Use lace doilies instead of crochet cotton to create a lamp with intricate designs.
When a decorating a girl's room, choose decorations, furniture and lighting that fit the girl's personal style. One way to turn a girl's regular ceiling lamp into something special is to let her help make it. By wrapping colored crochet cotton around a balloon, you can make a beautiful lamp that shines light through the cracks between the strings. Girls age 8 and older will have no trouble helping make this lamp, but leave the socket installation to adults.
Instructions
1. Install a ceiling lamp socket in the ceiling of the bedroom if there isn't one there already. The best lamp sockets for this type of project are a flush mount or pendant lamp. Screw the CFL bulb into the socket.
2. Spread newspaper over your work surface to prevent a mess.
3. Blow up the balloon as far as it will go without popping it, and tie a knot at the opening. Turn the balloon so that the knot points up.
4. Spread wallpaper glue over the balloon in a thick layer using a paintbrush, but do not cover the knot.
5. Press an end of the crochet cotton to the balloon near the knot. Wrap the cotton horizontally around the balloon, making sure each successive line is touching the previous one or no more than a few millimeters apart. Continue wrapping until the balloon is covered.
6. Paint the balloon with the wallpaper glue again covering the cotton on the balloon. Leave the cotton string dangling from the bottom of the balloon, and do not coat it in glue.
7. Wrap the cotton around the balloon again, this time in any random design you choose. Continue wrapping until the balloon is completely covered in cotton and the end dangles from the top.
8. Cut any extra cotton, but leave 2 feet of it to attach the lampshade to the socket. Leave this extra dangling out of the way. Paint more wallpaper glue on the balloon and over the second layer of cotton.
9. Hang the balloon, using the extra cotton, from a high place so it can't touch anything. Let the balloon dry overnight.
10. Take down the balloon and pop the balloon using the pin. Turn the cotton shell upside down and pull the popped balloon from the hole at the top where the knot was.
11. Attach the lampshade to the socket by slipping the bulb through the hole at the top. Wrap the extra cotton around the cord above the insulated socket or wrap it around the lampshade holder.
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