How to Cut Glass Underwater With Normal Scissors

So is there a trick to cutting glass? Yes, 100% there are lots of different techniques, but one of the most popular at the moment is cutting glass with scissors underwater. So can you cut glass with normal scissors? Seems too good to be true right?

What? Really? Cut glass underwater? With scissors…check out the video showing a woman cutting a circle out of the glass with scissors, underwater. Hard to believe. And she does say, “Don’t try this at home!”. But…I want to try this in my studio. Just cause…

Whether you need to cut a glass bottle or other piece of glass for an art project or for another reason, there are several different techniques you may use. The majority of experts prefer to cut bottles using genuine glass cutters, which have little tables with attachments to hold the bottle firmly in place and extremely durable diamond carbide blades. Cutting glass with string is a more intriguing and exciting option, but how do you do that?

A knot should be tied at the end after securely wrapping the thread many times around the bottle. Put on a pair of fireproof gloves, remove this, and soak it in acetone. Reattach the cord to the bottle once it has become wet.

Have a lighter handy, and use pliers to pick up the bottle. Light the string’s end with a lighter while keeping the bottle as far from you as possible. Before the flame goes out, carefully spin the container while the string burns and submerge it in a pail of freezing water. If everything went according to plan, the bottle should break equally along the string.

Remember, don’t try this at home. Hahahaha! If it looks to scary for you, then how about buying a bottle or glass cutter instead?

There are lots of things you can make with glass, so make sure you check out our other articles on glass cutting and glass projects.

We have written a few here too – How to melt recycled glass bottles in a microwave to make jewelry

6 Things to Make With Cut Glass Bottles

Are you still baffled as to why and how you can cut glass with scissors? Check out this youtube video which shows you the science behind why it is possible to cut glass underwater.

Looking for more glass art projects and ideas? Check out our dedicated Glass Arts Pinterest Board.

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My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings.

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town.

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why.

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble.

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings.

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school.

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!).

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town.

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again.

[Photo: Brother]

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