Beautiful New Year's toys made from old light bulbs? Why not! No one will understand what these wonderful toys are made of unless their secret is revealed.

Light bulb toys: master class

Option 1

Now we’ll look in detail at how to make such a beautiful Christmas tree toy from an old light bulb.

1. Cover the light bulb with acrylic paint.

2. After the light bulb has dried, draw a face on it with a simple pencil.

3. The last stage is to paint the face with acrylic paints and attach a hand-sewn “hat”. Instead of a hat, you can decorate the face with cardboard “wings” and curls made of thread. Then you will get such a cute angel.

In general, options for decorating Christmas tree decorations using acrylic paint are limited only by your imagination. If you add plastic to the paint, you can create cute and funny characters with arms, a large beard and mustache.

Option 2

How to make a Christmas tree toy from a light bulb, lurex threads and yarn:

1. Choose beautiful threads with lurex - they will shine and give the toy an elegant look.

2. Tie the light bulb with thread using a small hook. To do this, 5 air loops are collected and gathered into a ring. First, a fabric is knitted from single crochets - this is how the bottom is formed.

3. This is what the toy looks like from below:

4. Then the entire toy is tied with a fantasy pattern.

5. To make the toy look complete, attach a bow, and stick rhinestones in the space free from threads. The toy is ready.

Christmas tree decorations made from a light bulb in the shape of a “candle” will look great as a tied toy, especially if you choose contrasting threads and rhinestones:

Option 3

Golden New Year's toys from used light bulbs:

1. We make a hole in the base of the light bulb for the future loop.

2. Immediately thread the wire into the resulting hole. If you first paint the ball and then thread the loop, you can tear off the paint.

3. We hang the light bulb and paint the ball with gold spray paint. Naturally, you shouldn’t paint a light bulb indoors - the smell will spread throughout the entire apartment, and you can’t get rid of it by weathering. It is better to carry out the entire procedure on the balcony.

4. After the ball dries, add a ribbon. Ready!

The closer the New Year holidays come, the more you want to create! And the most rewarding time for making your own New Year’s decorations is now. You can create them from anything, for example, you can make Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs. Ideally, to do this, take the accumulated burnt out lamps, but if your soul is boiling with inspiration, and your hands demand to create, then you can use new ones, which have been waiting for their bright hour for many months.

So what kind of Christmas tree decorations can be made from this ordinary and already useless thing in everyday life? Today “Dream House” will both tell and show what New Year’s toys can be made from light bulbs.

Cute and good-natured snowmen made from light bulbs

Having been inspired to make toys from light bulbs with your own hands, the first thought or idea that comes to mind is snowmen.

It’s easy to draw a funny face on a primed light bulb painted white, a carrot nose can be easily made from salt dough, and for true hand-made craftswomen there is the opportunity to make noses for snowmen from fimo or cold. The lamp base is perfectly decorated with a cute fabric cap. Well, you can also add stick hands by gluing them on a universal glue gel or with a glue gun.

That's all - wonderful snowmen in such funny New Year's caps will happily decorate yours! And they will also be paired with fairy-tale grandfathers, penguins and other New Year’s characters.

Cute little animals and characters from your favorite fairy tales

Since drawing faces on light bulbs is so much fun, why not add more characters to your Christmas tree branches? Wonderful and very cute New Year's toys made from light bulbs - these are all kinds of little animals!

Such an adorable pair of bunnies will look very cute!

You can also provide the bunnies with New Year's caps, such as in this photo.

But besides bunnies, there are many other animals that we strongly associate with the New Year holidays. Which of them can come to mind? For example, a deer. Yes, yes, if you want, you can make funny deer out of a burnt out light bulb!

And New Year is a cold, snowy holiday, which means curious penguins on the Christmas tree will be very welcome!

New Year's toys made from light bulbs photo

Harmful gremlins in Christmas hats? Why not!

What kind of toy can you make from a light bulb?

If you take a light bulb shaped like an onion, it will make a funny Cipollino.

After the light bulbs are primed and you have a palette of colors in front of you, more and more new ideas come to mind. What other toys can you make from light bulbs for the New Year with your own hands?

