I hope you’re as excited as I am about the Holidays! I love Christmas so much I think I could post about it all year long. Lots of great ideas in that little head of mine.
Today I am sharing with you an easy way to reuse your summer patio lanterns by decorating them for Christmas.
To make this project you don’t need a lot of supplies and most of them come from the dollar store, even the lanterns. So this project is fun, easy, cheap and is perfect to decorate your home for the Holidays.
You will need:
Lanterns
Branches of faux Christmas greenery with pine cones and red berries
Little Christmas ornaments and embellishments
Red and gold ribbon
Hot glue gun and glue
The only thing left for you to do is use your imagination to decorate your lanterns (if you add decorative ornaments to the inside of your lanterns, make sure it will not get in contact with the flame when the candle is lit). You can look at my pictures for inspiration.
Those Christmas lanterns are perfect on a mantle, tabletop or window sill. You can remove the embellishments after Christmas and use your lanterns outside next spring/summer.
Hope you like them!
You can find more Christmas ideas here: Christmas
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Love em!
these are such great ideas 🙂 I wish I had the one I did last year to show off, I had sprayed snow on two sides of the glass part and wrote Merry Christmas, peace and joy……. I also do one with taking the childrens photo on the inside, I use battery candles loll but these are all wonderful ideas 🙂 if I ever get a camera I can show you a few
Your must have been so pretty as well. Great idea to put children’s picture to decorate them!
Love this idea! Very creative!
Those are darling and so easy to make. I would love them 🙂
What a cute idea! I could make these to be used year round. I love the warm feel that they evoke!
For me decorated lanterns are one of my favorite decorations at Christmas! While I haven’t made any yet for myself, every time I see them it just brings me joy! I will hopefully make some this year!
Love the lanterns. What a cute way to display them during Christmas!
These are simple, yet pretty!!
So cute and what an easy way to spruce up some lanterns for the holidays 🙂
Such a great classic Christmas look!
These are so cute! You did a great job! I remember having a lantern like this a million years ago and I got rid of it because I didn’t think I would do anything with it….now I kinda wish I had kept it!
Never throw thing away! Especially when you can make nice decorations like this!
What a great idea!! I LOVE Christmas too, so I’m always happy to see new ideas! I will definitely be trying this out this year! Thanks <3 Pinning!
A very simple and festive way to decorate using what you have. Great idea, Caroline!
So, so cute! We have lanterns that are thigh high and knee high – pottery barn lanterns – that I empty the candle and stones during the holidays and stuff them full of different sized, bright, round ornaments. It’s so cute. Love your ideas here!
Oh that must look really nice! I think I’ll buy bigger one and do that. Thanks for the idea!
Caroline your lanterns turned out adorable and, very festive! I love decorating with lanterns they add a nice touch to decor. Beautiful job! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Kim, I’m really happy of the way they turned out and I think I’ll be making more to give to my kids teachers.
These are so cute, Caroline! I’ve been looking for some lanterns and now I know where to look. I love that you can transition them from season to season. Thanks for the great idea!
Yes it’s really convenient and makes it a really inexpensive deco!
Very cute. I’ll have to decorate up the ones I have.
You should, they make the perfect decorations, even gift!
So pretty, what a clever idea.
Thanks
What a great holiday gift idea for teacher and coaches
Never though of that but your right!!! Guess I have to make more 🙂
They are so pretty. What nice Christmas decorations they would make, and it would make a nice group activity too. God bless! 🙂
Thanks, yes they would make a great group activity!