With glowing fairy lights you can make your home and garden creative and beautiful in every season. The twinkling lights create a romantic atmosphere at home and are an inseparable part of the Christmas decoration. Since the simple chains quickly become boring, you can spice them up a bit and make a creative chain of lights out of them.
Regardless of whether you want to brighten up the winter, spring, summer or autumn decoration, you will find several beautiful ideas in this article. Simply make creative figures that suit the occasion and insert the small lights from the fairy lights into them. You can make stars, geometric figures, flowers and many others shine and use as wall decorationLighting in the gardenor use in children's rooms.
First of all we would like to present a cheap and at the same time simple idea. This requires a simple string of lights, several table tennis balls and a cutter knife. Cut a small cross into each ping pong ball with the cutter and then insert the individual lights into the balls. This is how a ball of fairy lights is made very easily. Another cool idea would be to spruce up the ping pong balls with nail polish. This is what you useMarbling technique.
If you particularly like the art of origami, you can make a beautiful necklace out of colorful paper. You can fold popular figures and make colorful fairy lights out of tracing paper with or without a pattern. However, you should use an LED light chain to ensure fire protection.
The lights create beautiful lighting effects when hidden behind colorful tracing paper. Origami fairy lights can only be used indoors as they can be damaged by rain and wind outdoors. With the trendy geometric motifs you can make a creative origami variant and decorate a wall in the apartment, for example in the children's room.
To fold any figures out of paper, you should first find a suitable template on the Internet and cut and fold the construction paper accordingly. When your figure is finished, insert each individual lamp into the origami and secure with glue or tape. Finally, choose any spot to decorate and let the origami chain hang.
With a ball of fairy lights you can make the terrace, living room or stair area beautiful and bright. The balls can be made in any color and from different materials such as rattan, wool, crochet thread or papier-mâché. You can find out how in the following video.
You can make creative lampshades for the lights from disposable plastic cups and colorful fabric scraps. First, measure the circumference of the cup with a piece of paper and create a template to cut out the fabric scraps. Punch a hole in the bottoms of all the cups with the drill. Then paint the outside of the cups with Mod Podge and glue the fabric scraps onto them.
The more colorful and fun the leftover fabric, the more creative the necklace will ultimately be. When all the cups are finished with fabric, all that remains is to attach them to the fairy lights. Insert the lamps into the drilled holes so that the cups cannot fall.
If you want to design the children's or baby's room creatively, you can create a colorful chain and decorate the wall or the children's bed with it. This means the little ones have fun decorations in their room during the day as well as creative lighting in the evening.
And here is another creative idea for Christmas that is also suitable for children. The lanterns for the fairy lights are made from yogurt cups.
Here you will find another idea for designing the children's room. The lamps here are decorated with colorful plastic shuttlecocks, which provide both a colorful wall design and a beautiful chain in the room.
If you want to make such a string of lights, you will need an LED string of lights, shuttlecocks in different colors and a pocket knife. Remove the cap, put the lights in, close the cap again and repeat the same for the rest of the lights.
If you are decorating the apartment for a birthday, you can use creative chains as wall decorations. For example, you can make colored flowers out of construction paper and decorate the fairy lights with them. This creates an atmospheric flower variant that is perfect for a girly children's birthday party.
Simple paper cases for cupcakes and muffins in different colors can also be used to make elegant necklaces. Cut the muffin cups as shown above using a stencil knife or scissors and create beautiful flowers.
For the DIY project, you can also use paper cups and construction paper instead of disposable plastic cups and fabric scraps. Depending on the occasion, you can use patterned paper with different motifs and make a matching string of lights.
Carve a cross into the bottoms of the finished cups to attach to the lights. You can also make such a variant with children and transform the DIY project into a fun leisure activity for the whole family.
The chain with decorations can be designed as elegant garlands for the wall. For example, if you want to add some greenery to your interior, you can embellish it with green branches. The greenery can be attached to the chain with craft wire and can add a fresh element to any wall.
You can also find great ideas here:Decoration for January with fairy lights – great DIY projects
The chains not only beautify your home, but also the garden, terrace or front door. Since people mostly spend their time outdoors in spring and summer, we present a DIY project for summer fairy lights for the garden.
This playful version is also made with balls that are designed as pineapples using green felt. First you should make balls and paint them with yellow spray paint. Then cut out the pineapple leaves from felt and glue them to the balls.
As a final step, stick the lights back into the balls and secure them with craft wire. This necklace looks really beautiful in both sunlight and darkness and is therefore perfect as a decoration for garden parties with friends and family.
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