DIY Christmas Star Light

It is the time of the year again when families start decorating their homes with Christmas lights and décor to celebrate the festive season. The star is a special symbol of Christmas for our family as it reminds us of the birth of our Savior – Jesus Christ, the Star of Bethlehem. Thought I should share a DIY on how we built our own inexpensive star light. 

Items:

• Battery powered LED lights (100 LEDs)
• Triangle dimensions 58cm x 50cm
• Blade or Scissors
• Cardboard
• Tape measure or ruler
• Screw driver to poke holes in the cardboard

1. Make the star

The first step is to make a star with two triangles cut from cardboard. I honestly did not measure out the triangle I wanted to create however the size of the cardboard determined the size of the two triangles. I had to be careful so the entire piece of cardboard I had was enough for two triangles.

I realized later that you have to measure your cardboard according to the number of LED lights you have. That could be a good way to measure as you want all the lights to fit perfectly on your star.

The LED lights were bought from a local shop in town for K15.00 and it had a total of 100 LEDs. To ensure the 100 LEDs fitted perfectly to form a star light, you may want to measure your star with these dimensions.

Once you cut the first triangle, then use it to trace out a second triangle and have it cut out. 

2. Glue both triangles to form a star. 

I had no glue so I used two cable ties to hold the triangles together. Once done, I used left-over black paint to coat the entire surface of the star with black paint. The idea was for the star to fade into the dark night and let the lights shine out.

3. Make tiny holes on the edge of the star

So the next thing is to start poking holes using a screw driver on the edge of the star so you can fit all your LEDs. I didn't really measure out the tiny holes through which each light will fit but it turn out quite well (surprised myself with that).  A perfect combination would be something like this (pic on right) that makes use of all 100 LEDs.

 

4. Start to fit the LED lights.

The next thing is to start fitting in the LEDs into the holes created.

Decided to add a hatch for the battery unit at the back.

 Once all done you can now test your star light.