I need to fill some jars (they’re bookends) and want some suggestions?

different kinds of buttons.i used to have an old blue ball jar that was full of buttons all kinds differents shapes,styles,sizes and colors.very pretty.also seashells

Depends on what room they are in – a rack of pool balls, large rocks, marbles are some quirky suggestions.
Living room – silk flowers that match the room
Kitchen – different kinds of pasta
bathroom – net scrubbers and soaps
TV room – bags of snack food
craft room – buttons and spools of thread or beads
boys room – base balls
girls room – nail polish or beany babies

My mom collected different coloured beach glass…you know those small weathered pieces that wash ashore. It always looked so pretty.

You can go with the season.
Fall put in acorns or squash.
Winter put in small colorful ornaments.
Spring put in colored pebbles or flowers.
Summer put in bright items like colored balls or fruit.
Coordinate with room color or use as accent color.

Potpouri, marbles, buttons, safety pins, pens, pencils, paper clips, etc

hi i would fill them with declorinated water wait for algae to grow and add an apple snail or freshwater shrimp to each one

you can get this stuff from a petshop

colored glass beads and a chain of LED lights.”like the ones used on mini cristmas trees.”

carefully snake in the lights as you fill the jar with the colored beads.making shure the lights line the walls of the jar all the way to the top.

stick a battery to the lid of the jar and than tape the LED wires to it.
and set it on the shelf.

If you are wanting to use them to store stuff and not just look decorative, then practical things would be in order.

One useful item to store in jars is spare change.

You may also want to use one or both jars for elegant pens.

And a bit more creative is using one or both jars to hold your favorite bookmarks (I have a collection of assorted handmade and other unique bookmarks in a jar in my bookshelf, and it’s quite attractive).

how about filling them will odds and ends like hairbands nclips or any spare money you have left over at the end of the week so when the jar gets full empty it and statr agine and have fun spending the money you saved
my son dose this with his pocket money he has left

babydoll heads, scab collection, movie tickets, love letters, dirt from various places you visit?

If you want to store stuff in them, what about pencils, pens, magic markers, and letter openers?

If you simply want to decorate, I’ve seen marbles and glass pebbles strictly for decorating in various department stores.

Coins, shells, pebbles or small stones

you could fill them with glass pebbles, sea shells, pot pourri, pebbles in earth tones, Jelly beans that you will eat and refill the jar . Or you could paint the jars or even apply a stencil to them to embellish.

You can fill them with your costume jewellery. Long strands of beads and bracelets dangling over the edges could look quite interesting. Bric-a-brac pieces could also go in them if they were only small.

You could put dried flowers or feathers in them. Or you could store stationery items like pens and staplers in them but that would not look very attractive.

i have never tried this, but at the craft store for like regular glass windows can’t you get some kind of faux stained glass window looking sticker/decals.

maybe you could get those and see if they can be cut down to fit inside the jars. then you can spray paint the lids and then if you are using them as book-ends, maybe a good storage place for pens or a small spare flashlight (and a couple extra batteries) depending on how big your jars are, maybe a few small bookmarks would fit inside them that way they can be near the books ?

check out some sites like Crate and Barrell or Pottery barn, or even those sites that sell organization things like the Container store and see how they are promoting their jars and things and what they are using inside them. Also some Bookshelf sections of sites like JcPenney or things like that help me get ideas on what to do with things.

If they are in a home office, i have an empty Jar I fill with spare change, someone already mentioned that, it was a good idea. Also if its an office, and you dont want to cover or paint the jars, put things in there you always lose, definitely pens or pencils, i’m always losing my Scissors and paper clips, etc.

they also make these little tea light candles that are battery operated, so you dont have to worry about a “real” flame, you could get a couple of those and put them in the jar, may make it look kind of cool. not a huge storage solution but may look neat.

ok here is one answere go over to the craft store and get some of those clear glass rocks.I have some that are butterflies they work just great and they look really pretty when the sun shines on them.

Seashells,buttons,rocks from trips or vacations. Also glass gems-those colored glass pieces found in floral sections to hold stems upright in water-you can get them in craft shops, Walmart etc. That way you could get color in…

shells =D
them pretty coloured peppley stone things you can get =D
or like bits of broken different coloured glass. you can amek that easily.

I use wine bottle corks.

was going to suggest sand and sea shells or sea glass.
buttons
marbles
spools of thread
yarn
what small things do you collect?

Umm you’ll prob want something to weigh it down so marbles, or pebbles would work. Not change cause you never know if someone will take the darn thing.