An ordinary light bulb makes interesting toys for the Christmas tree. To turn them into fairy-tale characters you only need a little time and available materials. We offer you three master classes on making Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs with your own hands.
Master class No. 1: snowman made from a light bulb
The most common type of light bulb toy is a snowman. In the version we proposed, it will be an important snowman with a top hat on his head, standing in snowdrifts made of cotton wool. How to make a snowman from a light bulb with your own hands, see below.
Materials
To work you will need:
- ordinary incandescent lamp;
- acrylic paints for glass;
- black fabric;
- dry grape branches or wire;
- a piece of green fabric;
- orange felt;
- silver small beads;
- cotton wool;
- floral wire;
- scissors;
- hot glue sticks;
- heat gun.
Step 1. Wipe the surface of the light bulb and paint it with white paint. You can make the tone solid or apply strokes so that the texture resembles a painting. If desired, decorate the light bulb with a silver outline or glitter paint.
Step 2. While the paint on the light bulb is drying, use a piece of fabric to make a snowman hat. Take fabric that is dense and holds its shape well. First, cut out a circle - this will be the top of the hat. Place the remaining flap on the light bulb and trim off the excess to form the brim of the hat. Cut a rectangle from the fabric corresponding to the length of the circumference and sew it. Sew the resulting cylinder to the brim and top of the hat.
Step 3. Put the hat on the snowman.
Step 4. Cut out a snowman's carrot nose from orange felt.
Step 5. Using hot glue, attach beads to the snowman, placing them in the shape of the toy's eyes and smile. Glue on the felt nose.
Step 6. Cut a scarf from a ribbon or piece of fabric and glue it on.
Step 7. Attach floral wire to the base of the light bulb in the form of a loop.
Step 8. Glue the snowman's arms. They will be twisted grape branches or wire twisted in the form of a spiral.
Step 9. Glue pieces of cotton wool at the bottom of the light bulb. They will imitate snowdrifts.
Master class No. 2: New Year's candy made from a light bulb
New Year's holidays mean not only gifts and a Christmas tree, but also a lot of sweets that children love to enjoy. The brightest of them are candies in New Year's red and white colors. From a housekeeper light bulb you can make a similar toy for the Christmas tree, which in color and shape will resemble sweets.
Materials
Before you do New Year's candy from a light bulb prepare:
- housekeeper light bulb;
- water-based acrylic paints in red, green and white colors;
- glitter glue;
- glue;
- felt;
- floral wire;
- green material;
- scissors.
Step 1. Clean the light bulb from dust. To do this, just wipe it with a cloth.
Step 2. Color the lamp's swirls like candy canes. For painting, use water-based acrylic paints. They are easy to use. If there are blemishes or paint gets onto adjacent areas, they can be easily wiped off.
Step 3. Paint the light bulb base with red paint. After it dries, add a simple design using glitter glue.
Step 4. Cut leaves from green fabric. Take fabric that is not loose, so as not to waste time processing the edge of the cut. Glue a thin piece of felt along the central vein. From the outside of the sheet acrylic paint draw the veins and outline.
Step 5. Glue the fabric leaves and secure the wire in a loop around the light bulb base.
Master class No. 3: a hare for a Christmas tree made from a light bulb
The white hare with a tail is another animal symbolizing winter. It also looks interesting on a New Year's tree as a toy, and it is easy to make from scrap materials.
Materials
To make a hare for a light bulb Christmas tree, prepare:
- incandescent light bulb;
- a small sheet of foam;
- floral wire;
- cotton wool;
- red ribbon;
- bell;
- pieces of black felt;
- white acrylic paint on glass;
- glue with silver glitter;
- hot glue sticks;
- heat gun.
Step 1. Paint the surface of the light bulb with acrylic paint. Let it dry completely.
Step 2. Cut a small circle from a piece of foam. Glue it to the base of the light bulb and paint it with pink paint. Decorate the nose with glitter on top.
Step 3. Cut out the rabbit's teeth and ears from the foam. Glue them, cut the ribbon and attach it with hot glue along with the bell to the hare figurine.
Step 4. Cut out the bunny's eyes from black felt and glue them on.
