How to make a lamp yourself from an ordinary garland in a few minutes?

03/21/2016 master

Thanks to a variety of handmade ideas, today anyone can make an original lighting fixture for their home with their own hands. Moreover, you can use a wide variety of materials for this that are simply lying around you. This article will talk about how to make a lamp from a Christmas tree garland.

In the process of making such a lamp, the main thing is to have a good imagination, as well as the desire to do something for the home, family and friends with your own hands.

I want a holiday

We all love New Year. And one of its integral attributes is the Christmas tree garland. It will be an excellent light source for a wide variety of lighting fixtures. Guided by various master classes, you can make different types of lamps from a Christmas tree garland and additional materials (discs, threads, etc.):

• ceiling;
• wall;
• desktop;
• floor.

Lamp option

At the same time, the lamp, depending on your wishes, can be made in different designs. This lamp has a number of advantages:

• gives a soft glow;
• creates a festive mood;
• easy to construct with your own hands;
• you can use both Christmas tree garlands and solar-powered lighting models;

Note! Garlands that run on solar batteries have appeared on sale relatively recently, so few people know about them yet.

• the possibility of using available materials - disks, Christmas tree decorations, etc.;

• With the help of a garland you can make almost any type of lighting fixture yourself.

The resulting lamp can also be used as a night light in a children's room. Here it can be stylized as “fairytale” clouds, flowers, trees, etc.

Stylized sconce

When creating lighting fixtures from garlands and additional materials, you can use any schemes and designs. It all depends on what you can find in your home.

Features of installing a garland with your own hands

Garland rain

In self-assembly of such a Christmas tree decoration, there are the following features:

1. Before starting work, you need to decide on the size of the future Christmas tree decoration;
2. Based on the size and number of lights in it, it is necessary to draw up a diagram for connecting the components of this Christmas tree decoration and calculate the values ​​of their main characteristics;
3. After assembly, the electrical circuit must be connected to the selected power source and checked for functionality.

Also, upon completion of all work, it is necessary to check the integrity of the wires and the strength of the solders.

What are we looking for?

You can make a similar lamp using a garland with or without solar batteries using the following materials:

• Christmas tree garland. Even 15-20 light bulbs will be enough. Instead, you can use a solar-powered light source;
• a couple of discs (CD or DVD);

Note! In this situation, it is not recommended to use discs with designs on both sides. They must be completely clean and mirror-like.

• glue;
• additional materials for decorating a homemade product.

Set of materials

During the manufacturing process, in addition to the materials described above, you will only need a glue gun to carefully apply glue in the right places. As you can see, all this can almost always be found at home. Therefore, it will be possible to make such a lamp almost for nothing.

Garland "New Year's stretch"

Another popular type of decoration is stretching. It is also quite simple to do, but it looks very bright and positive!!

To make it, you will need the most ordinary creativity kit: colored paper, or better yet shiny paper, thread, scissors, glue.

Then make some glitter paper rectangles or triangles on string and add the words "Happy New Year!"

Or you can make these charming flowers.

You must first make white circles, and glue a pink or red flower with a hole inside on them. We decorate the top with drops of glue with sparkles or beads. Now string them on a ribbon and decorate your room!! All is ready!!

Or make bunnies like this:

Or you can make New Year’s paraphernalia from cardboard:

Or ordinary multi-colored lanterns:

And also watch a video about how you can create a voluminous garland:

Work algorithm

The lighting device that we are considering in this article will always have a garland (Christmas tree or solar-powered) at its core. So, the lamp can be made as follows:

Disc frame

• You can use any geometric shape as a frame. It can be a cube, pentagon, etc.;
• a geometric figure can be easily formed with your own hands from disks. To make the disks into the shape we need, they should be glued together with glue;
• Apply glue to the disk and immediately apply another one to it. We wait for the glue to dry and continue to build up the figure using discs;

Note! one side of the figure does not need to be glued. Through this side we will place a light source inside the lighting fixture.

