[Captions by Judy V. at Y Translator] In this video, we're going to be showing you
how to make some magical solar-powered lights.
They're quick to make,
cost less than three dollars a piece,
and there are decoration
that can really give your party a magical pop.
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To get started making these magical outdoors solar lights,
there's three main things that you need to grab.
One is some small mason jars.
The second is some solar stake lights,
and the third is some clear cellophane plastic.
Here's the basic idea.
A solar stake light will be dismantled,
and some of the important pieces
will be glued to the inside of a mason jar and its lid.
Some crumpled colored cellophane will be added to give the lights
a magical otherworldly effect.
Decorative elements can then be added to the lid
to give your lights a bit more style.
Little mason jars are available in lots of places,
and I got these specific ones at Hobby Lobby
because I really like the short design and the square sides that it has.
There are also multiple different sizes of lids,
and you want to make sure that you have the ones
that fit nicely with your solar lights.
These little stake lights cost a dollar.
They have a stake at the bottom,
and you can stab them into the ground and making a nice lining your path.
Well, we're not going to be using all of the equipment,
and certainly not the stakes,
but we are going to disassemble these for parts.
These solar stakes are fairly easy to disassemble,
and the only tool we're going to need to get all the parts that we need
is a simple Phillips-head screwdriver.
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These right here are the two pieces that we're going for.
This has a solar panel, a sensor to see how much light there is,
and on the bottom, there's an LED bulb.
This tag here on the side prevents the battery from connecting to the bulb
while it's still in the store.
But once we pull that out, it should light up
when we've got the solar panel blocked off.
It's a pretty straightforward design.
The solar panel on top charges a 1.2 volt battery inside,
and there's an ambient light detector in the lid,
so that when it's too dark, the light turns on automatically.
We want these two pieces,
and the rest of the stake can be discarded.
This shiny little piece sits down below the lightbulb,
and it's a reflector to make sure you get the most
out of your one LED bulb.
With the mason jars, I talked about the lid fitting onto the top of the lantern,
and if you have the right size, you'll have an incredibly close fit
that barely has any space on the sides.
The inner lid of our mason jar, like the rest of the stake,
can be discarded.
Once we've got these four pieces separated,
it's time to use a hot glue gun to start assembling them.
This small chrome piece is still going to be a reflector,
the same way it was before, just in a different place.
We want to glue this onto the center bottom of our mason jar.
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Next, we want to take the top portion of the lantern,
fit it just slightly inside the mason jar lid,
and then glue it in place.
If you need to, you can glue it from the outside.
But it's going to look a little sloppy.
So I really like to try and get all of the glue on the interior of the lid.
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It's daylight out here,
so it's pretty hard to see how much it does or does not light up.
Let's put this jar inside of a darkened block
so we can get a better sense for it.
The white light and unobscured walls of the glass
means we are still losing a fair amount of the light out the sides.
To keep it more visible,
and of course, to add a little bit of sparkling magical looking color,
that's where the cellophane comes in.
This whole roll, which has quite a bit on it,
was only about two dollars,
and we're not going to be using anywhere near a whole roll.
Not even the tenth probably.
We want to cut a piece of cellophane,
and wrinkled it in sort of a circle around the reflector.
We don't want to obscure the path of light
from the LED down to the reflector at the bottom.
But we want all the way around the sides to be covered in our cellophane.
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Now, this piece is maybe 8 inches tall, and a little over a foot wide.
It's not necessarily going to matter exactly what size you get.
I'm just kind of going to crumple this up,
and then push it into the jar,
in sort of a loop around the reflector at the bottom.
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With the cellophane added, we can now screw the lantern light lid
down onto the jar.
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The cellophane comes in several different colors.
And if you aren't a big fan of the look of a mason jar,
especially with its gold or silver lid,
here's plenty of ways you can decorate those.
Ribbon, twine, or paint all work great.
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By combining colors of cellophane,
you can get some interesting blends that look even more exotic.
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