The sophistication of decoupage in creating toys from light bulbs

In addition to quite childish crafts that are distinguished by enviable spontaneity, you might wonder how to make a light bulb toy in a more sophisticated style. A technique such as decoupage is amazingly suitable for this.

Recently, this type of hobby has become very popular, as it allows you to create very beautiful things without any special artistic skills. So prime your light bulbs, pick out some New Year's themed napkins, and create an elegant New Year's masterpiece for your Christmas tree.

Lightness of balloons

If in the coming year the only thing you really want to get from Santa Claus is a trip to somewhere far away and warmer, or even better - several trips a year, then the Christmas tree will need to be decorated... That's right! Balloons!

Used light bulbs make amazing, wonderful balloons that invite you to travel around the world! The lamp base turns into a basket for travelers, and the round part directly into the balloon itself. If you make all the balls in the same style, painting them with an outline on the glass, you will get a very elegant outfit for your Christmas tree.

Well, if you want to make them bright and varied, then they will fit perfectly with the rest of the Christmas tree decorations.

Lacy perfection

If you're good at crocheting, this would be a great idea for decorating light bulbs! After all, you can simply crochet them and end up with amazing New Year’s toys made from burnt out light bulbs.

You can create an elegant, lace openwork by choosing multi-colored threads for work. Smooth silk threads will create a classic lace design and will make the products more sophisticated.

But if you take thick woolen threads, the toys will turn out to be more fun and charismatic, and you can come up with a lot of ideas for tight knitting, you can knit a fungus, or you can knit a juicy strawberry!

Simple and tasteful

Well, if you want to get the maximum effect with minimal effort, you can go the simplest route. Having painted the light bulbs in different colors, you can sprinkle them with dry glitter on an adhesive base, or use ready-made glitter for decoration in a tube. You can make the toys either completely shiny or alternate matte and shiny stripes.

These toys made from old unwanted light bulbs will look very impressive! Especially if they are decorated with shiny rhinestones!

For free artists

Well, for those who confidently hold a brush in their hands, and a supply of paints at home is a must, you can paint light bulbs with wonderful patterns, turning them into real works of art.

You can use clear ornaments or a noble floral design, or you can go avant-garde - in any case, the result will be impressive.

And finally: decorate the light bulb base

When decorating lamps in this way, the main issue will be the decoration of an ugly base, which can give away a simple, unremarkable light bulb in a New Year's toy, and, what's more, it's also burnt out. That is why, when making a princess out of Cinderella, the good fairy treated the shoes in a special way, understanding perfectly well that a beautiful dress is good, but ugly shoes will ruin the whole impression! This is exactly what should be taken into account when creating Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs; you should not forget about processing the base.

Every day of this year brings the New Year holiday closer to us. And there are probably few people who don’t love him. What is a holiday? Still, these are not delicious dishes on the table and the opportunity not to go to work, but high spirits, the joy of time spent with friends and loved ones. It's time to start creating a good mood! Finish all the important things and start preparing for the holiday. Pre-holiday chores will help put you in a good mood, and this includes decorating your home for the holiday. Handmade crafts are lively, warm and create the atmosphere of your home. Today I will tell you what can be made using old, “burnt out” light bulbs.

To start making crafts from light bulbs, prepare:

• light bulbs of different sizes
• paints (watercolor, gouache or acrylic)
• 2-3 brushes
• small pieces of fabric
• glue (in tubes, it’s better to take supergel, it dries quickly) or a glue gun for hot glue
• acrylic varnish (available in craft stores)
• if there are plastic eyes
• twine or thread
• braid
• scissors
• sparkles, beads, rhinestones

Several methods have been invented for making Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs. One of them It’s very simple: apply glue from a tube to a light bulb and sprinkle it with glitter. You need to hold the light bulb by the base and carefully turn it so that the glitter evenly covers the entire glass.

A light bulb smeared with glue can be dipped in glitter, the excess will fall off, and those that are stuck will stick well.

Keep in mind that to decorate the light bulbs you can use not only small sparkles, but also stars, snowflakes, hearts and any other small decorations that you have.

Light bulbs of different shapes and covered with multi-colored sparkles will decorate your Christmas tree this year.

