitter. Take me at my word, the more glitter the better. And then I would just add my next color on top of that which I think is going to be this dark red and the glitter will flow in it. I'm going to do probably about another layer just like that and then I'm going to add more cotton balls. Okay, okay. Once you have it to where the top would screw on and you wouldn't be able to see anything else you can go ahead and close it off just like that. And voila, you have your nebula in a jar. Now as this dries and the water moves your nebula will get more and more nebula looking as the water inside the jar dries they will get a tad bit darker. As you see we kind of have this really deep dark space one but they stay cool and you know they can go into any jar you can find. I found this light bob jar at the 99 cent store. So any old jars you have lying around that you can see through this is the perfect craft to repurpose them. Thank you guys for joining me. If you don't remember my code is nebula for those of you who are doing the summer reading challenge for those of you who aren't I encourage you to go sign up today. Have a wonderful summer. Bye bye.