Step 5. Roll two small balls of cotton wool for the front paws, two larger ones for the hind paws and one large one for the tail. Glue them.
Step 6. Use glitter glue to decorate the middle part of the rabbit's ears and body.
Step 7. Form a loop from floral wire and secure it around the neck of the resulting figurine.
The light bulb rabbit is ready!
Make original New Year's toys making out of burnt out light bulbs is not at all difficult and very exciting. They can be hung on the Christmas tree or decorated in the interior, or given as a gift. As they say, fashionable, cheap and cheerful.
And such toys also add a touch of warmth, bring joy and, as they believed in the old days, fulfillment of desires. After all, our ancestors decorated Christmas trees with their own hands, and while they were creating the toy, they thought about their desires and how they would like to live in the new year. After they hung them on the tree, the desire was launched into the Universe and began to work.
You can involve children in the process of creating Christmas tree decorations from burnt out light bulbs; they really love such activities. But they must work with light bulbs under the supervision of adults, as they can injure themselves.
Toy options can be very different, for example:
- Draw a funny face and stick a bow or a hat from an egg carton on top (see video tutorial below)
- Wrap in paper or cloth
- Stick on sparkles, beads, rhinestones, sequins and so on
- Place figures, glitter, and confetti in the light bulb.
- And the easiest option is to simply paint the light bulb with spray paint and tie it with a bow
- Or make Christmas decorations from old light bulbs and glitter
To do this, you need to cover the light bulbs with PVA glue and roll the lamp in glitter. Fast, inexpensive and very beautiful. Is it true?
Or combine everything together.
And in order to hang the toy on the Christmas tree, you need to pierce the base and thread a thread there or simply wrap it around the base.
Or you can take a frosted light bulb; you don’t need to paint it.
How to make Christmas tree decorations with your own hands from light bulbs
You need to prepare for production:
- frosted light bulb
- Egg cartons
- Colored paper
- Adhesive tape for gluing
- A strong thread
- Regular marker and gouache for coloring
Everything is done very simply. If you want to make a hat like in the picture, then take an egg carton and cut out a tulip.
Or place paper on tape to wrap around the plinth and leave about an inch on both sides to complete the circle. And the base needs to be wrapped with thread so that the tape sticks to it.
After this, we wrap the base in paper. And glue a bow there.
Watch the video tutorial to see how easy it is to do it
Here is a video tutorial on how to make a toy using acrylic paints.
HAND MADE Incandescent lamp toy “Snowman”
Look how cute the snowman turns out.
Used in creation:
- Burnt out light bulb
- Acrylic paints
- Acrylic primer and sponge for painting (or use a frosted bulb to avoid painting)
- A piece of white felt for the stand (or other suitable material)
- A piece of fabric for a scarf
- Chenille stick (metal base with wound wool) for handles
- Loop tape and glue
The principle of action is clear to you, but here are a few more ideas for your inspiration.
I once saw on the Internet New Year’s toys made with my own hands from light bulbs) I really liked this idea (because I’m already pretty tired of plastic New Year’s toys) and now, when I still have time to start making such toys, I’m picking up all required material. I suggest you, who are interested in this idea, to join. Moreover, such creations will appeal exclusively to all children, and therefore, for some time, computer games will be able to fade into the background.
The closer the New Year holidays come, the more you want to create! And the most rewarding time for making your own New Year's decorations right now. You can create them from anything, for example, you can make Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs.
Ideally, to do this, take the accumulated burnt-out lamps, but if your soul is boiling with inspiration, and your hands demand to create, then you can use new ones, which have been waiting for their bright hour in the pantry for many months. So what are they? Christmas decorations Is it possible to make something out of this ordinary and already useless thing in everyday life?
Cute and good-natured snowmen made from light bulbs.
Having been inspired to make toys from light bulbs with your own hands, the first thought or idea that comes to you is snowmen. On a primed light bulb, painted in White color, it’s easy to draw a funny face, a carrot nose is easily made from salted dough, and for true hand-made craftswomen there is the opportunity to make noses for snowmen from fimo or cold porcelain. The lamp base is perfectly decorated with a cute fabric cap. Well, you can also add stick hands by gluing them to universal glue-gel or glue gun. There is a huge field for imagination here.
