DIY light bulb crafts

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

The number of light bulbs burned down in each house during the period of its existence is probably impossible to even count. And they are all thrown away, as a rule, "to nowhere." It turns out that they can find a useful application - making interesting crafts from light bulbs. Of course, in addition to them, for some original little thing, other materials will also be needed, but it will not be difficult to find them, many of them are available in every home.

Light bulb balloons: preparing materials and tools

Balloons - crafts made from light bulbs, with which you can unusually decorate a children's room or any other room. For their manufacture, nothing special is required, and the process itself will not take much time or effort. To begin work, of course, it is necessary to prepare everything necessary for the future balloon.

To do this, you will need glue, a paint brush, multi-colored wrapping paper, scissors, yarn or twine, acrylic paints, tape about 1 cm wide, an awl, toothpicks, glitter, a few small plastic animals and light bulbs. For convenience, alsoit is necessary to have wide-necked glass bottles on hand, where crafts from light bulbs can be installed for the drying period. It is worth noting that the number of light bulbs, bottle caps and animals must match the estimated number of finished balloons.

Next, you need to cut out 4 ovals with pointed ends of one color and 4 of another from wrapping paper. The length of these parts should correspond to the height of the light bulb. How exactly to do this, you can see in the figure below.

Light bulb balloon: how to make?

Having everything you need at hand, you can proceed directly to the process of making crafts from light bulbs. With your own hands, using a brush, you need to cover the entire glass surface with glue. Next, fix 4 pieces of wrapping paper of the same color on the light bulb so that the same distances are obtained between them, which at the next stage will need to be covered with blanks of a different color, not forgetting to pre-glue the edges of the already fixed strips with glue, since the parts of a different color should slightly cover the previous ones. After these steps, the light bulb must be installed in a jar with a wide neck and wait for it to dry completely.

In the meantime, you can prepare a basket for future crafts from an old light bulb. To do this, take the cap from a plastic bottle and use an awl to make 4 holes on its walls. It is important that they are at the same distance from each other. Next, a kind of basket must be coveredglitter. For convenience, you can stick a toothpick into one of the holes and, holding the lid by it, paint.

Assembly of the balloon

While all the details of the future ball are drying, it is necessary to prepare two pieces of thick yarn or twine, the length of which is a little more than two bulb heights. Each of the threads should be folded in half and, stepping back about 2 cm from the top, tie a knot. Now you can return to the dry bulb. It is necessary to fix the prepared threads on it with glue. Moreover, each of them should be fastened with different ends to opposite sides of the “ball”.

The plastic cover will be attached to the light bulb with the remaining ends, but this is a little later. And first you need to paint the metal part of the future ball with bright watercolors and, after waiting for it to dry, paste over the junction of the paper with the paint with bright braid or ribbon. Now it remains only to place a small animal in the basket and hang the balloon in any suitable place. You can make several of these crafts and place them in different parts of the room or nearby. In any case, they will delight the eyes of the owners of the house and attract the attention of their guests.

Bumblebee from an old light bulb

If you are interested in crafts made from light bulbs, then you simply cannot ignore the bumblebee, which will be discussed later. To make it, you will need yellow paint, a permanent black marker, a paint brush, scissors, black cardboard, glue, white pipe cleaners for cleaning pipes of a minimum diameter, andplastic eyes.

First, you need to paint the light bulb in stripes, alternating yellow paint and black marker. You should start with a yellow strip applied to the glass top. And you need to finish with a black marker, painting the metal tip of the light bulb with it, on top of which, after the paint dries, you will need to stick the eyes.

Now wings. To make them, you should take two pieces of a brush and bend them in the form of droplets, and then attach them to the back of the future bumblebee. Next, to complete the light bulb craft, the master class involves cutting two narrow strips of about 2 inches long from black cardboard, which must be slightly twisted on one side. Then glue on a metal tip a little above the eyes - these will be antennas. The finished bumblebee can be hung by the wings, simply placed on a shelf or presented to someone as a souvenir.

Christmas crafts

New Year's crafts made from light bulbs can turn out to be no less interesting, with which you can decorate a Christmas tree or just the walls of a room where the New Year will be celebrated. So, one of the easiest products to make is a snowman. To do this, you need to have on hand white and black paint, glue, buttons, a brush for drawing, as well as a scarf and a hat with a pompom. The last two parts can be made by yourself or you can use puppets.

Making a snowman out of a light bulb

First you need to cover the glasswhite paint surface. Then a row of buttons should be glued vertically, leaving the empty narrow glass part of the light bulb - on it you will need to draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the future snowman with black paint.

At the final stage of making crafts from light bulbs with your own hands, you will need to tie a scarf between the buttons and your face, and put a hat on the metal tip and fix it with glue. You can make several such snowmen and decorate with them the room in which the holiday will be celebrated.