3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

Favorite

How To Make A Snow Lantern

video How To Make A Snow Lantern

Make your garden into a winter wonderland with some snow lanterns! Let it snow!

25 comments

Feb 27, 2008. 5:26 PMGorillazMiko says:

Wow... another awesome video. This one is actually really cool. Unfortunately, it does not snow here. :-( Would definitely love to try this out though. Great job.

Jan 8, 2010. 1:33 PMferrari484 says:

If it doesn't snow at your place where do you live anyway (if i may ask of course). Because over here for ones. Our little country ran out of salt.
I live in the Netherlands by the way.

Jan 8, 2010. 1:28 PMferrari484 says:

Nice.

it's funny my brother and i made i igloo ones. And i lighted 1 candle it (at night of course). That created enough light already.

Nov 8, 2009. 6:16 PMbassclarinet23 says:

If you have walkway lights, you could build around it...less of a fire hazard.

Nov 12, 2009. 4:48 PMred-king says:

but fire is more awesome. xD

Nov 13, 2009. 12:55 PMbassclarinet23 says:

Touche.

Jan 8, 2010. 1:23 PMferrari484 says:

Yeah it looks good.

Aug 15, 2009. 2:02 PMredsuit09 says:

haha in Minnesota we have plenty of snow :) but at te moment its summer.... which sucks

May 12, 2009. 4:47 AMpeacenique says:

These are gorgeous, aren't they? I learned to make them as a kid while in Finland. Lining your walkway would be a beautiful way to welcome guests. My Mother has always made ice lanterns as well.

Aug 15, 2009. 1:59 PMredsuit09 says:

my family is from finland, i have always wanted to go there... the closest i got was england

May 13, 2009. 2:06 PMcomputer_guy says:

If you take some high intensity LEDs you can make the lantern different colors also.

Jan 19, 2009. 3:22 PMmandeep_619 says:

lol , i tried this it came out awsome, except i didnt use snowballs , i made mines with chinese food containers , for anybody who has dry snow just add some water, i mad mines with dry snow

Jan 20, 2009. 1:07 AMJennifer F. (author) says:

Oh, so you used the chinese food container like a mold to make snow "bricks". That could be pretty neat. :)

Jan 1, 2009. 12:10 PMdl~L~ld says:

Nice idea. I'm sure you could build off of this and build some pretty amazing things. Even multi-layer, multi-candle sort of things. Maybe even Christmas lawn decorations? I wouldn't know though, since the nearest snow is a few hours from me.

Mar 2, 2008. 7:52 AM

balloondoggle says:

That is a lot more light than I would have expected from a single candle. Very nice project. Someone with snow sculpting skills could probably build on this idea.

Dec 16, 2008. 4:58 PMcodongolev says:

make a dinosaur with GLOWING EYES!

Dec 1, 2008. 6:09 AMArkarinum says:

I always wanted to see some snow :P

Nov 16, 2008. 8:30 PMrickyd! says:

it doesn't snow much in oklahoma, except for last years ice storm!

Nov 4, 2008. 6:11 AMsunshine24 says:

Thanks for that great instruction video. I can't wait to try this. ( :

Sep 8, 2008. 11:24 PMhammer9876 says:

Really lovely. Five stars. I just have a problem with the first step. Snow. Ha! The third snow fall I had ever seen happened when I was in college. I ran out side to make a snow ball. The natives kept laughing at me because it was a "dry" snow fall and the snow would NOT pack. It was like sand. Talk about worthless snow!

Sep 10, 2008. 1:30 AMJennifer F. (author) says:

It definitely has to be the right kind of snow in order to make the snowballs :)

Jun 23, 2008. 2:22 PManna_2008 says:

Simple, almost free, and totally AWESOME! I would have never thought do do this, and now I will!

Feb 27, 2008. 6:00 PMreedz says:

Great idea, it would look wonderful if you have friends or family coming over for the day. You could light it as a symbol that you wish to light their way home. ...wow...that was deep

Feb 27, 2008. 6:00 PMBrennn10 says:

Awesome video! And the lantern looks really cool!

Feb 27, 2008. 2:36 PMAar000n3y says:

It looks really cool, but I would just use an electric lantern. It would be even cooler to use a solar powered lantern and put the solar cell on top of the snow dome. If I were to use a candle I would at least make an escape hole for the heat at the top of the dome.