Solar light jar project

On a recent yucky weather day, we needed a fun art project to do so we made some solar light jars. It was a pretty easy & cheap project. 

Our supplies:
*jars (we used things that were old pasta sauce jars, an olive jar and a ball jar)
*paintbrush
*food coloring (we used Williams-Sonoma because that's what we have)
*solar lights (got ours from Target: $1 for little one on sale, $3 for big ones)
*Mod Podge (we used the outdoor variety and the glitter one)
*newspaper




Using newspaper to protect our kitchen table, painted on a mixture of Mod Podge and food dye.  Because ours is really bright, I just put in a drop of the dye. I would say we used about a 1/4 cup of mod podge for 2 jars but I didn't measure it.  We painted it on and let it sit for about 10 minutes. After that, we needed to add a 2nd coat. On the blue, yellow and purple jars, we took a paper towel dipped in our Mod Podge mixture and stippled on some more "paint" all over the jars. On the green one (which was made with the glitter Mod Podge), I just took my paintbrush with more more "paint" and did a swirl pattern.




While the jars were wet, the colors looked a bit obnoxious but they dried to a much nicer color. We let them air dry for 2 days and then they looked like this:




Our next step was to remove the stems of our solar lights. The tops fight just right on top of the jars so we super glued them to the jars. The blue, yellow and purple ones can go outside since we used the outdoor Mod Podge, but they hang out in our kitchen window. The green one has to stay inside and lives in our master bedroom. I love them. They have a pretty glow at night. I'm hoping to save up more jars and do a few more for our house.