Make this adorable Mini Glass Jar Sea Aquarium using the handful of beach day souvenirs (seashells, seaweed, sea glass etc) from day trips to the coast. It needs to be completed over a couple of days due to drying times but once finished you have an adorable keepsake ornament for your home. I used Gorilla Glue Clear that was sent to me for the purpose of trying it out on a craft project. The great thing about Gorilla Glue Clear is that it dries clear and sticks pretty much everything making it perfect for this kind of project. The only thing to bear in mind is the drying time of 2 hours (although depending on what you’re don’t have to wait this long for every step
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To Make The Mini Glass Jar Sea Aquarium You Will Need
Sea Shells, small pebbles, seaweed, beads, sea glass or water ever other treasures you find
Coloured crafts sand (I used fluorescent blue, yellow and green)
Gorilla Glue Clear – UK Amazon
Small glass jar
Wooden skewers
Old small paintbrush (white spirit to clean unless you’re throwing it away
1) Using a paintbrush paint the area of your sea using the Gorilla Glue making sure you don’t go to high up as you want to be able to peer inside the jar. Leave the neck of the jar as you want that to be covered with yellow sand. Pour in your blue sand, put the lid on and gently shake the sand around the glass until all the glue is covered. Pour out excess sand and leave the jar to dry for about half an hour. The glue won’t have totally set but it will be firm enough for you to start the next sand layer.
2) Now paint the neck of the jar with glue. Pour in the yellow sand, put on the lid and again carefully roll/shake the yellow sand over the glue until it is covered. Pour out any excess and leave to dry.
3) Carefully cover the inside of the jar lid with glue and then cover with yellow sand. Make sure you leave a gap around the edge so that lid can still be screwed onto the jar. Again leave for about half an hour.
4) Finally, paint some seaweed type shapes with the glue above the blue sand. Fill with green sand, put on lid and gently roll the sand around the jar until the glue is covered. Pour out and leave to dry for a couple of hours until the Gorilla Glue has totally set.
5) When the glue has set, rinse the inside of the jar with water to remove any loose sand and set somewhere warm to dry.
6) Now use the Clear Gorilla Glue to create a centrepiece for the middle of the Mini Glass Jar Sea Aquarium. You’ll probably need to do this in stages to allow the glue to set the pieces but I found that the max I had to wait was an hour and that was only for the really delicately glued pieces. I also alternated between decorating centrepiece and decorating the inside of the glass jar (see further down this post).
7) When Decorating the inside of the jar I used wooden skewers to place the glue and move the shells and beads into place. You need to rest the jar on it’s side and for the pieces to start to set before you can decorate all the sides.
8) Once all the pieces have set and the glue is completely dry you can put the lid on and you have an adorable mini glass jar sea aquarium keepsake.
Gorilla Glue sent me a free sample of Gorilla Glue Clear for the purpose of making this craft.
Id love to try and recreate your aquarium!
Love your aquarium. I’d mainly use it for repairing things, and for sticking up a sticky hook that keeps falling off.
I would use it on the edges and corners of mirrors to make a decorative border
My coat hooks – they are forever falling off
To decorate a pair of shoes.
I would decorate shoes.
I’d use it on a doll house I’m building 🙂
I would use gorilla glue to bling up my home accessories x
It would be great for gluing tiny items in my dolls house that I am working on!
We have been making new pictures to put up around the house, we want to attempt a shell pictured in a frame and I think these products would help hold the shells.
Love the aquarium….would also love to try to decorate a pair of old converse I have in the wardrobe
I’d use it on my picture frames which are falling apart
Probably fixing stuff my boyfriend breaks!!
My husband uses Gorilla glue to stick Warhammer figures together
Stick the tops back on the knobs of my gas hob.
I’d use it to create a nice picture to go in the hallway!
With all that comes with the prize, I would use it for all my projects.
All of them! We can’t cope without Gorilla Glue. Yesterday it was to repair a length of wicker broken off a basket that the cat had decided to use as a scratching post!
I have a wardrobe that needs the foil finish attaching in parts so Gorilla should be great for doing that
Repairing the children’s play house
Repairing broken mug handles
Repairing my cats scratching post which has been wrecked by their enthusiasm
Most things that either need fixing or hanging, Gorilla Glue is amazing!
