Turn the box over and poke a fairy light into each hole and you’re done.Led wire lights. Once you have made the holes, wiggle the skewer so that each hole is the approximate size of your LED fairy light bulbs. Be careful not to put your hand in the way of the skewer though because that could hurt! For kids, an adult may need to do this part. To poke the holes, you need to support the cardboard surrounding that space with your hand. Use a skewer to poke a hole for the LED light directly underneath each firefly. Once the paint has dried, glue the silhouette shapes to your box. Our string has eight lights so I made eight fireflies. Note: Match the number of fireflies you create to the number of bulbs on your string of fairy lights. If you want to put a firefly on a blade of grass somewhere in your scene, cut out just a single wing shape. Cut out and unfold to make a firefly shape. To make the fireflies, fold the black card stock and sketch a wing shape on an angle against the fold line. I created two and then covered the entire bottom edge of the cereal box with these, cutting them to fit.
Use the lead pencil to sketch your grass, including both short and long pieces.ĭepending on the size of your cereal box, you might need more than one strip of grass. While that dries, create the grass and firefly silhouette shapes on black card stock. You can paint the frame around the back too if you want, but seeing that this will be facing the wall I didn’t bother. Paint the base of the box black (the base is the horizontal edge, seeing we’re making a landscape scene). Use your round sponge brushes to paint a gradient of dark to light blue hues that go from the top to the bottom of the box. The white paint undercoat will help the blue paint stick better to the surface of your box and it will also make the colours appear brighter and more opaque. Seal the open end with glue or masking tape, then paint the front and sides white. Us the line you have drawn as a guide for cutting out a window in the back of your box. Use a ruler to draw a one-inch (approx) border around the edge of your cereal box. Round sponge brushes, or alternatively a kitchen sponge cut into circular pieces.Acrylic paint in white, aqua, blue and indigo (or dark purple).A set of battery-operated LED fairy lights (our string has 8 bulbs).
BATTERY LED STRIP LIGHTS DIY HOW TO
Ours turned out so pretty, I think it’s one of my favourite projects ever! How to make a light-up firefly art scene You will need: The finished cereal box artwork can stand up on its own and makes a cute Summer-themed decoration. It’s better if your string of lights has a battery-operated switch so that you can tuck it inside the box to hide it completely from view. If you do, then upcycle them rather than buying a new set. You might have a set of lights packed away with your Christmas decorations, or a novelty set somewhere leftover from a kids’ party. I pulled these off to get the plain set of eight fairy lights with a battery-operated switch. They didn’t have plain fairy lights in stock, so I bought some that had plastic rainbows over each light. To make our light-up firefly art scene, I used a set of LED fairy lights I bought in the party section at K-Mart. The light they give is actually a mating call, and the colour of the light can vary from species to species. The fireflies are silhouetted against the evening sky and their tail-end glows like a beacon. If you’re like me and have never seen a firefly, here is a stock image I found to use as inspiration for my art project. But they don’t really belong in jars, so I decided to create a firefly scene over a twilit sky. Like many people, when I visualise a firefly I picture a mason jar filled with them like a living lantern. I didn’t know this! Who said crafts can’t be educational too? Globally, there are over 2000 known species of them and they can be found on every continent except Antarctica. When researching this project I discovered that fireflies are actually beetles, not flies. They sparkled like stars all over the roof and walls of the cave, just like magic.
BATTERY LED STRIP LIGHTS DIY FULL
They’re not common in Australia and I’ve never seen one in person, although I have walked through a tunnel full of glow worms (which are the larvae of fireflies). Have you ever seen a firefly? They are incredible little bioluminescent insects, meaning they make their own light.
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You will just have to do the hole-poking with a skewer part for them, and maybe some of the fiddly cutting out as well. This craft is suited to older kids, tweens, teens, and adults - although there is no reason why younger kids couldn’t make it with a little help too.
Best of all, it lights up just like real fireflies! Today we’re sharing a DIY firefly art idea that doubles as a cereal box upcycling project.
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