Seasonal candles are always crowd-pleasers, so why not elevate this simple gift by making your own? To make your own candles, cut a wick to the correct length and place it inside the Mason jar. Next, melt wax in a pot on the stove. Once melted, add color and fragrance. Finish by pouring wax into the Mason jar and allow it to harden.
27 Christmas Mason Jar Crafts You Can Make Today
Try these Mason jar crafts for easy gifts and decor this holiday season.
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Intended for canning, Mason jars serve a different purpose come Christmas. As food gifts, candleholders, and more, this vintage kitchen staple will keep you crafting through the holidays. We’re sharing our favorite easy Mason jar craft ideas.
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Festive Mason Jar Candle
Try these easy candles for Mason jar crafts you can make in bulk for gift-giving. Wrap the jar with wide plaid ribbon and secure with three jute strings tied in a bow. Hot-glue a pinecone and artificial greenery to the bow. To add a finishing touch to this easy Christmas craft, wood-burn a snowflake or polka-dots onto four wooden beads and thread onto four string ends. Place a tall, slender pillar candle in the jar.
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Mason Jar Cookie Display
A Christmas Mason jar filled with sugar cookie trees and a reindeer is a sweet way to spread holiday cheer. Fill your jar with a couple of inches of granulated sugar to set the scene. Wrap the top with battery-operated fairy lights to complete the look.
Editor’s Tip: Decorate your sugar cookie cutouts with homemade royal icing.
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Draw and Paint a Mason Jar with Spring Flowers
If you have been following me at all you know I love to paint florals. I will add them to any painting! It’s finally May and I have a simple and fun spring floral painting tutorial for you! I want to show you how to draw and paint this mason jar with spring flowers.
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A mason jar can be simple to draw and so versatile that it can be used in so many other paintings. I will show you the easy way to draw one! Then we will add some colorful spring flowers, of course.
Materials Mentioned
- Mixed Media or Water Color Paper
- Acrylic Paint in Mint Julep, Dragon Fruit, Yellow, Purple Rain, Turquoise Blue,White (these exact colors my be out of stock, just use any of your favorites)
- Paintbrushes
- Waterproof Art Pens in Black
- A Cute Frame (optional) make sure it fits your paper size!
My favorite pen to use to sketch out the lines before painting is the Pentalic Illustration brush style pen. Any tip shape you like will work, just make sure it is a waterproof pen so it doesn’t bleed into your colors when we start to paint.
This style of art is kinda messy and loose, not about perfection so leave that somewhere else! We are here to enjoy the process and not stay inside the lines.
First, take a look at the surface you are working on, think about how you want the painting composition to be while keeping in mind space for the flowers. I will also be adding my word of the year, Joy. I choose to put my mason jar a little off to the left to accommodate.
In the video below I show you just how I drew the mason jar with step-by-step instructions! Keep the lines light and sketch-like. I like the messy look of the extra lines. This style makes it super easy to hide any missteps and can work well with other mediums too. Start with a pencil if you aren’t sure yet of going straight in with a pen.
You can paint so many things into a mason jar. Today we are adding spring flowers but the sky is the limit! Before we start to paint I want to draw in a couple of stems, leaves, and flowers.
You want to match the sketch style of the jar, these aren’t perfect straight lines either. Use quick, short motions to sketch just a few flowers and stems. Keep it simple, you can always add more!
Now it is time to paint the mason jar and spring flowers!
To make acrylic paints look like watercolors, you only need a little bit of paint. I use clean water and add it to the paint until it is pretty thin. You can choose how transparent to make your paint.
I start with one color and start painting in like a coloring book! Don’t worry too much about staying inside the lines, this is a loose and free painting style. I even paint in extra color and go in after the paint is dry to sketch around it.
My goal this year is to bring you all as much joy as I can through painting. As a reminder to myself I wanted to add my word of the year to this painting, I first lightly sketch a cursive JOY with a pencil. Then, trace over with the waterproof pen or a sharpie. I made all my downstrokes thicker and filled them in.
Lettering can be very relaxing but this is a skill I am still working on inside my friend Casey’s Group. I am lucky to have her as one of my guest instructors for a tutorial inside of my Inner Tribe!
How to draw and paint a spring Mason Jar with Flowers
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Step 7: Finish the Lid
Once you have traced the outline on the cardboard or paper, you should fit the cut out to the metal band.
- First, you cut the cardboard or paper outline. It should be a circle about the size of the metal band.
- Next, you push the cardboard or paper circle inside the metal band. You may need to trim the paper just a little so it fits snuggly inside the metal band.
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Next, you carefully screw on the paper/cardboard lid. You should be careful not to rub or chip off any of the paint.
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Finally, you can tie the bow onto your Mason Jar decoration.
- You should tie the bow around the neck of the jar.
- You can put the bow placement however you like and fluff the bow in whatever way you think looks best.
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Step 11: Finished Product
Voila! You have completed your simple, Mason Jar, Halloween Decoration. This creative project takes only a few minutes and is perfect to spruce up or simplify in whatever way you like!
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