The vase that I broke a few weeks ago
I’d like to make a glass mosaic piece all of my own! The gorilla glue looks perfect to me!
The aquarium is amazing – I would love to make it with the kids over the summer holidays!
I love your mini Glass Jar Sea Aquarium. If I won I would use these to in my pebble painting, they would be perfect for using to glue pebbles together and to add decorations.
I used it recently to mend a broken shower hose.
hundreds of little mending jobs round the house
I would use to decorate some boxes that I have and have been meaning to do x
Fixing our house with a baby & 4 year old!
I have a few DIY projects on the go and they all need some sort of glue to repair! This would be amazing!
To fix my set of drawers! Would be so useful for lots of DIY projects
Glueing the wallpaper back on the wall down the stairs
For arts and crafts with my daughter
I have some garden lights I want to attach to a lantern I would use it for that
I’d try to do some DIY jobs around the house
A items that has been broken especially a lovely vase that belonged to my mother
I like making my own Christmas decorations so I would use it to start my pine cone Christmas wreath
My bedroom doorknob keeps falling off so this would be perfect to fix it
Repairing my dodgy shed….
I am a crafter and absolutely love the idea of your mini aquarium, I’m sure we would find loads of things to use this glue on, especially decorating my wedding shoes.
i’m always fixing things my son and hubby break so this would be ideal
I want to repair some old breakfast stools and a variety of broken bits and bobs that have plenty of useful life left in them if given a little TLC. I mean why throw away when there’s an opportunity to recycle.
I would use it to do crafts with the kids. Thankyou for the competition x
We seem to always need to fix something,especially a wobbly wooden table leg and handles on cupboards.
I’d use it for arts and craft activities
Have a few drawers and chairs that need some tlc
Besides it would be great to have for all the little things that break.I have just the jar that would be great to recreate that aquarium you made,Just the thing to keep the youngest busy in the school holidays when mommy is at work.
I would love to try making some mosaic borders on my pots in my garden.
I would use it to mend a glass Christmas decoration which has broken in half
I am actually making a toy cot for my niece at the moment. So I would probably use it on that in some capacity, probably decoration.
I’ve just repaired my hubby’s favourite ornament which I accidently dropped -He still doesn’t know it’s been broken!!!
Fitting a dado rail.
mine would be for DIY to finally get the door thresholds to stay in place!
Fairy Jars 🙂
I would use it to make a fairy garden.
I’d use gorilla glue whilst modifying my latest guitar
I think I’d use it for a papier-mâché sculpture.
Right now I am trying to repair a “family heirloom” jewellery box that has fallen apart – very fiddly with lots of little drawers and compartments
I would use it on fixing a loose rung in my fave rocking chair
I would use I to glue the light surround in place, because it keeps bugging me when it moves.
upcycling some old chairs
I want to make a special photo frame as a gift for my brother in law for being so good to us xx
I’d use it to fix some furniture
i have some planters i want to put a edging on x
I would use it to fix a set of drawers which are slightly damaged.
So many jobs to do around the house but I would definetly use it to make wooden picture frames for photos, something i’ve wanted to do for a long while but struggle to find the time x
I’d make some Fairy Jars with it
Fix the lid of laundry basket
My eye glasses.
I’d make a mirror mosaic photo frame.
I’ve got loads of glass jars and jewelled ribbon. I want to make some centre piece vases for my mum’s birthday party
Reparing the toys my 9 year old ADHD son has broke I have a pile
I would use it on one of my guitar clamps
Our living room table has a loose leg that I’d like to use this to sure up.
I want to try blinging up a mirror frame so it matches my newly decorated living room
I’m making a dressing table from an old desk and 2 mirrors so this would be perfect 🙂
my daughters bedroom
I would use it to put some objects in a box frame we have. My sister in law got married in may and they made lovely, wooden place holders in the shape of mountains. They are beautiful and I would like to them in a frame.
A broken panel in the greenhouse
I’d use it on upcycling some photo frames 🙂
My son’s bed/desk combo
My wicker chair has a bit on the back needs sticking back together so I’d start there!
My daughters bedroom desk xxx