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Old Posted: 29-08-2008 , 03:48 PM #1
beldarin
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Default Repurposed: Glass Jars make lovely lanterns.

Easy as pie, don't chuck your jam/sauce/baby food jars in the recycling, wash em, dry em and paint em!
you can use specialist glass paints from an art & craft shop, you can use regular poster paint with some pva glue added (though these will need to be repainted next year), you can use left over gloss paint, yes, even white! Don't fancy paint? You can stick on stickers, get the kids to do it.
If your great at art, they'll look fantastic, if your not great at art, they may still look fantastic, if not, so what?!?!

When they are dry, hang them from the trees, sit them on the wall, arrange them artfully in groups on the patio! If you want to hang them, use fairly strong wire, round tightly round the neck and looped up for a handle ,use way more wire than you think u need, and curl the ends into springy spirals. I'm going to hang some from nails hammered into an ugly concrete wall. Add a tea light to each one, and sit back in the evening and bask in your friends admiration. ;-)

If you leave them out they may fill up with rainwater, so add a tiny drop of bleach so they don't grow too much algae,

Here are some I made with my daughter and her friends, aged 4 - 8
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