Beach in a Bottle

Hi All,

In this instructable, I will share how to make a simple beach in a bottle using recycled items.

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• An old chutney glass jar, with a wider mouth
• Cardboard for delivery boxes
• Popsicle sticks from an ice cream stick
• Green Crape paper
• Epoxy Resin
• Dried Blue Poster color
• PVA glue / fevicol
• Sand
• Air Dry Clay
• Shells

• Before we start, we need to visualize/plan
• We need to decide how we want the beach to look like
• How steep the beach shore will be
• Where we want to place the house, size of the house
• Size and number of trees

• We need 4 oval-shaped cardboard
• These are stuck together to make a beach slope
• Using PVA glues, stick fine sand, as shown
• Let it dry for 2 hours
• Now inspect for holes and stick more sand
• Let is dry for a day

• The small shells were part of the sand, I just had to filter them out
• I choose smaller shells to be used
• Made a small house using popsicle sticks
• Stick the shells using glue on the beach
• House will be stuck later

• I used airdry clay to make the tree trunks and paint them brown
• Leaves are made using crepe paper and stuck together using PVA glue
• We need 2 trees

• Glue the beach in the bottle
• And fill any gaps with a paste of glue and sand as shown
• Let this dry for few days
• Stick the shells, trees, and the house
• Let it dry

• For simulating the sea, we will use Epoxy/resin
• Caution: Use proper safety while using epoxy/resin
• I mixed about 16 gms of epoxy ( 12 gms of epoxy + 4 gms of hardner)
• Added pigment from dried poster color (blue)
• Pour it in the bottle and leave it for 24 hrs

• After 24 hrs the resin should be completely solid
• I added a boat that I made from air-dry clay
• And some waves using white acrylic colors

We are done and our new recycled Beach in a bottle is ready