• After the figure is ready, a garland (solar-powered or regular) should be placed inside it. When using a regular garland, the plug and control box should be placed in the window formed by the articulation of the discs. It is also possible to insert several light bulbs into the holes and joints available in the figure;

Finished lamp

• When installing, the light bulbs must completely fill the existing hole. This will help achieve the desired lighting effect;
• after this, the remaining part of the garland must be evenly distributed over the entire surface of the geometric figure formed from the disks;
• several light bulbs need to be left in order to thread them into the last edge, which is attached to the figure after placing the light source inside it.

To make it more convenient and safer to work with a geometric figure when placing it inside a light source, all joints can be treated with insulating tape or tape. After completing the assembly of the lighting fixture, all joints can be additionally treated with sealant. This way you will achieve greater strength in the structure you made with your own hands.

Useful tips

• To get a positive impression from the implementation of the task, you need to make sure that the lamp is plugged into the outlet. Therefore, when laying out the garland, we leave a part of the wire with a plug of sufficient length to reach the outlet or extension cord.
• To avoid inadvertently pulling the wire and disturbing the composition in the jar, use tape and attach the wire to the jar.
• If the size of the container allows, drill a hole in the bottom of the container to quietly lead the wire out of the garland. It is important to do this carefully - wearing gloves and special glasses.
• Before placing jewelry in a jar, you should wipe it thoroughly, removing moisture and dust.
• If the main decoration of the New Year's lamp is translucent organza and ribbons, then it is worth using wire, which will maintain light fabrics in a spectacular state. The wire frame will not be noticeable and will allow you to create any shapes inside the container, from spirals to chaotic waves. By the way, the frame is also useful for a garland - carefully wrap the wire with lights and place it in the vase in any order, bending it in the right places to get the maximum effect.
• If there is no wire, and all the prepared decorative elements are quite soft and airy, then you should use tape that will not be visible from the outside of the container and at the same time will support both the light ribbons with beads and the garland itself.
• If the container for the lamp is a tall vase or even an aquarium, then such a design with a garland looks impressive without additional decorations. But if you only have a three-liter jar, then it’s worth decorating it - glue beads, seed beads, sequins and other accessories to the glass.

It will not be difficult to disassemble the New Year's lamp after the holidays, separating the ribbons, beads, garland - you can store this until the next holiday and delight yourself and your loved ones with a new lamp design for each celebration.

Final stage

The last stage, namely the installation of the lamp, varies depending on where and how it will be placed. You can install it with your own hands like this:

Ceiling lamp

• Using durable decorative ropes, the lamp can be attached to the ceiling or wall. In the first case, the resulting lighting fixture can be hung on a ceiling hook, and in the second, you can use the base from a wall sconce;
• if you want to make a table lamp or a small night light, then here you can use another disk as a pedestal. In this case, the figure of the lamp must be installed edge-on on a kind of pedestal. This will give it more stability. The lighting fixture should be glued to the stand using glue. At the same time, make sure that the control box and plug are at the bottom and hidden from view by decorative elements or the lamp itself.

Night light

It should be noted that this is a rather complex option for creating a lamp; there is a simpler solution.

Crafts from snowflakes for the New Year 2022

Of course, I couldn’t miss this sub-topic, because how elegant the holiday banners in the form of beautiful snowflakes are!

But I won’t go into detail, since everything is simple here: choose any option for cut-out products (we have already discussed how to make snowflakes here) and string them on ribbons, threads and decorate them throughout the house.

Ready-made crafts for you:

Volumetric snowflakes on the Christmas tree

Ceiling module

Wall stretchers, chandeliers

Knitted snowflakes

Prefabricated New Year's garland

Simpler doesn't mean worse

This method involves using the most ordinary plastic bottle as a base. It can be of any shape and size. In addition to this, you will need the following materials:

• a garland of the size you need, number of bulbs and color scheme;
• a can of white paint;
• glue. It's better to use superglue;
• tulle.

Forming holes

From your tool kit you should have a soldering iron with a sharp tip and a construction knife. Making a lamp includes several simple operations:

• make marks on a plastic bottle;
• We pass over them with a soldering iron, thus forming regular, neat holes. If it doesn’t work like this, then change the soldering iron to a drill;
• We remove the unevenness of the hole with a construction knife;

• paint the bottle with white paint. We paint in several layers to achieve a uniform color;
• We place a garland with tulle inside the base and connect it. The wire is routed through one hole. Place a lid on top of the bottle. This will allow the lighting fixture to be moved freely around the house.

