How To Make A Small Lighted Star Decoration

These DIY lighted Christmas stars are piece of cake to make, and they look neat indoors or outdoors. Put ane within near the tree, and see how the room glows!

Ahhh…the start snow of the flavor! Although I'm not much of a winter person (too cold!), I dearest the kickoff snow. For me, information technology is magical. It lifts me up, and I forget all about my dislike for winter. It also puts me into a Christmas mood. It'southward like what they sing in the moving-picture show Elf:"the best style to spread Christmas cheer, signing loud for all to hear."That's how the get-go snow makes me feel!

Are y'all wondering why I am yapping nearly the snow and Christmas when we haven't even celebrated Halloween? Well…we just had our first snowfall! The photo in a higher place was taken 2 days ago! It only snowed for well-nigh iv hours, but it was indeed so beautiful…and believe it or not, that was more than enough to put the Christmas bug in me!

Now that all I meet is carmine, white and light-green, and I tin can't cease singing (which, by the way, annoys the heck out of Greg, every bit it drains all the Halloween hype out of him…hahahaha!),I thought I should share my DIY Lighted Christmas Stars with yous.

Every bit we are nevertheless to put whatever Christmas decorations up, I had to use the pictures from final Christmas.

I promise these pictures are proficient enough to inspire you, because this one really is an easy-peasy project. And when I say it is easy, I mean it is equally easy equally hammering some nails into wood.

Ok, ok…I am done with my yapping, so permit's get on with the tutorial, shall we?

You will need v thin wooden slats cutting to whatever length and width you desire. I used 4 feet long and 1 one/4 inch wide wooden slats, as I wanted my star to exist pretty large merely non very beefy. The thickness of the slats can vary from ane/4 inch to 1 inch. Just you don't want any thicker than 1 inch, because the thicker the wood is, the harder it becomes to work with. Besides, the star would wait pretty beefy with thick wood. My slats were three/8 inch thick.

Once I had my slats set up, I laid them on the floor to create the star shape. Now here are some hints for you not to sweat also much when trying to accomplish the perfect star shape:

Piece of work slat-by-slat, and don't worry about getting the shape or angles correct when you lay your slats on top of each other. That is something you lot'll be able to correct at the very stop. I hope!
First, start with securing the corners. Do non secure the inner intersections until the very stop, considering that volition brand the slats rigid and volition not allow you to correct the angles at the end.
When securing the corners, use just a single nail or screw. Past doing and then, you are allowing the two slats motion and then y'all tin right the angles at the terminate.
If you accept a brad nailer, it makes everything even easier and quicker. If non, just use normal nails or screws.

Now that we have the hints out of the way, let's create the star shape. As it is easier to explicate with colorful drawings, I prepared the steps for y'all shown below:

Did yous become your star as perfect equally possible? Expert! Now, you demand to secure your star at the intersections so it won't deviate from information technology's perfect land.

In that location you go! You see how easy it was creating that perfect star? Now, let'southward carry on with the next steps: painting, calculation lights and some berries or other embellishments on our star.

I wanted to utilize some colorful embellishments on my star like berries or colorful Christmas ribbons, therefore I painted mine with 2 coats of Rust Oleum'south flat white spray paint. Only as you can guess, the color and embellishment option is up to your desire. You lot can become with red, green or any other colour yous like to paint your star. Or you tin can even leave your star bare forest every bit all will look awesome in their own fashion.

In one case the paint stale, I started attaching Christmas lights on information technology. As I was going to use some embellishments I preferred using lights with white cables. This is likewise considering I wanted the embellishments to stand up out more than the cables. But once more this is totally up to your desire – you lot can get with green cabled lights or whatsoever you have on manus.

I had two options when attaching the lights: either I was to wrap them around the slats or straight attach them on the face of the slats. I chose latter, because I wanted the back to be nice and flat as I was planning to hang it on the walls. But I have to say wrapping the lights around is the easiest manner to go.

To attach the lights, I used my stapler gun and stapled the lights on. Before stapling them, I wrapped white electrical tape around the cablevision at the parts I wanted to staple. This was an extra measure to make sure I wouldn't harm the cables by any means. You see…I know starting time-hand that you lot don't take chances with electricity! When I was 9, I got severely shocked by 220 volt alive air conditioner cables. Where do you recall all my free energy comes from? Hahahaha 😀 Joke aside, delight always recollect that electricity is not to exist trifled with!

While I was working with the lights, I likewise started embellishing my stars. Using wires, I attached red berries on one and Christmas ribbons on the other.

What do you think? That was like shooting fish in a barrel enough, wasn't it?

I hope you give these lighted Christmas stars a try, considering they make really great Christmas decor for indoors or outdoors, and they give a cute warm glow to whatsoever room y'all put them in. Perfect for the season!