Making a Baby Food Jar Christmas Tree

Craft: Baby Food Jar Christmas Tree

Here's a picture of the baby food jar "Christmas tree" my daughter made for my friend's 80th birthday.

Materials:

• 17 baby food jars
• 1 35 light string of small lights
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• car mirror glue
• glitter garland

Instructions:

1. Drill a hole in the tops of the lids.
2. Paint them black & let dry.
3. Glue the jars together in a tree form. (17 jars) (She first used hot glue, didn't work well. We also tried super glue, that was a disaster.) Use car mirror glue.
4. Cut 2-3 inches of glitter garland for each jar and place in the jars.
5. Use a 35 light string. Put 3 lights in the top jar, in through the hole of the lids, put 2 lights in the rest of the lids and tape with black electrical tape, to hold them in.

Plug in and enjoy. I still have the one my daughter made over 15 years ago.

By Great Granny Vi

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Comments

By Catherine Alksins (Guest Post)
March 2, 20050 found this helpful
Nice!!!Fab!!Jealous!!Roll on xmas!!!
 

Michelle
March 3, 20050 found this helpful
This is adorable! What a creative idea! I thought baby food jars were only good for storing paint and other things in. Thanks for sharing the picture and instructions!
 

Betty Reese
March 3, 20050 found this helpful
They really look nice. You can also put a 3" wide green (or whatever color you like) ribbon around the tree part, or around the whole thing, just finishes it more.
 

badwater
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March 5, 20050 found this helpful
I'd heard of these before, but had never seen one. It's cute!!!!! What a clever idea!!
 
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