Light bulb crafts: decorative and useful crafts with their own hands before the New Year, for children, home decorations

Light bulbs-very simple and accessible basis for any craft, but about this, unfortunately, not many people know. This material to create a decor or a craft is in everyone's home.

The advantage of a light bulb as a base is its availability and variety of forms. Light bulbs come in a variety of sizes, and this allows you to make a craft from them, as a large interior decoration, and a small toy for a child.

Preparatory work

In order to make a beautiful and inexpensive decoration for the house, you must first prepare a small light bulb for the craft for secondary use.

The very first thing you have to do is to prepare a box and gloves for your safety, in case the workpiece breaks.

The second step to make a complete base, would be to disconnect the plinth from the top of the pin. To perform this procedure you will need pliers, do not forget to work with gloves and over a prepared, in advance, box.

Then, using any sharp object, you must break the glass insulator located near the glass contact.

After complete liberation from the obstacles, with small pliers or tweezers you need to take out all the remaining contents of your future crafts.

Once all of the above items are done, you need to choose what you want to see as an addition to your interior made from a light bulb.

Interior decor elements made from light bulbs

There are different types of decor when used in the creation of a base in the form of a light bulb.

Vase

The very shape of the bulb is very reminiscent of a miniature vase. In order to create this element of home or outdoor decor you will need: the base itself, a little patience and imagination, and if you are a child, the supervision of your elders.

1. First, you need to ensure the stability of the future vase. This can be done with a gas burner. Direct a small amount of heat to the bottom of the lamp. After heating the glass, the bottom itself will take the desired shape, to create a vase.
2. There is another, safer way to make the future vase stable. To implement this idea, you will need a metal wire. Its beginning should be wrapped around the base, the rest of it should be attached to the cylindrical glass part of the bulb.
3. If the above two methods do not work for you, take a hot glue gun and attach the vase to a small stand in the form of a pebble or a board. The stand can be beautifully decorated with rhinestones or stickers, or you can simply coat it with clear varnish to give it a shine.
4. An excellent option for decorating outdoor structures would be a vase attached to the ceiling or other tall structure on a decorated string. The plinth itself, to which the cord will be attached, should be painted or wrapped around with cord.

The luminary

The next version of a craft out of the old bulb is a lamp for the design of a new, working bulb. To create this element of decor you will need:

• About two dozen small light bulbs for the craft
• A working light bulb
• Crayons
• Glue, you can replace it with Velcro.

Manufacturing process:

1. First you need to take the already prepared bulbs, fold them into an isosceles pentagon.
2. At the joints of the bulbs place markings with a felt-tip pen.
3. Glue in the designated places the components of the future lamp.
4. Then in the resulting figure put a working lamp, connected to a power source.

New Year's Toys

In addition to everyday decor, a craft from LED bulbs can serve as a great decoration for the Christmas tree.

To create a festive Christmas toy need only your imagination and materials you have at home.

Convex to the bottom and narrow on top, the shape of the bulb is perfect for creating a snowman, an animal face, a cartoon character that will decorate the branches of your holiday tree.

To decorate the toy will be suitable for ordinary watercolor or other paints, and to create the clothing of the hero, you can use fabric, felt, yarn.

Decorative elements

A beautiful element of decor will be a handmade candle.

To create it you will need:

• Melted paraffin.
• The wick.

In the prepared base from the lamp, it is necessary to pour melted paraffin. When pouring the substance, remember about the wick, it must be inserted into the future candle. After the paraffin has completely hardened, gently break the lamp.

A candle made in this way can be decorated with dye, adding it as you go. If you decide to add aromatic oils to the candle, it will fill your home with a pleasant fragrance.

Fruit

To decorate your home with beautiful and fresh fruits, you need a light bulb and paint. The bulb should be decorated with paint. For such a job well suit the usual watercolor, acrylic or oil paint.

With a sponge or brush cover the bulb with several layers of paint. Use different shades of the chosen paint to make the texture believable.

The darker shade should be applied to the less convex parts of the future fruit and the edges, and the lighter shade should be applied to the rest of the space. It is desirable to make the transition from one color to another as invisible as possible, it will help to add believability to your handicraft.

Done pears, apples or watermelon slices arranged in a wicker basket. You can make it yourself, on the instructions presented on the Internet, or buy it in a store for decorating.

Crafts for children from light bulbs

Children's toys

That would take a child toy can be made together with him. To do this, put your brother, sister, daughter, son or niece next to the boy and together think up a new toy character.

Create your own hands piggy, dog or other cartoon character. All you need to create it is a light bulb, paints and your imagination. The process will not only calm and occupy a rambunctious child, but also bring you closer to him.

Magic Ball

If the child is older and the creation of such simple crafts does not interest him, you can make a magic ball. Every adult will be delighted by a toy with floating, slowly moving glitter inside. To create such an interesting toy, you will need ^

• Cork
• Light bulb
• Scissors or other sharp object.
• Wire.
• Glitter
• Water
• Glycine.

It is necessary to free the lamp from the base, and replace it with a cork of a suitable size. Mix water and glycine in a ratio of seven to three. Add glitter to the resulting liquid and pour it into the future ball.

The bottom can be decorated with homemade or purchased small figures of houses, animals or magical creatures.

Balloons

A craft from a burned-out light bulb, will be an excellent basis for making a decorative model of a balloon, to play with dolls. To create such an interesting toy, you will need a light bulb, art ink, brushes, sticks and a basket, and glue:

• Glue wooden skewers vertically to a small wicker basket.
• To them, on top, attach a cardboard or wooden blank, which will serve as a mount for the future ball.
• Light bulb should be painted and glued to the base. Such a small accessory will be a great toy for your child.

But you have to remember that toys made from bulbs and other glass parts can be given to children over five years old. Children of smaller age can easily break is not a solid toy, hurt themselves and others.

Handicrafts for home use

Household useful gifts are a great idea. And you can make them yourself.

Florariums

This type of decorative decoration will be perfect for lovers of both animate and inanimate nature. Old light bulb crafts will be a great basis for your future aquarium or florarium.

• To create this decoration you will need:
• Soil-it can be sand or a flower store bought at a flower store.
• The plant that you will keep in the bulb.
• Prepared base from the lamp.

What would make a floararium you need soil, prepared in advance, small stones to put in the bulb. Then plant the flower of your choice, it can be moss or succulent. Water the plant with a syringe, it will help you keep the aquarium clean.

In case you don't like or don't have enough time to take care of the plant, you can replace it with an artificial one. Large ticks will be a great addition to your composition.

You can place a mini aquarium in the bulb, but its inhabitant should not be a real, but an artificial silicone fish. Such specimens can be purchased in fishing stores, fishermen use them for bait.

Corkscrew

To create such a useful thing in the household, it is necessary to have:

• The corkscrew itself
• Prepared base from a light bulb
• Polymorphus

You need to pour polymorphus into the prepared base, and melt it. You can do this in a heated oven, in thirty minutes. After the substance used has melted, insert a part of the corkscrew into the bulb.

Then it is necessary to wait for complete drying of the polymorphus, accelerating this process will help ordinary cold water. After the substance hardens, gently break the bulb. All the work should be done with gloves, in case the bulb cracks, a cloth will protect your hands from deep cuts.

Storing spices

The unusual shape of a light bulb can serve as a great decoration for a salt pot or other containers for storing spices.

Light bulbs make a great base for any craft. Due to the fact that it is reused, the amount of waste can be slightly reduced, and your home is filled with comfort and colorful, and most importantly not expensive decor.

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