Introduction: A Garden Light
A very elegant garden light with almost no cost and very easy to make.
Check it out! After you have gathered the materials it takes about 10 minutes....
And you will enjoy it all summer long.
Step 1: What You Need
You will need:
- one plastic bottle in the same shape as shown. Here in the Netherlands they are very common with detergent or fabric softener.
- one old bicycle inner tyre, or at least 6 rings cut from a inner tyre.
- one broomstick, as long as you want.
- a pair of scissors
- a small hacksaw
- a tea light ( small candle in aluminium container)
Step 2: Sawing
With the hacksaw cut off bottom of the bottle, and top of the cap
Step 3: Quarters
Make four long cuts with the scissors along the "corners" of the bottle.
Step 4: Petals
Shape the four parts as leaves by cutting off rounded corners.
Step 5: Cap Adjustment
unscrew the cap from the bottle. Remove the inner ring with the hacksaw to make the cap flat on the underside.
Step 6: Big Match
Cut aprox 6 rings out of the bicycle inner tube. Put the six rubber rings on top of each other on the end of the broomstick. Make sure the bottle cap can be squeezed on with some effort.
Step 7: Capology
The bottle caps often come in cheap plastic colors.
You can paint them. ( I use one layer of acrylic modeling paste, and one layer of artist's acrylic paint).
Or, easy peasy, cover it with two more rings cut from the bicycle tyre
Step 8: Finito
Put the bottle on the stick. Insert the broomstick in the ground and insert the tea-light in the bottle. You will find that a tea-light fits beautifully in the neck of the bottle. To light the candle bend one leaf outward and light with a match.
Notice how nice translucent the bottle shines, and how beautiful metal-like the inside reflects!
How much light-flowers can your garden take?

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28 Comments
5 years ago
I would like to use that for our garden because it is very dark.Also that is a big match of yours!
p.s are those matches?
Reply 5 years ago
Enjoy the idea in your own garden. Do not understand your question about matches.
6 years ago
TRES COOL!
9 years ago
Excelente, parabéns
Reply 6 years ago
You don't eat it. And you probably use it outdoors.
6 years ago
This is a great idea. I want to use the idea and adapt it to use on my "basic" solar lights to make them more attractive. I'll see if the bottle allows enough light to charge the solar lights.
Reply 6 years ago
You can take your solar lights apart, place the cells somewhere out of view, not close to the led light and connect them using thin wires.
If you're really ambitious, you could place the accumulator in a piece of pipe, use it as the stem, build some leaf-like holder for the solar cell and attach it to the stem as a leaf.
8 years ago on Introduction
Made a new one for indoors with led lamp. Works perfect with electrical wire through a metal tube and a socket on top.
8 years ago on Introduction
I think these will look lovely
in the summer
8 years ago
this is awesome love it..
8 years ago
beautiful to see when lit
9 years ago
Love this, now just have to find some bottles I can use and enough old broomsticks! Lol
9 years ago on Introduction
Nice! You always do the coolest things!
9 years ago
great idea, will have to try it
9 years ago on Introduction
WOW! Just WOW! I think I'll try this with a solar light.
9 years ago on Introduction
great upcycling !
9 years ago on Step 8
Good idea, nice and simple.
9 years ago on Step 8
Looks like it's from a shop. Also the making of it is easy and cheap.
9 years ago on Step 8
Nice one Ruud! Will have some at my next BBQ here on Skopelos.
Reply 9 years ago on Step 8
Please send me photo!