Creating a Peace Sign using an old wagon wheel and white lights.

I am going on the assumption that most vintage wagon wheels are about the same size. Therefore, to begin all you will need are 600 white lights. A box of 100 lights cost me $2.69 each at our local hardware store. So the total cost for this project was $16.14.

Christmas Lights needed.

To begin, find a space that you can lay the vintage wagon wheel down on to string the lights. Before you begin, I recommend plugging in the lights to be sure they are all working. You never know and it would really be a pain if you strung all the lights on to find afterwards that one string isn't working...

To begin, you want to leave the plug side showing. That will plug into your extension cord.

Start wrapping the lights around the circumference of the entire vintage wagon wheel. I wrapped 10 times between each spool for a really full even look.

Hold the lights tightly in a bunch, it will be so much easier to wrap the lights around the wagon wheel.

Wrapping the lights around the wheel.

Keep wrapping until you are all the way around the wagon wheel.

Once you have completed the circle, it's time to start on the Peace sign part of it. Choose the spools that you want to use. One on top and two on the bottom. I started with the top spool and strung the lights tightly up that spool to the end.

When you are done with the first spool, you may start the other two spools simply by bringing the string of lights underneath to the next spool. There's no reason to start a new light string.

This is so easy and we have left the lights on the wagon wheel to use year after year outside during Christmas. We also hung it during the pandemic. It's so easy to create and makes such a bold statement for the holidays hung on a barn, house, tree, etc..

Completed Project.