That's all - wonderful snowmen in such funny New Year's caps will happily decorate your christmas tree! And they will also be paired with fairy-tale grandfathers, penguins and others New Year characters. Cute little animals and characters from your favorite fairy tales
Since drawing faces on light bulbs is so much fun, why not add more characters to your Christmas tree branches? Wonderful and very cute New Year's toys made from light bulbs - these are all kinds of little animals! Such an adorable pair of bunnies will look very cute! You can also provide the bunnies with New Year's caps, such as in this photo.
But besides bunnies, there are many other animals that we strongly associate with New Year's holidays. Which of them can come to mind? For example, a deer. Yes, yes, if you want, you can make funny deer out of a burnt out light bulb! And also New Year– the holiday is cold and snowy, which means curious penguins on the Christmas tree will be very welcome!
After the light bulbs are primed and you have a palette of colors in front of you, more and more new ideas come to mind. What other toys can you make from light bulbs for the New Year with your own hands? The sophistication of decoupage in creating toys from light bulbs
In addition to quite childish crafts that are distinguished by enviable spontaneity, you may wonder how to make a toy from a light bulb into a more sophisticated style. A technique like this is amazing for this. Recently, this type of hobby has become very popular, as it allows you to create very beautiful things without any special artistic skills. So prime your light bulbs, pick out some New Year's themed napkins, and create an elegant New Year's masterpiece for your Christmas tree.
The lightness of balloons.
If in the coming year the only thing you really want to get from Santa Claus is a trip to somewhere far away and warmer, or even better - several trips a year, then the Christmas tree will need to be decorated... That's right! Balloons!
You can create an elegant, lace openwork by choosing multi-colored threads for work. Smooth silk threads will create a classic lace design and will make your items more sophisticated.
Simple and tasteful
Well, if you want to get maximum effect, spending minimal effort - you can go the simplest way. Having painted the light bulbs in different colors, you can sprinkle them with dry glitter on an adhesive base, or use ready-made glitter for decoration in a tube. You can make the toys either completely shiny or alternate matte and shiny stripes.
These toys made from old unwanted light bulbs will look very impressive! Especially if they are decorated with shiny rhinestones!
For free artists.
Well, for those who confidently hold a brush in their hands, and a supply of paints at home is a must, you can paint light bulbs with wonderful patterns, turning them into real works of art. You can use clear ornaments or a noble floral design, or you can go avant-garde - in any case the result will be impressive.
The options can be very diverse. Can be used salty dough, cute caps and hats made of fabric, structural paste for creating icicles and three-dimensional relief, painting and decorating with sparkles and beads, and possibly tying it to a light bulb base beautiful bow. Choose the option that best suits your idea!
As the New Year holidays approach, an irresistible desire to create awakens, and it’s just in time, because we can save some money on Christmas tree decorations by preparing them ourselves for the holiday. You can create New Year's decorations from anything, for example, from old used light bulbs, if you didn't throw them away. Of course, new ones can also be used if you are creative.
So what can we offer? What new toys can be made from used light bulbs. How to breathe new life into them magical life and the fabulous, festive atmosphere of the New Year?
Cute snowmen
The first thought that comes to mind is good-natured, smiling snowmen made from small light bulbs. It will be easy to make them, for example, by painting a light bulb white; you can easily draw a funny smiling face on a whitewashed light bulb. Carrot-nose can be made from salted dough; real craftswomen may have fimo or some cold porcelain. The base of a light bulb can be easily and very cutely decorated with a small cap made of fabric. Handles made from sticks can be glued to universal adhesive gel. It will make a very funny face and an attractive decoration for the New Year tree.
The snowman can be simplified by, for example, covering the entire light bulb with glue and sprinkling it with white or silver sparkles. Using rhinestones or paint on top, draw noses, coal eyes, a sweet smile and buttons. Handles made from sticks are a must-have attribute for a snowman!
Grandfather Frost will be in time for them. It will be even easier to make if you have brushes and paint. A beard can be made from cotton wool, as the well-known poem says. However, you can draw not only Santa Claus, but also the same snowman, and penguin, and New Year's bottle champagne.