Finished lamp

There is another fairly simple way. We simply place our light source in a glass vase/jar, alternating it with various decorative materials. For example, these could be plastic Christmas tree decorations. And, in fact, that’s all, the lamp is ready. A DIY garland lamp can have a non-standard and unusual look. A wide variety of materials are suitable for such a lighting device: soft toys, beads and buttons, glass pebbles, etc. Properly selected materials will allow you to create a unique play of light and shadows from the lamp in any room of the house.

Lanterns for shaped candles + garlands

Lanterns occupy a special place in winter decor. There is something fabulously romantic about its outlines - especially in our time, when many people use flashlights. But this is not a reason to throw such a wonderful item into the closet! Bring out old garden lanterns from the depths of your closet or buy them from IKEA to feel like a Christmas fairy with a magical lantern.

Making a lantern magical is not at all difficult: just place the garland beautifully inside, as in the point about vases. Do you want a special touch? Glue the garland to the walls so that it takes an interesting shape (see point 1). The lantern itself can also be decorated with a bright bow or a New Year's wreath made of pine needles.

Video about how to make New Year's decorations from plastic bottles

If you have bottles lying around that no one needs, then you are in luck, it turns out that you can make useful things out of them, rather, look and admire!

Here are some other garlands you can make from plastic bottles. However, beautiful things come out!!

Selection of necessary materials and components

LED selection

For a homemade garland you will need multi-colored LEDs with a diameter of 4-5 to 10 mm with a permissible current of 20-30 mA and a voltage drop value of 2.1 to 3 V.

LEDs

The number of LEDs is selected taking into account the fact that the optimal distance between them should be 20-25 cm.

Resistor selection

The number of resistors and the value of their resistance are calculated based on the LED connection diagram:

1. When connected in series, one resistor is installed. Its resistance is calculated by the formula:

R=(Uip-(К×Upad))/I,

Where:

• Uip – power source voltage, V;
• Upad – voltage drop across the LED, V;
• K – number of LEDs, pcs.;
• I – current strength of one LED, A.

Those. when assembling a garland of 10 LEDs with an operating current of 20 mA (0.02 A) and a voltage drop of 2.1 V, powered from a 24-volt power supply, the resistance of the only resistor installed in front of the first LED will be equal to:

R = (24-(10×2.1)/0.02= 3/0.02=150 Ohm.

1. When connecting LEDs, a separate current-limiting resistor is soldered to each anode of a semiconductor radio component, the resistance of which is calculated by the formula:

R = (Uip-Upad)/I.

Those. when assembling a Christmas tree decoration similar to the previous point, in which the LEDs will be connected in parallel, a resistor with a resistance of 1 kOhm is soldered to each of them.

Selecting a power supply

The power supply for homemade Christmas tree decorations made from LEDs is selected taking into account their quantity and characteristics. In order for all the decoration lights to burn equally brightly, their total voltage and power must be less than those of the power supply used.

power unit

This indicator is calculated using the following formula:

P=U×I,

Where:

• P – power, W;
• U – voltage, V;
• I – current strength, A.

Thus, for 10 LEDs with a voltage drop of 2.1 V and an operating current of 20 mA, at least a 24 V power supply with a power of 0.42 W is required.

Garlands for school and kindergarten for a competition from scrap materials

Now let’s talk about the joint creativity of parents and children, since I think that all children’s institutions have already given tasks on the topic of decorating rooms. Don’t stay on the sidelines, but create together with your daughters and sons, and my column will help you).

We will do this original stretching with you:

Manufacturing process:

1. Cut out the required number of Christmas trees from cardboard and decorate them to your liking with buttons and ribbons.

2. We make pompoms from green and red threads.

3. We string Christmas trees onto a thread using clothespins, and tie the pom-poms on a thread. That's all!!

Here's something else we can do with our kids:

Snowmen

Mittens

Frosties

Multi-colored fir cones