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Grab some styrofoam balls and sparkly items for this stunning garden project.
I picked up three of these styrofoam balls when I was at the Dollar Store. I wanted three different sizes and each one is going to be covered differently.
The first thing I want to do is create a way to stand these up in the garden. Regular old sticks that I picked up outside work perfectly, and one will be put in each of the balls.
All you have to do with the sticks is push them right into the bottom of the ball. It's as easy as that.
Now that I've got my styrofoam balls on the sticks, I want to go ahead and paint each of these balls. To paint each one, I used the stick as a way to hold it while I'm painting it.
Each ball will get a coat of paint. It doesn't have to be perfect because they will be covered with something after we've painted it. You want to go ahead and cover that styrofoam though because you don't want any white peeking through once we cover the balls.
Once you've got your coat of paint on, you can go ahead and take a jar and just stand up your ball in the jar until it's dry.
Now that the paint is all dry on the styrofoam balls, it's time to start adding some sparkle to our gazing balls for the garden. I started with the medium one and covered it in glue first.
I'm using glue specifically for styrofoam because I want to make sure it doesn't disintegrate the styrofoam. You can use a brush to spead the glue all over. The glue dries clear so I don't have to worry about it changing the color.
Once the ball is covered in glue, I will sprinkle on all different colors of glitter.
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