Animals from famous fairy tales: making Christmas tree decorations from old light bulbs
If you can draw the faces of famous heroes, then you can diversify the Christmas tree branches with cute faces of animals from different fairy-tale heroes. Light bulbs instantly turn into bright, familiar characters.
Speaking of a couple of reindeer for Santa Claus. They, like snowmen, can be drawn on a primed light bulb, adding horns made of dough or cardboard, and decorating them with the same bright New Year's hats.
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The sophistication of decoupage: master class on decoupage of an old light bulb
Of course, the painted faces are too simple and lack some kind of sophisticated work. The decoupage technique will be just right. An exquisite, beautiful Christmas tree toy will come from simple New Year's napkins and will not require artistic skills such as character drawing. Simple, quick and very beautiful, especially if you add a little sparkle. Here is a short master class on decoupage:
- Prepare the light bulb for changing it, wipe it with alcohol, this will degrease it and remove dirt. Get some primer and prime the light bulb with a thin layer using a piece of foam rubber.
- After the primer has dried, paint the future toy white with acrylic, although the choice of color is yours, it all depends on your idea. While the acrylic is drying, choose a suitable New Year's motif, a napkin is just right.
- After cutting out the desired piece, use decoupage glue to glue a piece of napkin onto the dried light bulb. If extra wrinkles appear, you can go over the dried bulb with sandpaper.
- The toy already looks festive, but this is not enough, there is not enough background decor. Using a sponge, add a little blue tint to the toy at the bottom and top. Glitter will add a festive touch to the toy; you can use it to outline a picture, an inscription, or draw a snowflake. A pair of large snowflakes and small dots near the base will not harm the toy.
- Secure your piece with glossy acrylic and add a thread. If desired, the base can be masked with an acrylic outline, depicting icicles.
Balloons
A light, cute toy will hint to Santa Claus about your desire to travel. By the way, it’s not a sin to decorate not only the New Year tree with such a toy.
Yes, old light bulbs make for a long journey Balloons. The base of the light bulbs can serve as a basket for travelers, and the glass part can serve as a ball that can be painted on the glass with the most different ways. Exquisite, light, sophisticated, no, impossible to match the right word to describe these beautiful products.
Openwork joy
If you are good with a ball of thread and a crochet hook, then the idea of decorating light bulbs with lace will not be difficult for you. After all, you can simply crochet them, getting a wonderful toy for a quick fix. Toys can be diversified with different thread colors, add beads, borders, whatever your imagination suggests.
By the way, woolen threads you can tie a light bulb tightly, with a pattern or shape, like a strawberry, for example, or a small mushroom.
Simply brilliant: Christmas tree decorations made from old light bulbs
Maximum effect and minimum effort? Of course you can! Having painted the light bulbs in different colors or covered them with glue, sprinkle the light bulb with dry sparkles - a trifle, you can decorate them afterwards with ribbons, rhinestones, and more sparkles. This toy cannot be distinguished from a simple Christmas tree toy from the supermarket.
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For artists
For those who confidently hold a palette and a brush in their hands, you can paint a light bulb in a variety of ways, placing on it not just drawings, but whole art, real paintings and incredible scenes. Pictures or bright ornaments are a wonderful design for a light bulb of any size.
A little for the base
It is worth focusing on the base. If painting the glass part of a light bulb costs nothing, then decorating the base is not a simple thing, it’s ugly, it’s made of steel, it stands out from the overall picture and spoils all the charm of the craft, revealing that an old light bulb is hiding under the Christmas tree decoration. Remember the base, decorate them with hats, braids, cotton wool and bows, depending on the design of the toy itself.
Options for decorating a light bulb can be very diverse, simple and crazy, bright, shiny, voluminous, decorated with bows and felt hats, with the addition of salt dough, sparkles, beads, and paints. Don't be afraid to get creative by inventing new characters to decorate your forest guest.
If everything is clear with the previous versions of Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs, then how to make a snow globe from old light bulb? If you want to make something truly original New Year's craft, then this master class was created especially for you.
Well, let's begin. In order to place anything inside an old light bulb, you need to open it and remove the filament. This is actually done quite simply:
Now that the lamp is free, you can put whatever you want inside, for example, a miniature Christmas tree and sparkles. Then you will get a real snow globe.
