Whether you are considering what your next big hobby will be or looking for a fun activity to share with your children, you can’t go wrong with collecting snow globes. Unlike many hobbies, beginning a snow globe collection doesn’t take much money to get started, and it is a fun way to remind us of the little child in the heart of every person. Since snow globes are fun to collect for people young and old, they make a great collection for an adult, a child or the whole family.
Snow globes are a transparent sphere that is usually made of glass with an enclosed scene of some type. The sphere encloses the water and acts as a medium between the water and snow. You can easily make the snowfall inside of the globe by shaking it and some even contain a built-in music box that may play traditional Christmas music.
Snow globes fist appeared on the market in France during the early nineteenth century on the heels of a similar paperweight that was very popular at the time. Through the years, snow globes have a number of different names, such as snow shakers, water balls, water domes and snow domes. In recent years, it was discovered that filling the globe with a mixture of water and glycerin caused the snow to fall more realistically.
Snow globes feature a wide variety of scenes ranging from well-known holiday scenes, animals, popular icons, Disney characters and even military figures. There is no shortage of scenes to be collected with new figures often being added. Many stores especially around the holidays sell snow globes and they can easily be acquired even on sale.
As snow globes can and do break causing quite a mess, it is important to have a stable place to show off a collection. Ideally this would be in a collection cabinet, but good sturdy shelving works as does a sofa table as long as it is well known that snow globes are only handled with adults helping. It is also not a good idea to store snow globes where they are exposed to extremes in temperatures.
These are some things to consider if this is the hobby for you. Snow globes come in a wonderful assortment and even if you collect 5 or 500 will be a wonderful addition to your home. Remember that the history of snow globes is as fun as collecting these little beauties.
There are a huge number of snowglobes to start with, consider a Betty Boop snow globe or Pinocchio snow globes.