You can hang these beautiful toy light bulbs one at a time, or you can make a garland out of them. And there is another idea: stick light bulbs in a circle on a rim made of wood or thick cardboard and you will get a New Year's wreath. it can be decorated with bows, fir branches, beads or tinsel.

Second way is as simple as the first one: we paint the light bulbs with a brush and paints, and then on the dried paint we glue stars, flowers, Christmas trees cut out of gold, silver or colored paper. We make loops from the braid.

We use the same principle to design the light bulbs shown in the photo below. Just paint the light bulbs white. Glue on New Year's stickers. If you don’t have such a mesh with beads on hand, you can replace it with regular gauze. Glue a piece of bandage onto the base, don’t forget to secure the ribbon underneath for the loop. Let the glue dry. After this, apply supergel to the “bandaged” base, sprinkle glitter on it or stick small beads on it.

Third way Decorating light bulbs for the New Year is also based on gluing various decorations to the glass of a light bulb: beads, seed beads, rhinestones. The loop on which the toy light bulb will be hung can be made from soft copper wire.

And here fourth methodSuitable for those people who have recently done renovations and have some structural paint left. Do not forget that you can add any liquid color to this paint and then the toy will be the color that the paint acquired. Take a popsicle stick and carefully apply texture paint to the glass of the light bulb. Irregularities are welcome! Then, when the toy is dry, continue decorating it as you wish. If you want to paint a “face” on the toy, remember not to apply structural paint to this place.

Fifth method Making toys from light bulbs involves coming up with an image for the toy and learning to draw a little. You must figure out in advance what the future “masterpiece” will look like. Maybe even draw it on paper. The fifth method is to make a thematic toy, an image toy, a mood toy. You will have to carefully draw the faces of the toys and try to give them a good mood. Make “hats” from pieces of fabric, gluing them to the base. Don't forget to secure and glue the twine for the loop under the hat. If everything works out, these toys will become a real decoration for your home during the New Year holidays.

Such a curly and “well-fed” angel can also be considered a themed toy. If you look closely, there is nothing complicated in its manufacture. And drawing a “face” will not be difficult.

And such a garland of snowmen in multi-colored hats is also not difficult to make, if only there were light bulbs.

In any case, there are never too many snowmen on New Year's Day.

And these attractive cooks, aren’t they a miracle? But they are very easy to make.

And if cooks seem boring to you, make a tribe of savages or a flock of moles with shovels out of light bulbs, as in the photo below.

Savages and moles are not your thing, then maybe penguins will do?

The cute little bee is a light bulb painted in black and yellow stripes with wings. You can also attach a mustache made of soft wire to it.

The light bulbs shown in the photo below are painted in several layers of paint. First they were painted blue, and then after drying they were added white and vice versa. And on top we have already drawn snowflakes, stars and a Christmas tree.

Method number six almost the same as the previous one, with the difference that in that version the toy is only drawn, but here additional details are glued on. These funny snowmen (boys and girls) are made from small light bulbs. The noses can be sculpted from plasticine or made from colored paper. Multi-colored hats are pieces of fabric glued to the base of a light bulb and tied at the top with twine.

The variety of snowmen is amazing, but you can come up with some of your own characters. Hand sticks glued with hot glue (from a glue gun) look impressive.

You can come up with your own image for each light bulb; there is no limit to your imagination.

We draw and paste everything that comes to mind, as long as it is fun and funny.

And this toy got a quite decent nose, but the eyes had to be glued on in different sizes, because there weren’t enough of the same ones.

Method number seven very simple and does not require special skills or a lot of time. It consists of winding thick threads around a light bulb. Everyone who knits has a whole basket or box of leftover thread. So use them. The toy lamps will be multi-colored, because you probably have more than just gray and black yarn! And the tip of the thread, both at the beginning and at the end of the work, must be secured with glue.

Eighth method. Paint the light bulb as described above and dry it. Cut out a picture you like from a napkin or a magazine and carefully glue it to the light bulb using acrylic varnish. When the picture is dry, soak the brush in acrylic varnish and cover the entire light bulb. And in the photo that you see below, the light bulb was not painted, but simply wrapped and covered with the top layer of a colorful napkin, and then varnished. And next to the left is a light bulb, which is painted with golden spray paint, and the stripes are applied from glitter. To make these stripes appear, do not coat the entire light bulb with glue, but only those places where the glitter should be.

