Making A Winter Wonderland In A Lantern

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by Charity
5 Materials
$20
1 Hour
Easy

So I have this beautiful lantern from Kirkland’s that I bought a few years ago and for some reason, I have never done much with it. I usually just stick a candle in there and that’s it. So not too exciting right? This year I wanted to do something different with it and make it more Christmas-like. So I came up with the idea of this DIY winter lantern.

Supplies Needed For Project


    Lantern (or something similar) Fake buffalo snowBottle brush trees and bushes (basically any small Christmas/Winter figurine would do just fine. You can set whatever scene you like inside of the lantern which is what makes it so fun and creative!)Battery operated LED lightsGlue dots (to secure battery pack in place)


Fill Lantern With Fake Snow


The first thing I did was fill the bottom of my lantern with some of that fake snow. I made it kind of like a snowy hill and put more towards the back of the lantern, since the front doesn’t have much of a lip area and I didn’t want a lot of snow spilling out every time I opened the lantern to turn it on. Then I added my bottle brush trees and I put a big one in the very middle to center the scene and then filled it the surrounding areas with smaller trees and bushes.

Add String Lights and Attach Battery Pack


Then, I attached the battery pack of the string lights to the very top of my lantern with some glue dots. I had to add a lot of glue dots to it to hold it into place, but they are easy to remove so if you ever wanted to change it up, you definitely could.

Place String Lights In Lantern


Once you have the battery pack in place, You can arrange the lights however you want. I just kind of placed them around the main tree in the center but there really wasn’t any rhyme or reason to how I styled it. I think it made it look more whimsical that way!

Finished Lantern


So ta-da! There’s my DIY winter wonderland lantern! I kept this one more Winter-like that way I can use it after Christmas too. I didn’t add in any reds or anything too Christmasy, but if you wanted to go more in that route, you definitely could! I love how you can be super creative with this and create any scene you want!

Style The Finished Lantern


I placed my lantern on my little side table that I refinished as well in my office. I love the twinkle from the lights in there now from this little cute project!

Close Up View of Lantern.
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  • Carolyn W. Carolyn W. on Nov 29, 2020

    I love the metal box lockers. where did u no them?

  • Gloria Gloria on Nov 28, 2021

    I, also would love to kn I w where to purchase the metal lockers tower by your very cute lantern makeover. .

  • Ticia Ticia on Nov 20, 2022

    ok very cute but I am not familiar with glue dots. Where and how are they sold and are they removable? Thanks

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  • Marlene Marlene on Nov 20, 2022

    Love it! Gonna do this for Christmas! Thanks for the inspiration!

  • Cathy Cathy on Nov 20, 2022

    It would have been nice if you had a picture in the dark where we could see how it looks where we could see the lights. Very nice job.

    • Charity Charity on Nov 21, 2022

      Thank you so much, I tried to, but it was too blurry and didn't look good when I uploaded it.

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