Using the larger cups made of plastic no base is necessary as the cups are truncated cones. They will form into a sphere. Leave an opening the size of your fist and drop battery powered fairy lights in. The batteries last a long time and they're remotely controlled and on a timer, so you don't have to climb up and down so much.
I made one of these for Christmas 2018. Stopped by here to see if there was better way to hang it. Ours is outside, so we wanted it to be battery powered. We made ours out of 9 oz. translucent plastic cups and used four 100 bulb led fairy lights. Threaded nylon twine through openings in the cups. Now I'm experimenting with 5 oz. cups. They're nearly transparent and make a somewhat smaller ball. We're going to try one 100 bulb string. If that isn't bright enough, i'm pretty sure two strings will get the job done. We're going for two green and two red balls to hang by our driveway for the holidays next year.
I made one of these for Christmas 2018. Stopped by here to see if there was better way to hang it. Ours is outside, so we wanted it to be battery powered. We made ours out of 9 oz. translucent plastic cups and used four 100 bulb led fairy lights. Threaded nylon twine through openings in the cups. Now I'm experimenting with 5 oz. cups. They're nearly transparent and make a somewhat smaller ball. We're going to try one 100 bulb string. If that isn't bright enough, i'm pretty sure two strings will get the job done. We're going for two green and two red balls to hang by our driveway for the holidays next year.
Hi! That's a beautiful creation and I would like to do that by myself too but I'm french and I have no idea about what are those cups of paper! What does that for? Because I would like to know where I can buy this kind of stuff!
Thanks!
Thanks!
It's perfectly okay to use.