How to Make a Lighted Easter Garland
Even though there are not a lot of Easter celebrations that go on in the evening, it doesn't mean your house needs to look drab when it gets dark in the weeks leading up to the holiday. As Easter approaches, you can have your home looking festive both day and night with lighted Easter garland. It looks lovey enough by the light of day, but when the sun goes down and the garland lights up it will dazzle the eyes. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- white holiday string lights
- Silk leaf vines
- Green twist ties or floral wire
- Silk flowers and buds
- Plastic Easter eggs
- Safety goggles
- Drill
- Drill bits kit
- Block of scrap wood
- Hot glue gun
Instructions
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Get some of your white holiday string lights out of storage, or purchase some string lights in after-holiday sales and save them for your Easter garland project. Plug in the lights and make sure they are working.
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Entwine a silk, leafy vine around the string of lights. Every 12 inches or so, twist a green twist tie or piece of floral wire around it to hold them together. Use a second vine, if necessary, so it will reach the entire length of the string lights. Cut off excess vine to match where the string light ends.
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Add some flower blooms and buds in spring colors to your garland. Space them out and arrange them attractively. Twist tie the silk flowers to the wire.
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Separate your plastic Easter eggs into two parts and put on your safety goggles. Take the bottom of an egg and hold it on your scrap wood with the open end up, like a cup. Put a 1/16 bit on your drill and drill a hole in the center of the bottom of the egg. Repeat this with all of the egg bottoms to make pilot holes.
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Change to a larger drill bit, such as 1/4 inch. Take one egg bottom and hold it open end-up on the scrap wood, and drill through the pilot hole.
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Try to fit the hole of the first egg over a light on your garland strand. It should be snug but go on easily, though the size of the bulb sockets may vary from light set to light set. If the hole is too big or too small, change the drill bit to find a better fit. When you find the best drill bit for the job, drill that size hole in the bottom of all the eggs.
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Put all the egg parts back together, matching up the colors. Slide an egg over each light bulb. Add a dab of hot glue with your hot glue gun around the hole to ensure the egg stays on.
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Drape your garland wherever you desire. Plug it in to see the pretty colored eggs glow.
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Tips & Warnings
Purchase plastic colored Easter eggs with pinholes in them. You will have less breakage if you drill directly into the pinhole.
Do not try to drill eggs with the rounded bottom facing up. They will crack.
Don't drill without safety goggles as some plastics can shatter.
