Okay, crafters, get your brainstorming aprons on! We have a challenging question for you today! Reader Yvette asked on the Dollar Store Crafts Facebook page:
NEED CRAFT IDEA… The other day we Bought some light bulbs with the bent tip (chandelier lights) and they were the wrong ones. Does anyone have a good idea what to do with them!?
The photo above is for lightbulb vases. What else can you come up with?
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8 Comments
Julie
Wrap it in a lace doylie and tie with ribbon. Decorate with Christmas trinkets and you have a lovely Christmas bauble.
Kelly W.
Paint or Glitter for Christmas Ornaments!
Nicole
Put them in a clear glass bowl-it makes a lovely centerpiece for your dining room table! Easy and free!
Arrange a few of them in a starburst pattern (elecric ends in the middle) and glue. Leave as is or cover in glitter to make pretty snowflake ornaments.
I LOVE the bud vase idea pictured above!
I’ve seen regular bulbs painted to look like snowmen. Threaded area painted black for the hat and the glass area painted white for the body. Just add face and such. They were very cute. I bet the chandie style might would make cute santas, the tip of the would look like his pointy beard add a pom pom to the threaded area after it was painted red for his hat.
Paint some funky designs on them with glass enamel and dimensional paints and wire wrap the bottom with some beads to make a hanging loop for an ornament! Not a fan of the ones painted to look like animals and other things, but fun designs are a more modern take on the idea. I’ve got a box full of various shaped light bulbs for making fun ornaments to sell this fall.
I saw somewhere that someone had gutted light bulbs and filled the glass part with dyed cement and inserted a screw in the open end. When dry you break the glass and leave only the cement with screw sticking out. That might work to make hangers that you screw into a board?
8 Comments
Julie
Wrap it in a lace doylie and tie with ribbon. Decorate with Christmas trinkets and you have a lovely Christmas bauble.
Kelly W.
Paint or Glitter for Christmas Ornaments!
Nicole
Put them in a clear glass bowl-it makes a lovely centerpiece for your dining room table! Easy and free!
Chelsea
Arrange a few of them in a starburst pattern (elecric ends in the middle) and glue. Leave as is or cover in glitter to make pretty snowflake ornaments.
I LOVE the bud vase idea pictured above!
Meghan
Lovin these ideas.
Liezel
I’ve seen regular bulbs painted to look like snowmen. Threaded area painted black for the hat and the glass area painted white for the body. Just add face and such. They were very cute. I bet the chandie style might would make cute santas, the tip of the would look like his pointy beard add a pom pom to the threaded area after it was painted red for his hat.
Kristi McCandless
Paint some funky designs on them with glass enamel and dimensional paints and wire wrap the bottom with some beads to make a hanging loop for an ornament! Not a fan of the ones painted to look like animals and other things, but fun designs are a more modern take on the idea. I’ve got a box full of various shaped light bulbs for making fun ornaments to sell this fall.
Titti@ShoestringPavilion
I saw somewhere that someone had gutted light bulbs and filled the glass part with dyed cement and inserted a screw in the open end. When dry you break the glass and leave only the cement with screw sticking out. That might work to make hangers that you screw into a board?