Instead of a snow globe, you can make a very personal gift for a loved one. You won't need glitter, but you will have to find a small piece of wire.
I once saw on the Internet New Year’s toys made with my own hands from light bulbs) I really liked this idea (because I was already quite tired of plastic New Year’s toys) and now, when there is still time to start making such toys, I am selecting all the necessary materials. I suggest you, who are interested in this idea, to join. Moreover, such creations will appeal exclusively to all children, and therefore, for some time, computer games will be able to fade into the background)
The closer the New Year holidays come, the more you want to create! And the most rewarding time for making your own New Year’s decorations is now. You can create them from anything, for example, you can make Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs. Ideally, to do this, take the accumulated burnt out lamps, but if the soul is boiling with inspiration, and the hands demand to create, then you can use new ones that have been waiting for their bright hour in the pantry for many months. So what kind of Christmas tree decorations can be made from this ordinary and already useless things in everyday life?
Cute and good-natured snowmen made from light bulbs.
Having been inspired to make toys from light bulbs with your own hands, the first thought or idea that comes to mind is snowmen. It’s easy to draw a funny face on a primed light bulb painted white, a carrot nose can be easily made from salt dough, and for true hand-made craftswomen there is the opportunity to make noses for snowmen from fimo or cold porcelain. The lamp base is perfectly decorated with a cute fabric cap. Well, you can also add stick hands by gluing them on a universal glue gel or with a glue gun. There is a huge field for imagination here.
That's all - wonderful snowmen in such funny New Year's caps will happily decorate your New Year's tree! And they will also be paired with fairy-tale grandfathers, penguins and other New Year’s characters. Cute animals and characters from your favorite fairy tales
Since drawing faces on light bulbs is so much fun, why not add more characters to your Christmas tree branches? Wonderful and very cute New Year's toys made from light bulbs - these are all kinds of little animals! Such an adorable pair of bunnies will look very cute! You can also provide the bunnies with New Year's caps, such as in this photo.
But besides bunnies, there are many other animals that we strongly associate with the New Year holidays. Which of them can come to mind? For example, a deer. Yes, yes, if you want, you can make funny deer out of a burnt out light bulb! And New Year is a cold, snowy holiday, which means curious penguins on the Christmas tree will be very welcome!
After the light bulbs are primed and you have a palette of colors in front of you, more and more new ideas come to mind. What other toys can you make from light bulbs for the New Year with your own hands? The sophistication of decoupage in creating toys from light bulbs
In addition to quite childish crafts that are distinguished by enviable spontaneity, you might wonder how to make a light bulb toy in a more sophisticated style. A technique like this is amazing for this. Recently, this type of hobby has become very popular, as it allows you to create very beautiful things without any special artistic skills. So prime your light bulbs, pick out some New Year's themed napkins, and create an elegant New Year's masterpiece for your Christmas tree.
The lightness of balloons.
If in the coming year the only thing you really want to get from Santa Claus is a trip to somewhere far away and warmer, or even better - several trips a year, then the Christmas tree will need to be decorated... That's right! Balloons!
You can create an elegant, lace openwork by choosing multi-colored threads for work. Smooth silk threads will create a classic lace design and will make your items more sophisticated.
Simple and tasteful
Well, if you want to get the maximum effect with minimal effort, you can go the simplest route. Having painted the light bulbs in different colors, you can sprinkle them with dry glitter on an adhesive base, or use ready-made glitter for decoration in a tube. You can make the toys either completely shiny or alternate matte and shiny stripes.
These toys made from old unwanted light bulbs will look very impressive! Especially if they are decorated with shiny rhinestones!
For free artists.
Well, for those who confidently hold a brush in their hands, and a supply of paints at home is a must, you can paint light bulbs with wonderful patterns, turning them into real works of art. You can use clear ornaments or a noble floral design, or you can go avant-garde - in any case the result will be impressive.
The options can be very diverse. You can use salt dough, cute caps and caps made of fabric, structural paste to create icicles and volumetric relief, coloring and decorating with sparkles and beads, and perhaps tie a beautiful bow on the base of a light bulb. Choose the option that best suits your idea!
