You can make XXL Christmas decorations for outside yourself cheaply and without much effort. Impress your neighbors with huge brightly colored fairy lights on the balcony railing or gift boxes for the entrance area that you can reuse next year.
Oversized fairy lights made from plastic bottles
Regardless of whether it's cola, water or soda - it collects on youtons of plastic bottles, you could forego the deposit and instead make an impressive, decorative string of lights that actually lights up.
- large plastic bottles
- Plastic cups (e.g. from pudding)
- Carpet knife or cutter
- Acrylic paints and brushes
- green spray paint (or other typical for string lights)
- white insulating tubes
- Light chain for large light bulbs (make sure that the light bulbs can be unscrewed if these are included)
- Hot glue
Optional:
- Bucket with lid
- pieces of wood
- silver color
And here we go! How to make the XXL fairy lights as Christmas lights outside:
- Cut off the tops at the necks as well as the bottoms of all the bottles you will be using. Be sure to leave part of the neck on the bottle to maintain the tip typical of light bulbs.
- Paint the bottles in typical fairy light colors such as blue, red, green and yellow. The colors should not be too opaque so that they appear like colored glass.
- Cut holes in the bottoms of the plastic cups through which the sockets, but not the bulbs, will fit.
- Spray the cups with the green paint outdoors and on a suitable surface and allow them to dry.
- Meanwhile, you can also spray the hoses and let them dry as well.
- Insert the sockets through the cups and screw the light bulbs tight from the inside.
- Now put the bottles over it. Fix them with hot glue if just sticking them doesn't work.
- Cut the tubes lengthwise and distribute the fairy lights inside. Feel free to double the giant cables you receive by twisting them together.
- Now you can optionally make an XXL plug. To do this, spray paint a bucket green, glue two pieces of wood together and paint them silver or gray. Cut a hole in the lid through which you can insert the ends of the insulating tubes. Put the bucket lid on.
Now you can display the XXL Christmas decorations for outside anywhere in the garden or on the house.
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Or just recyclethese materialsfor an extraordinary Christmas decoration!
A little more time-consuming to make, but anything but complicated, are pretty gifts that you can vary in size.
- wooden sticks
- Hot glue
- white wool (or any other color)
- LED fairy lights
- wide velvet ribbons
- Any Christmas decorations such as fir greenery, Christmas balls, cones and the like.
How to make the LED Christmas decorations:
- First make a cube of any size from the sticks. For example, they can be easily cut with secateurs and brought into the required sizes. Also design grids to create a more stable construction.
- Wrap the cube with the yarn.
- Shortly before you have wrapped the entire cube, put the fairy lights inside. Leave the plug or battery compartment hanging outside.
- Then you can start decorating. First, wrap and tape the ribbons around the box.
- Then attach the diagonal ties.
- Create with any other Christmas decorations.
- These XXL Christmas decorations for outside should best be placed in groups to really show off.
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Make an oversized cocoa cup
Is cocoa simply a part of the Christmas season? Show your love for the hot drink by placing an XXL cocoa cup on your porch! And this decoration idea also comes with a cool additional function: it can be used to store any small items.
- large flower pot in a cup-like shape
- Half noodles
- Hot glue
- spray paint
- Kitchen paper roll
- Acrylic paints and brushes
- cardboard
- Aluminum foil
- The construction foam from the instructions can be replaced with craft clay, play dough and the like
- Floral foam roller or other foam roller
This is how the Christmas decorations for outdoors are made in XXL format:
- Spray the flower pot outdoors in the desired color.
- Once dry, place the pot upside down on cardboard and trace the circumference.
- Cut out a circle that is slightly smaller than the one drawn.
- Cut the pool noodle to the length necessary to create a curved handle. The ends must be cut diagonally in order to form the necessary arch.
- Hot glue the handle and paint it the same color.
- Using red paint, draw the usual pattern for candy canes on the paper towel roll.
- Using crumpled aluminum foil, place the roll upright on the cardboard.
- Now cover the foil with construction foam or craft clay, while fixing it to the cardboard at the same time. Allow the material to set.
- Now cut small pieces out of the foam roll (floral foam roll). The cuts can and should be at an angle to give the impression of floating marshmallows.
- Paint the marshmallows white and stick them here and there on the cardboard.
- Also paint the tree foam to make it look like milk foam.
- Add a few details on the mug. A snowflake or other motif, for example, and also a reflection of light on the handle.
- Drop the cardboard circle into the cup. You can use the candy cane to remove the cardboard at any time and use it like a lid. Store any things you want in your cheap XXL outdoor Christmas decorations!
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How aboutthese oversized Christmas ballsfor the garden?
