Halloween is around the corner! Here are our favorite quick and easy ideas for projects that use lights that are probably already in your Christmas stash:
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Lit Halloween Cauldron Project – Witch’s Brew and Spiders!
Spiders, witches brew, and lights, oh my! We love Halloween! In the southern part of the US, we will do anything we can to pretend it’s really not summer any longer even though the mercury might still be in the high 80’s. Putting together this fun cauldron project to light our living room was a…
Easy Halloween Party Lights – Ping Pong Ball Crafts
Planning a Halloween Party? Decorating for Autumn? I love using ping pong balls to transform any set of Christmas lights into the perfect accent for a party. This time of year, ORANGE is the perfect color. Here are quick and easy instructions: 1. Assemble your materials A string of yellow or orange mini lights for…
Decorating For Halloween With Christmas Lights
Using Christmas lights to decorate for Halloween is a great way to put to good use lights that may only see action a few weeks of the year. Pull out your bins and take an inventory of light strings and lights with bulbs that might work for October. Look for these colors: purple, orange, yellow,…
DIY: Halloween Glass Blocks and Canisters
We love quick and easy and when it comes to adding Halloween to countertops, nothing is easier than this project. Materials Glass Block or Glass Canister Window Clings LED Christmas Lights Instructions Shine up the container!! And unpack your window clings! Be gentle when removing the clings, they can tear themselves apart!…
Halloween Lights: Lighting a Lantern with Fun Fillers
Have a string of novelty lights that need refreshing? Repurposing novelty lights can be as easy as replacing the string of lights as seen in this blog post or repurposing the novelty covers can be fun too! Materials Lantern – we found this lantern at IKEA Battery Lights Jack O’ Lantern light covers The Borrby…
Stranger Things Lights for Your Halloween Party
If you’re planning a Halloween party and wondering what decor might light things up, you might already have what you need on hand to recreate the Stranger Things Lights. The lights used in these shots are traditional, retro (of course!) glass C9 bulbs. Photo courtesy of Stranger Things Materials List C9 Christmas light cords –…
Halloween Crafts with Lights: Tomato Cage Ghost
Looking for a fun project for Halloween? This project will takes 10 minutes after you assemble the materials. The only difficult part will be stopping yourself from making a dozen of them! Materials: 1 string of lights – we used a pure white light string for maximum light and to give a crisp white feel…
Halloween Cauldron – Light it up!
Light a Halloween Cauldron! With Halloween just around the corner we love this project. Items required for this project: A plastic cauldron Red and orange chasing lights Black and white flame retardant sheer fabric Plain or chasing white Christmas tree lights Instructions Randomly mix the red and orange chasing lights Loosely enclose the lights…
Halloween Ping Pong Lights
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Lighting a Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween
In the Robinson house, we LOVE carving pumpkins. Here in Texas, one week before Halloween is the earliest we can carve our oversized squash since it is 90 degrees in October. (They almost mold the minute you cut them open.) This weekend gave us fantastic weather for all that carving and thank goodness for First Tee golf practice Saturday morning so Jack’s in…
Halloween Party Food and Drink Ideas
What’s a Halloween party without perfectly-themed food? Every party will be a little different, but here are a few ideas to get you started. Kids Halloween Parties Food coloring is your friend! Start with the old standbys – cupcakes and hot dogs and such – then get creative. Dye your cupcakes neon colors or even…
Halloween: A History or (A Little Light Haunting )
Who doesn’t love Halloween – the candy, the flat witches-who-crashed-into-trees, the candy, the gaudy costumes, the candy? And even better, Halloween is our fastest-growing holiday, with nearly as much being spent on decorations as on Christmas, and more being spent on candy and sweets than on Easter. Chances are good that you are…
Customer Question: Can I mix incandescent and LED bulbs on my C7 and C9 stringer wire?
Here is a question I received today from John in Coloma, MI: Hello…. Yesterday, I received my shipment of various-colored traditional “old school” C9 and C7 bulbs from an on-line order that I placed on your website approx 1 week ago. I am very satisfied with my order. These bulbs are placed on a special…
What exactly are chasing Christmas lights and how do they work?
We hear this question often enough that we thought we make it easier to find the answer here. Chasing Christmas lights are traditional incandescent lights that are built with (usually) 3 circuits that flash on and off sequentially. Each set has an independent controller that cycles through each of the three circuits (1-2-3). Set at…
10 Ways to Use LED Christmas lights all year!
The Holidays are just around the corner and just about everyone is already planning for decorating to celebrate Halloween and Christmas. Here are a few ideas on how to use your LED Christmas light sets during and after the holidays. 1. Walkways look wonderfully inviting when lined with LED Christmas light sets. Consider using light…
DIY: Milk Carton Ghosts
We love a fun project for Halloween! Milk Carton Ghost Luminaries are officially spooky. We’ve been saving the milk jugs for this project for a while, and we’re happy to get them put to work and out of the storage area. We have another tip…. rinse stored milk jugs. Thankfully, our video did not include…
DIY: Fun Trunk or Treat Project
We always love to hear what Dawn and Mike from up in Illinois are doing for the latest Holiday. This Halloween’s trunk or treat extravaganza didn’t disappoint. This year’s theme: Space Search the kid’s rooms. Open those science bins if you are a homeschooling family. Find every random Star Wars moon and chicken toy. (Chicken? Really,…
What are SMD bulbs? SMD vs DIP LEDs
LED? DIP? SMD? E-I-E-I-O? It’s a farmyard of acronyms out there when it comes to LEDs and Christmas lights and hopefully, this article will shed a little light on what these terms mean as folks plan Christmas light displays. Applying direct current to specific crystals to produce light was discovered in the early 1900’s…
How do I light up a pumpkin? Pumpkin Luminaries!
Fun Pumpkin Luminaries! Perfect for Halloween! Use C7 or C9 bulbs, a C7 or C9 cord and a few inexpensive plastic jack-o-lanterns to create a fun project your local trick or treaters will enjoy. Supplies needed for this project: C7 or C9 bulbs (sold in cases of 25) – note C7 bulbs have E12 bases…
Using Orange LED Christmas Lights
Decorating with orange LED lights during the last quarter of the year will make you love the color orange. (It’s the new “white” not the new “black” of Christmas lighting! LOL) Use this incredibly versatile color to decorate your Halloween party, birthday party, or light your Fall Holiday Displays. Be inspired by a few…
Lighting Your Fireplace!!
Note that accompanied this photo: I wanted twinkle lights but the gentleman suggested i try the running lights & he was right. they work perfectly! i didn’t even unwind them but set the entire group in the back of our unused fireplace behind the artificial logs. Very nice! Service is great! Even though winter is…
BUGS!
Looking for a fun way to surprise or prank family and friends? Nothing says Halloween like bugs. Materials plastic bugs mason jar LED battery light string votive candle holder Combine the battery light string in the candle holder and pour bugs on top. Leave in bathroom for shock and surprise.
DIY Wedding Centerpiece – Frosted Jar and Flowers
Materials frosted mason jars ribbon white battery operated lights floral bouquet Frosted jars can be made yourself or you can find them frosted from a big box craft store. See easy directions how we frosted canning jars with paint to make fun Halloween mummies. White battery operated lights fit into a mason jar…