Light bulb crafts with your own hands - 5 amazing master classes with photo examples and ideas

Preparatory work

To properly prepare a light bulb for work, you need to stock up:

• light bulb
• pliers
• screwdriver
• thick rubber gloves
• sheets of paper

Cover the work surface with paper, this will prevent further search for small fragments. Despite the fact that the bulbs are made of very thin glass, there is still a risk of cutting yourself. Therefore, it is not superfluous to wear gloves. Next, we remove the contact from the lamp base with pliers. A screwdriver to break and pull out the insulator of the base, we do it very carefully so as not to damage the bulb and yourself. After that, you can use tweezers or small forceps to remove all the contents of the bulb outside. The final action is to clean the inside of the glass with a dry cloth.

Handicraft No. 1 - vase

To create a unique vase, which will bring the atmosphere of spring and coziness to your interior, you do not even have to do much. A light bulb, filled with water, can be used as a vase by itself. All that remains is to solve the issue of its instability. To do this, you can consider several options:

• You can make a whole ensemble of these kinds of vases. It is advantageous to beat the composition with interesting color and texture combinations and hang it on cords or beautiful ribbons, attached to the base of the bulbs. Such a decoration will definitely raise the spirits of people around, indicating the fine taste of its creator
• You can make a coaster for the vase. For this you can use any pretty board, textured stone, a beautiful lid, make it yourself from the wire.
• Simply use an old stand for a hanging candle holder if you have one
• The most difficult, but also the most interesting way will be, to give the bottom of the lamp a flat look with the help of a gas burner. Under the influence of high temperature, the glass will become soft and it will be possible to give it the desired shape. However, the difficulty is, in part, to correctly calculate the exposure time.

Handicraft #2 - snow globe

Such a charming handcraft can be made by hand as a gift to a loved one, or just to decorate the interior of the room.

For this we will need:

• light bulb
• water
• glycerin
• sequins
• wire or small decorative elements to decorate the inside of the balloon
• A small medicine lid to match the size of the base. You can also cut such a lid from a wine bottle cap
• stand
• decorative tape
• scissors
• hot glue .

To begin, prepare the inner decorative element of wire, it can be an abstract elongated figure, the outline of a flower or a twig of a tree. You can make a gift with a name, if you twist a name or the first letter of the name of the giftee from the wire. Then we fix the part on a plastic or cork cover. Pour water with glycerine in the ratio 7:3 into the bulb. Pour glitter in it. After that we close the light bulb with a cover with a decorative element, fill everything carefully with thermal glue and tighten the base. The final step is to fasten the craft on the stand with the base down and decorate the place of fastening with a beautiful ribbon. The magic snow globe is ready!

Tip: It is not recommended to give this handcraft to young children. The glass it is made of is very thin, which makes the product even more fragile.

Model No. 3 - a Christmas tree toy Snowman

On the eve of winter, and with it the Christmas holidays, a great idea would be to spend an evening with friends and relatives for the creation of Christmas decorations from old bulbs. You can do this by painting patterns or designs on the glass surface. You can glue the bulbs, using glue with sequins, rhinestones and small beads. And you can make different figures.

A win-win variant of Christmas decorations will be the snowman. To create such a toy you will need:

• old light bulbs
• scraps of fabric
• paints
• polymer clay
• glue
• Decorative elements: ribbons, braid, strings that can be plaited

Coat the light bulb with white acrylic paint. While it dries, from scraps of fabric cut out triangles, sew them to form hubcaps, the edge of which is decorated with fringe. After that, you can decorate the caps with ribbons, beads and other suitable materials. You can, for example, weave pigtails from strings. Make small carrots from polymer clay, which will serve as noses for the future snowmen. The noses are painted with orange paint, making black dots, for maximum naturalness. Draw a cute face for the snowman. After all the parts are dry, we just need to glue them together. From the rope to make a loop, with which the toy will be hung on the tree, and sew it to the cap.

Tip: To paint toys, use special acrylic paints for glass and ceramics. To create complex drawings, use outline paints. They only create the outline of the drawing, because the density of these paints does not allow the mixing of different colors.

Handicraft No. 4 - Christmas tree

Another toy with a New Year's theme. To make it, we will need:

• a light bulb
• green woolen yarn
• glue
• a star - you can make it out of cardboard or take a ready-made Christmas tree in the form of a star of the corresponding size
• beads
• stand

Wrap the lamp tightly with woolen thread, dabbing the glass surface with glue. Let it dry, and then on top of the Christmas tree we put a star, decorate it with beads, like Christmas decorations and fix it on a stand. The handicraft is ready!

Candle bulb crafts for interior decorations

Candles

Place a wick in the bulb of the lamp, pour in the melted paraffin. When the paraffin solidifies, the glass should be carefully broken and removed. As a result of these actions you will get an intricately shaped candle.

Candles

In case you have accumulated a large number of failed lamps, you can store them with benefit, making a lamp out of them. The size and shape of the product can be anything and depends only on your taste and imagination. Imagine the outline of the light fixture. Glue double-sided adhesive tape on the contact points of the bulbs and assemble from individual elements of the light fixture, placing in the middle of the socket with the working lamp. In such a technique, you can make both pendant and floor lamp.

Decorative fruit

The very shape of the lamp prompts us what kind of fruit can be made out of it. Of course in the first place it should be a pear. To do this, you only need to use twine and glue to wrap a light bulb, decorate it with a green leaf and the handicraft is ready. Having made a few of these fruits, you can put them in a vase, which in itself can serve as a decoration of the dinner table.

Such interesting and not very intricate ways you can find a use for old unnecessary things. And of course these ways can be even more, if you allow yourself to dream a little. And if this kind of activities involve children, then the quality of a great addition to the finished product, you get a lot of fun from communicating with them.

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