Other creative endeavors that you can earn in order to earn extra income is to make ornamental bed lamps out of threads and balloons. This work includes examples of handmades that have very lucrative business and business prospects with little capital.

Decorative sleeping lamps from balloons and threads can also be as beautiful and cute as possible by creating various characters. The materials needed are also easy to find and the price is not expensive.

How To Make Ornamental Bed Lamp From The Yarn And Balloon

Tools and Materials Ornamental Lamps Yarn and Balloons

To make ornamental lamps of balloons and yarns, the materials needed are as follows:

• Rubber balloons or can also use plastic balloons.
• If using plastic balloons, in terms of initial cost will be more expensive, but can be used repeatedly.
• Sewing yarn or yarn nylonLem wood (can use wood glue brand Rajawali or Fox glue) - Flannel fabric (used for decoration)
• Brush.
• Scissor.
• Plastic drink cup.
• At least 5 watt bulb.
• Stand lamps that are equipped with cables and electrical plugs. Can be obtained at the shop selling lights and electrical wiring.
• Plastic pump if you do not want to blow by mouth.

After all materials are available, the next step is to make decorative lamps of yarn and balloons.

How to Make Decorative Lamps and Balloons

If using a rubber balloon, pump or inflatable balloons to small or medium size, do not be too large to be more efficient in the use of yarn and the length of time of manufacture. If using a plastic balloon, pump the balloon up to the maximum size.

Put the wood glue into a plastic cup and mix it with enough water, not too thin.

After the glue is mixed, use a brush to coat the entire surface of the rubber balloon with the glue. Unlike if you use a plastic balloon, the surface of the balloon does not need to be coated glue. Can be wrapped directly with yarn so that after drying plastic balloons easy to remove.

Balloon wound randomly using the thread to completely cover the entire surface of the balloon.

After it looks a bit thick, repeat coat the entire surface of the yarn with glue then twist it back with the thread. Repeat continues until at least 2 or 3 times, but the thicker the thread, the light will dimmer.

The final step, lining the entire surface of the outermost yarn with glue.

For the use of inflatable balloons, the way to dry should be hung in the shade or can also be placed on the table. Do not be dried in direct sunlight because it can cause balloons to erupt, do not place on the floor because the balloon will shrink.

Meanwhile, if you use plastic balloons, may be dried in the sun to dry. It usually takes 4 hours or up to 2 days. Depending on the weather.

The color of the balloon that was white with glue, will disappear once the glue is dry so that the original color of the yarn will reappear.

After drying, make a hole at the bottom of the balloon using scissors. Do not be afraid to explode because at the time of drying, the balloon inside also hardened. So when cut out, the balloon is stiff. The disadvantage of using a rubber balloon is that if you do not immediately remove the remaining balloons inside, the rubber balloon will shrink and cause the yarn ball to be dented. Then the used balloon can not be used again to make the next decorative lamp.

Whereas if using plastic balloons, the risk of shrunken yarn ball is almost non-existent. Plastic balloons that have been used, can be reused to make the next decorative lamp.

To make a balloon neck, can use a piece of PVC pipe. It is optional, may be worn or not depending on need. Cut out the flannel fabric according to the character you want to make, then stick it with the Fox glue. Combine balloons with lights and light booths. The manufacture of decorative sleeping lamps from the yarn and balloons is complete.

Examples of decorative balloons and yarns with different characters.

You can add a character image to beautify the thread lanterns using a flannelette.

Example creations of balloons and yarns with no characters

If you do not want to bother you can also make lantern threads without character images like this.

Good luck at home because this is very easy, hopefully this article useful for you all.