Clay Snow Globe Ornament
A tiny ship-in-a-bottle style winter scene — 3D-printed trees and a hand-sculpted air-dry clay snowman — built inside a clear glass ornament globe.
I had a clear glass ornament globe lying around, got bored one evening, and decided that was basically an invitation to attempt a ship-in-a-bottle — just at a scale where “in a bottle” means “in something the size of a golf ball” instead of an actual ship.
The result is a tiny snow scene: three 3D-printed trees dressed up with a bit of static grass fluff so they read as trees instead of green cones, a hand-sculpted air-dry clay snowman built on a toothpick armature, and a bed of clay “snow” shaped into drifts with a wooden dowel — all pushed into the globe through an opening not much bigger than the tweezers I used to place everything.
That same small opening turned into the actual bottleneck. With almost no airflow to work with, the clay took an absurdly long time to dry. I dropped a couple of silica gel packets inside to see if they’d help pull moisture out faster. I have genuinely no idea if they did anything. It dried eventually, it looks good hanging on the tree, and I’m calling that a win regardless of whether the silica packets deserve any credit.
