Glue Star Sun catchers

To make Glue Star Sun catchers, you’ll need

• Tray, cookie sheet or similar to work on. {See notes below for more info.}
• Cookie cutters.
• Wax paper.
• Clear Elmer’s Glue. {White glue should work as well, it was used in the original post.}
• Pony beads.
• Glitter (optional).

We started by gathering all the materials we needed. I chose an 8×8 cake pan to work in and placed some wax paper at the bottom.

E got right to work with the clear glue, filling the bottom of the cookie cutter.

We tried out some glitter glue but it was really hard to squeeze, so the base of one of our stars looked like this before decorations were added:

It didn’t matter, as E made sure to use LOTS of decorations 

She used as much glitter as she wanted to before carefully picking out beads

and placing them in the glue.

And then, she usually added MORE glitter on top 

She loved it! {And when she saw the photos in this half-written post on my screen, she immediately said that she wanted to do it again  }

At my suggestion, she did one glue star suncatcher without glitter, just to see how it turned out.

I wasn’t entirely confident that all the glue star suncatchers were going to work out, it looked like some had too much glue and/or glitter, and the beads almost disappeared in the mix.

However, they all turned out fine, as the glue shrinks quite a bit during the drying process.

In the pictures of the finished products, you can see where the glue clung to the edges of the cookie cutters but shrunk in the middle:

Additional notes:

• While my 8×8 cake pan did a really good job of containing the glue, glitter and beads, a bigger size would’ve been better. I had to move the cookie cutters with a spatula underneath the wax paper each time one of the stars was finished to make room for the next one, and while it worked okay-ish, some of the glue leaked out every time. We did have plenty of glue but it could’ve been avoided if we’d had a cookie sheet or tray that fit all the cookie cutters at once.
• I didn’t realize it at the time but we used particularly sturdy cookie cutters, so we didn’t have any issues with leaking glue until I moved the cookie cutters. Please read the comments for some ideas that might help if your cookie cutters leak.
• It takes a while for the glue to dry completely, depending on how much you use. Ours were dry by the end of the next day.
• The dry glue sticks to glass but depending on how many beads you use, the glue star suncatchers may get too heavy. Alternatively, you could punch a hole at the top of your suncatchers and hang them up that way.