Light Bulb Santa Ornaments

[Sinclairwife]

Here's a great way to recycle light bulbs! Make a bunch of them to hang on the tree or give as gifts. This also is a great craft to sit down and do with kids.

Supplies:

Burnt out light bulb
small piece of sandpaper
white, flesh or beige, and red acrylic paints
small paintbrush
snow textured paint

Start with any size or shape burned out light bulb. Sand it lightly with
sandpaper so the paint will adhere better. Paint the glass with a base coat of
white acrylic paint.

Holding the light bulb with the skinnier side up, paint a 1 - 1 1/2" circle
in beige or flesh on the wider part of the bulb for Santa's face.

Paint snow textured paint over the white paint.

Paint facial features and rosy cheeks on the beige. Tip: The rosy cheeks
can be done with lipstick.

Paint the metal portion of the bulb red for Santa's hat.

Finish off by gluing a cotton ball on the very top of the hat. Also glue some stretched cotton around the base of the hat. Hot glue a piece of red ribbon to hang by.

[Mom23boys]

I made some of these a few years ago and gave them as gifts. They went over really well.

[Michelle]

Those sound really cute. Thanks for the idea

[homesteadmamma]

Thanks for sharing this with us.