Glue Gun waterfall- Very Easy Step by Step Tutorial

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Want to make a fake waterfall without water? We have a beautiful DIY glue gun waterfall with step by step tutorial!

Making this craft is so much fun and so easy that it can become your new favorite hobby! Just like our popular floating tea-cup decor project, this waterfall craft is a perfect boredom buster craft for tweens, teens, and even adults.

This beautiful miniature waterfall can be used as fake water for diorama, miniatures, waterfall model for school projects, fairy garden waterfall, or simply as homemade room decor. You can use any base such as a wooden board, glass, porcelain plate, etc. to make your waterfall and it just takes less than half an hour to complete this project!

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How do you make fake water for a waterfall?

You can make fake water in many ways. For example, you can use PVA glue, melted candle gel wax, etc to make artificial water. In this waterfall craft project, we have used hot glue to make fake water. We painted the transparent plastic sheets blue and white and applied hot glue over them.

Supplies you need to make a DIY Hot Glue Gun Waterfall

1. Hot Glue. (We used at least 8 to 9 glue sticks for this project)

2. Scissors

3. Transparent plastic sheets (We just recycled the plastic bag which came with our craft supplies.)

4. Blue and white paint

5. Artificial Moss rocks

6. Rocks

7. Artificial leaves

8. A plate

How to make a waterfall with hot glue

Watch the video tutorial at the top or follow the below steps. It is gonna be easier than you think! 🙂

Step 1

Get a clean, dry porcelain plate and a transparent plastic sheet.

Fold the plastic sheet to a size that fits inside the plate. Now, apply some hot glue in the plate in a circular shape and stick the folded plastic sheet over it.

glue gun waterfall-step1-stick the plastic sheet on the plate

Cut the edges of the sheet to make it neater and to give the remaining part a nice round shape.

Step 2

Cut the edges of the plastic sheet to make a waterfall from hot glue gun

Step 3

Stick some rocks and mossy rocks around the plate using hot glue.

Stick some rocks and mossy rocks for the fairy garden fake water

Stick rocks to make a fairy garden waterfall using hot glue

Stack up a few rocks and stick them to each other using hot glue as shown below. Now stick it on the plate. We will build our waterfall on this.

Stack the rocks to make the hot glue waterfall craft

Step 4

Get another small piece of the transparent plastic sheet as shown below. Stick one end of it on top of the rocks which we stacked up and the other end over the plastic sheet inside the plate. We have made the structure of the waterfall.

Stick another piece of plastic sheet to make a fake waterfall decoration

Step 5

I wanted to get a bluish color for the water. So I painted light blue acrylic paint at the bottom of the waterfall. Also, I gave some white strokes on the top.

To make waterfall with glue gun, paint the pond with blue and white

How to make fake water with glue?

Now, let’s make the water using hot glue. Get the hot glue gun again and run the hot glue over the plastic sheet from the top of the rocks to the bottom. Now, squirt some glue at the bottom of the waterfall where we painted blue colour to make it look like a pond.

Apply hot glue all over to make a glue gun waterfall

Step 6

Complete the structure by sticking more rocks, mossy rocks, artificial leaves and plants till you are happy with the look. You can also add some flowers if you like. 🙂

Don’t forget to add some drops of hot glue randomly over the rocks and plants to get the look of scattered water drops.

That’s it! We just made a beautiful Hot Glue Gun waterfall 🙂 Wasn’t it super easy?!