Day 28: 31 Days of Pinterest: Glow Stick Lanterns/Fireflies in a Jar

I've seen a few different pins that use this same idea: break a glow stick, shake the contents into a mason jar, and there you have it.

I decided this would be easy enough to do after a long day of driving and unpacking a car.  (Not sure WHAT I was thinking of trying to do ANYTHING today... I almost skipped today!!!  But decided to persevere!) :)

That said, this WAS really easy.  After all, I had the needed supplies: glow sticks and mason jars.

Braeden and Olivia opted to camp out in the basement tonight.  (Braeden's room is upstairs in a finished attic space and with ONE register it gets REALLY hot during the summer at times, and the basement stays VERY cool - in fact it's SO cool that my Thursday night small group of 3 ladies who come over bring sweatshirts and grab throws on the way to sit down because it's so cold!).  So I made a lantern for them to use while they went to sleep!

Simply gather supplies...

And cut one end open, then shake into the jar.  The inside is much more "liquid" than I would've guessed seeing all the pins on this.  It didn't turn out quite as "splattered" and a lot pooled in the bottom... BUT it did glow!  The picture looks much more like white light than it did in person, but it was actually quite colorful.