Pull the lights up through the hole in your large bowl. Take your first large bowl and set it on top of your upside down small one. Pull your lights all up through the hole in that bowl. Place your first bowl upside down, set it on a tray and place your battery packs for your lights under your this bowl. Wear eye protection, as these little bits are sharp and when you snip them off, they will fly off in any direction. Be careful not to get too aggressive, or you will crack your bowl. Put on eye protection! Then use your wire cutters to snip off any of the excess plastic. Go ahead and put the holes in all of your bowls.Īfter you have melted your holes, you may have little sharp raised pieces of plastic as shown below. You would like the hole to be this large to make it easy enough to push a bunch of your lights through. By melting a circle of holes, you will be able to gently push out the circle of plastic. If you apply too much pressure, you will cause your plastic bowls to crack. Alternatively you might want to try to use a drill bit to drill a hole in the bowls, but I haven’t had a lot of success with that method. Allow the the heat of the gun to melt the holes. Take each of your bowls and using an “old” empty glue gun and melt a circle of holes in the bottom of each of the bowls. YES, you can use one string of lights, but I like to set each one to a different display (see tips below). They also have eight different light functions so you can pick what you like the best. NOTE: The battery lights I use have a timer function so they come on each night for six hours and then go off for eighteen hours. The additional items you will need to make an ornament will be adhesive, sandpaper, battery operated lights, a glue gun, and “old” glue gun and some wire cutters. You will simply use that to hold your battery packs beneath the first bowl so you can lift and move the entire ornament without the battery packs from the lights pulling the strings back down out of your bowls. You don’t have to have a tray for a base for your towering ornament, but I like to use one. You will want to buy five of these bowls. This bowl measures eight and a half inches across the top of the open bowl and is three and three quarters inches tall. To recreate the same ornament that I did, you will want to buy four of this one. This one measures eleven inches across the top open part and is just four inches high. The larger of the two bowls is more ornate with designs in it. These are the bowls that I used to create these ornaments. If you cannot find these exact bowls, I have some tips for you I will share at the end of this post. I was able to purchase these bowls for $1.00 each. No matter if your Dollar Tree has already raised their prices to $1.25 as they are threatening, this is still a bargain project as long as you find a great bargain on the bowls. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. The best part of this easy craft project is that it requires no wood dowels, no tomato cage, no styrofoam ball, plaster of paris, ryobi power tools or old tires! Just putting this together put me in the holiday spirit! Let these twinkle for you all winter long! There is nothing particularly “Christmasy” about these, they say “WINTER” just perfectly. Get to the Dollar Tree and pick up some “crystal” bowls and you can have gorgeous light up decorations sparkling on your front porch this holiday season! One of the things I really love about these is that they glimmer like ice and can beautify your entryway all winter long. No giant lollipops here, just excellent way to add some elegance to your home. This easy project will add a wonderful glow to your front door. I am always looking for creative ideas to add a festive feel to my front porch for Christmas with some outdoor Christmas decoration.
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