3 Ways to Reuse Old Christmas Lights

Decorating for Christmas is a fun activity that you can do on your own or with the help of your family. It’s very easy to put up your decorations because the hard part is actually putting them all away. You have to wait for another whole year to pass by before you can get them out of the storage area again.

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Fortunately, there are a few ways and projects that you can do to repurpose your old Christmas lights into something new to fit any occasion. Watch this video tutorial by HGTV Handmade on YouTube to learn how.

Materials for Repurposed Christmas Lights Ideas:

Flower Lights

• Faux flowers
• String lights

Geometric Lights

• String lights
• Paper scoring board
• Colorful cards
• Pencil
• Glue stick
• Boning tool
• Scissors
• Hole puncher
• Ruler
• Pattern (Click here to download the pattern)

Heart Lights

• String lights
• Utility knife
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Hole puncher
• Cutting mat
• Gel filters

#1: Flower Lights

Keep the lights plugged in while you work on them, then start removing the bottom of each flower leaving only the petals. Grab the largest petal, then insert it down the bulb, and keep stacking the next layers until the whole flower is transferred to the light bulb, make sure to press them down each time. The more layers of petals the more detailed the lights will be.

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#2: Geometric Lights

Download and print the pattern, then cut out the template, and trace it onto the card. Draw the fold lines, then score those lines, and fold them accordingly. Punch a hole at the center, then glue the sides together as shown in the video, and insert the triangle into the bulb. Make more triangles in different colors, then insert them into all of the remaining bulbs.

#3: Heart Lights

Draw a heart on a paper, then place a gel filter over it, and trace the heart shape a couple of times. Cut out the heart shape and do the same steps using different colors of gel filters, then remove the film on either side of the heart gel filter, and punch a hole in the center. Insert them down each of the bulbs and light them up.

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3 Ways to Reuse Old Christmas Lights