How to Make Light Bulb Christmas Ornaments (and where to buy)
Making upcycled Santa light bulb Christmas ornaments for the holidays.
Ingredients
- Lightbulb
- Paintbrush fine tip
- DecoArt Americana Acrylics White Titanium Snow, Warm Beige, Lamp (Ebony) Black, Melon
- Red Felt
- White yarn
- Fabric Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun clear glue sticks
Instructions
- Paint the plastic portion of the light bulb in white acrylic paint. Leave it to dry and reapply additional coats as needed.
- Cut a ¼ circle shape in red felt, with a height of 3”.
- Cut a piece of white yarn 12” long.
- Paint a long rounded rectangular shape in Warm Biege.
- Using the back end of the fine tip paint brush, dip it in Melon and apply two small dots for the cheeks and one dot for the mouth.
- Similarly, dab two small dots in black for the eyes. Add two smaller circles inside for the highlights.
- Fill in around the mouth using white paint for the moustache and then lastly, dab a dot for the nose using Warm Biege.
- Apply a dab of hot glue to the metal portion of the lightbulb and wrap the quarter circle felt piece around the bulb.
- Glue the open side of the felt together to form Santa’s hat.
- Take the 12” strand of yarn and place it half way up the length of the hat.
- Fold over the peak of the hat towards the side and glue in place.
- Glue the white pom-pom to the tip of the hat.
- Tie the yarn into a knot at the ends forming a loop for hanging.
- Wrap additional strands of yarn around the base of the hat and glue ends to secure in place.
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