How To Make Boring Drink Ware into Patriotic Glasses For Summer

Hi!  I am sharing today as part of the Craft Lightning Patriotic!  I am excited I am able to participate in this blog hop.  It includes a lot of bloggers making “lightning crafts”.  These are crafts that can be made in 15 minutes or less (excluding drying time).  I used some dollar store mason jar glasses and jazzed them up for a 4th of July celebration.  Now they are the perfect patriotic glasses.

I created some fun  patriotic decor last year for the office so I was excited to make more this year.

 

 

 

 

Patriotic Glasses

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Mason Jar Glasses

Oil Based Sharpie Markers – Red, White, Blue, Silver  (my photo shows a black pen instead of a silver one but I changed my mind)

Oven

Rubbing Alcohol ( just in case you make a mistake)

 

 

Let’s Get Started

I wanted a hand-drawn look for these glasses so I chose to just draw my stars onto the glasses free hand.  If you don’t like this idea you can make a stencil or use a pre-made stencil with stars on it.  And if you hate what you drew or you make a mistake some rubbing alcohol and some paper towel or a q-tip will remove the marker and you can start over.

This is so easy.  All I did was draw a 5 point star with the marker then color it in.

 

 

I had four glasses and I mixed up the colors a little bit.  On each glass I used two colors for the stars and then two colors for small dots as a filler.

Glass one – red and white stars with silver and blue dots

two – red and blue stars with white and silver dots

three – blue and white stars with red and silver dots

four – silver and red stars with blue and white dots

When they are done place them on a cookie sheet into a cold oven.  Turn the oven on to 250 degrees and let the glasses “bake” for 2 hours.  Then turn the oven off, keeping the glasses inside until the oven is cool.

This should make them safe for washing in the dishwasher but I would really recommend hand washing.

The Final Result

They are so festive and it is fun to have patriotic glasses for my 4th of July celebration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love them.  If you love them as well don’t forget to pin them!

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Michelle