Clear bulbs will give you the best effect of the light shining through the paint. You can use frosted bulbs, but the colored light coming through won’t be as vibrant.
Examples of appropriate paint to use are DecoArt Glass-tiques, Decoart Liquid Rainbow, FolkArt Gallery Glass Liquid Leading, and Vitrea by Pebeo
Use soap and water if you don’t have any rubbing alcohol. Dry your bulb with a clean towel or allow it to air-dry for 1-2 minutes.
You can also use Play-doh or some air-dry clay if you don’t have any blue tack.
Paint a detailed picture on your light bulb, cover it with stars or flowers, or simply make blocks of color for a stained glass or rainbow effect. For Halloween bulbs, paint pumpkins or ghosts on your light bulbs. For custom holiday lights, paint your bulbs red and green or with snowflakes.
Remove any food or cooking items from your oven before using it to heat cure your light bulbs. Place your light bulb on an oven safe pan if your paint instructions require it. Allow your painted bulbs to cool completely in the oven after curing them.
Instead of painting the design on the bulb, you can attach fabric scraps with decoupage to the bulb before gluing on the strings.
Glue 6-8 fall-colored feathers to the back of the turkey in a splaying tail pattern. Add a small straw hat from a craft store to the top of the turkey’s head if you want.
For best results, use a frosted white light bulb.
Allow your painted bulb to dry on a piece of Play-Doh for 1 hour. Draw Santa’s face inside the flesh-colored cloud on your dried light bulb with permanent marker. Attach a cotton ball to the top of Santa’s red hat, or the socket top, with craft glue. Wind some string or fishing wire around the hat with a loop for hanging it up.
Use a black permanent maker to draw your penguin’s eyes up near the hat and buttons down the front below his bow tie. Cut 1⁄4 inch (0. 64 cm) off the pointed end of a toothpick and glue it onto your penguin’s face for its beak.
Bend a 6 in (15 cm) piece of brown pipe cleaner into a U-shape and then make more small bends in each end for the antlers. Glue the antlers to the screw top behind the bow.
Wear gloves and eye protection while hollowing out your light bulb in case it breaks.
Empty the contents of the bulb onto a paper towel or cloth that you can easily throw away.
Fill your vase with water and flowers. Put water into your light bulb vase and some short cut flowers to place inside it. The weight of the water should allow your vase to stand on its own. [18] X Research source
