Enchanting Halloween Lanterns - Magical lamps
In the long, dark autumn evenings, we often find ourselves playing with light: puppet theatre performances, glow-in-the dark toys, lamps and lanterns occupy our playroom. We worked on these easy-to-make lamps over the last couple of days to decorate the room for Halloween.
Materials
– jars of different sizes and shapes
– a can of purple spray paint
– black paint marker/black acrylic paint
It was especially fun to hunt for the jars. I wanted them to be different, so the biggest one used to hold pickles, and a couple of smaller ones had jams. What a turn of fate for them to become lanterns! The medium jar was standard sealer intended for home canning. It had a raised design in the glass, but I turned it to the back. At least, it did not have labels! All the rest of the jars had to be submerged in a sink full of very hot water for a while, then scrubbed to get their pickle and jam labels off.
Tutorial
2. Spray paint the outsides of the jars. The jars
need to stay translucent, so start with a thin layer of paint. Once it
is dry, drop a candle inside of one jar and see how the light comes
through. If you think that one layer of paint was not enough, you can
add another thin layer.
3. If you use our design, print it and insert into the jar.
Trace it with a marker. If you make your own design, it may be a better
idea to sketch it on a piece of paper first and then insert the piece
into the jar anyway. But confident young artists may want to paint right
on the jar.
4. I used Decolor Paint Marker (fine tip) for tracing the picture on glass.
It worked well. In the past I also tried acrylic paints, and they
should work as well. There are probably other options, so it is good to
experiment!
Now it is time to put some candles in and add some illumination to the room!
In the dim lightIn the dark
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