Build beautiful lamps yourself from natural materials

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Make beautiful lamps together with the family from materials that you find in nature. So you not only have more fun walking together, but also enjoy building the beautiful lamps on rainy days.

You can use it to make beautiful lamps.
You can use it to make beautiful lamps.

What you need:

  • Root / strong branch / tree stump
  • Leaves and flowers
  • Old lamp with a fabric shade
  • Laminator
  • Laminating film
  • Office punch or punch pliers
  • Leather cords

Beautiful lamps with a wooden base and a leaf shade

You need an old table lamp that has a fabric shade on a wire frame.

  1. Depending on the season, collect leaves, e.g. B. beautiful autumn leaves, or flowers, and dry these finds carefully. You can iron autumn leaves dry. You have to put fresh leaves or flowers between absorbent paper, clamp it between 2 boards and put heavy weights on it. You can also clamp the boards together with clamps.
  2. You will also need a root, a branch or another nice piece woodthat can serve as a base for the lamp. Water this find so that insects can escape and dry it in the air and then again in the oven at 50 ° C. If you want to be absolutely sure, freeze the wood for a few more days.
  3. Remove the lamp base from the old lamp and mount the upper part on the beautiful root from the forest. Of course, it depends on how the old lamp is constructed. If necessary, drill holes in the root and fix the upper part in these holes with 2-component modeling clay.
  4. Remove the fabric of the old lampshade and use the removed pieces as a pattern or Template for the arrangement from the leaves or flowers.
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  5. Place the pieces of fabric on the table and cover them with a sheet of the laminate foil. Drape the leaves / flowers on it so that there is a beautiful pattern in the area of ​​the fabric. Cover this with the other sheet of laminate foil. Now laminate the film in a laminator.
  6. Cut the foil to size and punch holes around the edges. Attach the parts to the wire frame of the lampshade with the leather cords and you have a beautiful lamp from nature.

Other lighting fixtures made from natural material

Here's how you can make more beautiful lamps:

  1. Dry the material as described and laminate it.
  2. Build different bodies out of the foil, for example by cutting out squares and putting them together into cubes with the cords.
  3. Light up these twill with a string of LED lights to make beautiful lamps out of them.

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