How to make homemade glitter!

Glitter is fun to craft with but did you know that you can make your own?! You probably have the ingredients in your pantry right now so go make some.

What you’ll need:

Epsom salt (or plain white sugar or salt can be used)
Liquid food colouring
Zip lock bags

Method:

Place 2 tablespoons of salt into a zip lock bag – do as many bags as you would like colours.
Put 10-15 drops of food colouring in each bag and shake until colour has mixed evenly.
Open the bag and leave somewhere warm to dry out overnight.
Use your glitter to decorate your craft work. If you have used sugar, this glitter can even be used to decorate your baking!

This glitter is a lot less messy than the bought stuff that sticks to everything in the house and never comes off, I love it.

What’s your kids favourite craft material?

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27 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 01 Oct 2021
    10:43 am
awesome….. I love the sugar idea for baking

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Nov 2019
    9:28 am
Oh yeah, fun, easy to make and environmentally friendly. Clever creation here

- - mom62624 said
  - 29 Oct 2017
    9:12 am
Great, thanks and kids seem to love anything that glitters/sparkles.

- - ella12 said
  - 20 Sep 2016
    11:21 am
Very cool and so easy to make!

- - tessie said
  - 19 Sep 2016
    11:28 am
This is fantastic. It is so easy to make and so cheap too.

- - rovermum said
  - 19 Sep 2016
    9:15 am
OMG this is so easy. I absolutely love it. Thanks so much for sharing.

- - mom101628 said
  - 17 Sep 2016
    9:13 pm
Love the idea of using up the coloured Epsom salts in the bath – two problems solved in one.

- - deb_gs said
  - 17 Sep 2016
    9:00 am
If you use Epsom salts, then you can make a coloured bath with the finished glitter. Bonus!

- - mom119776 said
  - 16 Sep 2016
    2:14 pm
What a great idea. My daughter loves glitter but I don’t as I find it everywhere in the house.

- - mom71820 said
  - 16 Sep 2016
    12:21 pm
What a cool idea. thanks!

- - mom134803 said
  - 16 Sep 2016
    7:44 am
Clever idea !

- - Just Me said
  - 14 Sep 2016
    4:00 pm
I used to make this for my kids, now I make it for my grand daughter. It’s really a quick nifty idea

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Sep 2016
    12:10 pm
yes great craft idea. the kids will enjoy making things all colourful. thanks for sharing this fantastic idea

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 27 Aug 2016
    6:30 pm
glitter makes everything better!

- - mom90758 said
  - 27 Aug 2016
    11:27 am
I love this coloured salt/glitter. My nephew, a lot of years ago, had filled a little bottle with them. It was quite precious!

- - lspew said
  - 26 Aug 2016
    8:53 am
This looks like a great idea, i do have a concern that if you used sugar and the art work was hung up in the house would this then attract ants??
- cherz replied
  
  16 Sep 2016 , 1:24 pm
  Thinking exactly the same thing …epsom salts and salt would be fine with me but not the sugar , unless I was using the sugar for cake decorating then it would be ok but not for craft.
- - mom132206 said
  - 23 Aug 2016
    10:02 am
I’m looking for party favour bag ideas, this is perfect! I’m actually excited to make it!

- - mom112217 said
  - 23 Aug 2016
    8:11 am
You can use glitter for many occasions,thanks!

- - mom93821 said
  - 23 Aug 2016
    6:25 am
Pretty glitter – love the colours. Thanks for the recipe for this glitter.

- - mom134803 said
  - 23 Aug 2016
    4:40 am
Smart thinking ! And so much cheaper then the store bought version !
- mom93821 replied
  
  24 Aug 2016 , 5:48 am
  Store bought products are often more expensive.