How to Make Homemade Sea Glass Paint

Love the look of sea glass when decorating your home? Are you into the coastal cottage lifestyle? I love everything that has to do with the beach! There’s something calm and relaxing about living or visiting the coast.

I decorate my home in the coastal cottage style and enjoy making a lot of the decor accents you find around my home. Let’s face it…buying coastal decor can be pricey, especially if you don’t live near the beach! Not only that, I like unique things, not things that can be found in every store on the island.

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You can quickly and easily make your own homemade Sea Glass Paint and use it to paint glass items around your home. Don’t have any? Don’t worry, I often find the cutest clear glass canisters, vases, plates, glasses, fish bowls, candle holders, mason jars, etc. at my local Dollar General and Dollar Tree stores! You can recycle glass condiment jars, wine bottles, spaghetti sauce jars, etc. You can easily change those plain glass items into something spectacular using sea glass paint!

How to Make Homemade Sea Glass Paint

Reusable Plastic Bottles
Modge Podge
Food Coloring
Paint Brush
Foam Paint Brush
Glass Items to Paint
Sheet of Aluminum Foil

Add 1 oz. to 2 oz. of Modge Podges into your reusable plastic bottle. The bottles I picked up from the Dollar Tree have little nozzles on the top which I appreciate. Squirt in 1-2 drops of food coloring. You can make the colors as light or as dark as you would like. Start out with 1 drop at a time…shake the bottle to distribute the color and if needed add a second drop.

To get the seaglass turqoise blue color that you see in my photograph I had to use a combination of blue and green, just a tiny drop at a time until I got the desired shade. Make sure you throughly mix up the paint in your bottle so that it’s evenly distributed.

From a local discount department store I purchased clear glass fish and seashells. They’re solid glass and while “okay” being clear…I wanted them the color of sea glass.

Lay down a sheet of aluminum foil. It makes a great non-stick surface and painting can be messy! I squirted a little bit of the new sea glass paint onto the item and used a foam brush to paint it. You can use a little bristle style paint brush to get into any nooks and crannies depending on what you’re painting. Let the first side dry completly, flip over and then paint the second side. I find that they dry fairly quickly, so perhaps 30-45 minutes depending on the item. Let dry completely.

Here’s a few additional tips:

* Try to mix up just the amount of paint that you think you’ll need. You don’t want to waste it, but you do need to make sure you have enough for your entire project.

* Pick up inexpensive squeeze bottles from the craft section at Dollar Tree (like the one you see in my photo). They’re reusable and came in a 2-pack for $1.25. Perfect for storing and dispensing the sea glass paint.

* When storing the paint keep it in a cool, dry, and dark place.

* Items painted with this paint need to be hand washed. Don’t place them into the dishwasher.

* Don’t like the color? You can easily wash it off under warm running tap water while the paint is still wet and start over again.

* Use a foam brush to cut down on paint brush streaks. Use the bristle brush to just get into the nooks and crannies.

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