Table Top Light with LEDs

We made these as table lights or centerpieces for a dinner reception event. Using the idea of LED Throwies we put LED with batteries inside old mason jars full of glass beads. The lights looked great. They were super cheap and relatively quick to make. Now that we have everything, we can remake them any time for any event.

Step 1: Materials and Props

This idea came from how simple and awesome LED Throwies are. After a few screw ups getting materials to make centerpieces for our wedding reception, we ordered materials and tried making LED Floaties. We quickly realized these wouldn't work for us because the reception was during the evening in summer. In a quick stroke of luck we came up with a solution that works with low light or no light situations. They are also reusable... you can take them apart and replace batteries if you want to without too much headache. Here's what we used:

- Basic LED Throwies Materials: LED lights, batteries (don't need the magnets for this one)

- Glass Jars

- Glass Beads (variety of colors, but clear or light color works best)

Comments

[MUKHRFF]

THANKS

[sandos]

Very cool idea :) Will have to remember this one.

[gridworks1]

Thanks... I forgot to add.... some of these still work... its been almost a year and we still have a few around that are very dim, but still glow at night. Kind of like a nice efficient night light.