Ninth method Turning light bulbs into toys requires perseverance, ingenuity and skill. If you are such a person, try making such toys or invent your own.

DIY light bulb toys for the New Year: master class with step-by-step photos, interesting ideas and videos.

DIY light bulb toys for the New Year

Dear friends! In this article we continue the series of master classes for children and adults on how to make beautiful, original things that give a good mood from old waste materials.

In the previous articles of this New Year's series of master classes, we learned how to make wonderful Christmas trees from a variety of unnecessary things, as well as a garland from candy wrappers, and today we will make toys for the New Year tree from burnt out light bulbs. You can read previous articles here:

New Year is one of the most wonderful holidays, for which people prepare especially. The focus of such preparation, of course, is always the Christmas tree. They buy Christmas tree decorations for her outfit. Adults and children have great fun making homemade Christmas tree decorations. And they often use unnecessary things that have served their useful life for this purpose. And we again return to the environmental problem: let’s not litter trash containers with burnt-out light bulbs, but give them a second life by turning them into Christmas tree decorations.

There are many interesting New Year's crafts made from burnt out light bulbs on the Internet. It can be crocheted and knitted, sheathed with fabric, painted, or decorated using decoupage technique. It is perhaps even difficult to list all possible types of finishes.

DIY light bulb toys for the New Year: a toy using waste materials

The master class is conducted by Vera Parfentyeva, a reader of "Native Path", a technology teacher, the head of a children's creativity group, a participant in our Internet Workshop of educational games "Through play - to success!"

Today we will make an original Christmas tree decoration from an old light bulb. And for finishing we will take waste material.

Toys made from light bulbs using waste materials: materials and tools

To work you need:

- burnt out light bulb;

- tea leaves;

- grape or other small seeds;

- PVA glue, titanium glue, brush;

- newsprint;

— gold spray paint;

- bows from wrapping gifts, flowers, etc.

Toys made from light bulbs using waste materials: a master class in step-by-step photos

Step 1. The first option for decorating a light bulb is made from tea leaves.

Do not rush to throw away the tea leaves after using it. Spread it evenly on paper and leave it on the radiator overnight to dry. You can also use tea from disposable tea bags.

Step 2. The second option for decorating the light bulb is grape seeds.

Pour boiling water over the grape seeds or boil for several minutes and rub on a metal sieve to remove the sticky layer.

If you don’t have grape seeds, you can prepare other small material.

Step 3. Prepare the base for decorating the light bulb.

Cover the glass of the light bulb with pieces of newspaper and PVA glue in several layers, thus giving it greater strength. And the glue, thanks to these layers, will better hold the next layer of decor.

Step 4. We collapse the light bulb and create a texture.

Lubricate the pasted surface of the light bulb with a thick thick layer of glue. Roll the light bulb in prepared tea leaves or grape seeds.

Step 5. We finish making a Christmas tree decoration for the New Year from a light bulb.

To make the light bulb look like a Christmas tree decoration, you need to apply a layer of PVA glue to the base of the light bulb and wrap it with linen twine. Paint the entire light bulb with gold paint from a can.

This is what you get.

Step 6. Make a loop and a bow.

Tie a bow. Tie a string to a bow. Glue the bow to the light bulb using titanium glue or hot glue.

This unusual New Year's tree decoration was made from an ordinary burnt-out light bulb.

Creative task:

— What options for decorating light bulbs can you offer? Let your imagination run wild! 🙂 Make a Christmas tree toy that your imagination suggested to you!

Good luck and success in your creativity! A few more techniques for making toys for the New Year from burnt out light bulbs will help you.

Light bulb toys for the New Year: decoupage technique

Toys made from light bulbs for the New Year using decoupage technique: tools and materials

- PVA glue, glue brush,

- napkins for decoupage with New Year's drawings,

- white acrylic paint,

- acrylic contours for decoration.

Toys made from light bulbs for the New Year using decoupage technique: step-by-step description of production

Step 1.

We cover the glass part of the light bulb with white acrylic paint as densely as possible. This is the basis for decoration.

Step 2 .

After 10 minutes, apply a second, thinner layer of white acrylic paint to the glass part of the light bulb.

