Dinosaur Terra/Aquarium.
Posted on | January 23, 2012 | 27 Comments
last week my friend Chelsey posted the cutest paper terrarium on her blog. i’ve been seeing terrariums everywhere and am loving them all. the levi’s store in SF had HUGE amazing ones and all i could think was “i could never keep that alive”. i still want to (try to) make a few live ones, but in the meantime i had to make Chelsey’s completely impossible to kill paper one.
my apothecary jar i wanted to use was too small for the bunting and Harper wanted one for her room and she loves dinosaurs. a trip to the dollar store, some painting and arranging later, the dinosaur terra/aquarium was born and sitting on her shelf. Harper said it looks like an aquarium/fish bowl and since it’s not alive, we are calling it both. because you do what a three year tells you.
besides, a fish is the last thing i need around here. plastic dinosaurs live foreverrrrr!
bonus – this fulfills two of my must-do-soon crafts: terrarium and painted plastic animals. unfortunately, it only made me want to paint more plastic animals and create more terrariums.
i bought the moss and dinos at the dollar store, the paints i already had (but were less than 2 bucks a pop) and i picked up the fish bowl at goodwill for a dollar. Chelsey’s printout was free (if only printer ink was!) so in the realm of cheap crafts? ::insert YOU ARE HERE arrow:: in hindsight, the only thing i’d do differently is splurge (heh) on the moss and buy it at Michaels. the dollar store moss isn’t very green.
do any of you own a real live terrarium? give it to me straight – are they easy to maintain? or should i stick to neon and gold children’s figurines in a bowl – which oddly i’d be ok with?
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We had one in our kitchen when I was a kid. The thing was a beast! Had to be about two feet tall, in a big glass jug with a giant cork in the top. It was pretty awesome, I remember making it as a family science project, it lived a lot longer than we thought it would, like we had it for years. It would have keep going, except the plants out grew the thing. It’s pretty neat how it kept itself alive, in its own little ecosystem without us ever having to water it.
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Just started following your blog! This is such a cute and fun idea
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You MUST visit Artemisia in Portland – you can take a terrarium class for $35. I shared about it here http://thatmamagretchen.blogspot.com/2011/08/happy-birthday-terrarium-style.html – LOVE!!!
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this is SO COOL
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Mandy Reply:
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 pm
photoshop! and thank you m’dear.
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