Step 3.

Cut out your favorite patterns and designs from New Year's paper napkins. Glue them onto the light bulb using PVA glue.

Step 4.

We decorate the light bulb by drawing elements and signatures using an acrylic outline.

You can see more details about this master class in the short video below.

Light bulb toys for the New Year: painting with acrylic paints on glass

Using this technique, you can make a snowman, a funny little man, or an animal out of an ordinary light bulb.

Step 1.

You need to prime the light bulb with a thick layer of white acrylic paint.

Step 2.

After 10 minutes, apply another layer of white acrylic paint, but thinner. We are waiting for the paint to dry.

Step 3.

Draw a picture on the light bulb with a simple pencil.

For example, if it is a snowman, then we draw a mouth, eyes, hairstyle, mark with a pencil where the nose will be - a carrot.

Step 4.

We color our drawing with paints.

Step 5.

We decorate the base of the light bulb. You can sew a felt cap onto the base for a figurine of a gnome, a snowman, or a little man. You can wrap the base with decorative cord.

Nose - carrots can be made from salt dough, felt, orange fimo.

Step 6.

If necessary, then glue additional handles, legs and other parts to the light bulb. It is better to glue with a glue gun.

Several interesting video master classes on making toys from light bulbs for the New Year with your own hands using this technique.

How to make a toy - a snowman from a light bulb: a technique for painting with acrylic paints on glass

You will learn how to make a snowman toy from a burnt out light bulb in this video from the Handicraft channel.

How to make a penguin toy and a girl toy from a light bulb: a technique for painting with acrylic paints on glass

How to make a Santa Claus toy from a light bulb: a technique for painting with acrylic paints on glass

Light bulb toys - a wonderful way of creativity and use of waste material, a way to give a second joyful life to something we no longer need. We wish you inspiration!

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According to tradition, every New Year, a home Christmas tree must be decorated with at least one New Year’s tree decoration. Of course, you can go to the nearest supermarket or to the Christmas market and buy a beautiful bright toy there, but we still want to invite you to make a toy with your own hands! And we suggest choosing a material for its manufacture that is not quite ordinary!

The news portal “site” in this article has prepared for you several photos of master classes on how in an original way you can remake old light bulbs into amazingly beautiful New Year’s decorations. Christmas tree decorations made from light bulbs will not only be a wonderful decoration for the New Year's beauty, but also a worthy New Year's souvenir for friends and family.

So let's get started...

Christmas decorations made from light bulbs

Christmas tree toy Penguin made from light bulbs

To paint the light bulb you will need acrylic paints in white and black.

First of all, you need to cover the entire light bulb with an even layer of snow-white paint and wait until it dries thoroughly.

Then draw the silhouette of the future penguin with a pencil and apply black paint. Draw the penguin a black back and two black wings.

Don't forget about the eyes and beak. These details can be drawn, or you can glue beads or rhinestones.

Glue a loop of decorative tape to the top of the light bulb.

Christmas tree toy Santa Claus

DIY Christmas tree toy Santa Claus made from a light bulb

Draw a sketch of the future Santa Claus onto the light bulb with a black marker. Paint most of the light bulb with snow-white acrylic paint, and beige in the area where the face is.

Using black acrylic paint with a thin brush, draw the borders. Use red acrylic paint to paint the metal part of the light bulb, and decorate the top with a fluffy pompom made from a piece of cotton wool. And of course, don’t forget to tie a loop.

Christmas decorations made from light bulbs

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from light bulbs

A very original and quick way to make Christmas tree decorations from old light bulbs is to coat them with glue and then sprinkle them with glitter.

This way you can make a whole collection of homemade Christmas tree decorations. Shiny light bulbs look very beautiful and elegant on the Christmas tree!

Christmas tree toy Snowman

DIY Christmas tree toy Snowman made from light bulbs

To create such an interesting Christmas tree decoration, you will need a white light bulb or a regular light bulb coated with snow-white acrylic paint, a small piece of fabric, buttons and a piece of colored cardboard.

Make a hat and scarf for the Snowman from a piece of fabric.

Use a marker to draw his eyes and smile. Cut out the nose from colored cardboard and glue it on. Buttons also need to be glued.