10 DIY Christmas Lanterns For A Holiday Ambience

diy christmas lanterns for a holiday ambience cover

Lanterns, candle or LED ones, create a cozy ambience, which is especially cool for the fall or winter, and at Christmas this is essential – a cool lantern will add a chic atmosphere. Sometimes a candle lantern
with just decor, pinecones or ornaments inside is all you need to brign holiday cheer to your home. I’ve prepared some tutorials for you to make cool LED and candle lanterns and just decorations with them – it’s high time to bring some holiday cheer to your space!

The first tutorial is about making a cool Christmas decoration, and you may add LEDs inside if you want. The lantern contains a pretty arrangement of large pinecones in buckets and with bells – they imitate Christmas trees and you may add some lights inside – a perfect decoration to making in a couple of minutes.

DIY Christmas lantern with large pinecones (via www.worthingcourtblog.com)

DIY Christmas lantern with large pinecones (via www.worthingcourtblog.com)

These awesome jar lanterns are great for indoors and outdoors, they are cool and modern-looking and will create a cozy ambience with candles. The lanterns are decorated with black silhouette scenes – trees and houses, and look cool. If you have a silhouette machine, you may make different scenes using it. Add candles inside and voila!

DIY silhouette lantern for outdoors and indoors (via look-what-i-made.com)

DIY silhouette lantern for outdoors and indoors (via look-what-i-made.com)

Here’s another Christmas decoration to make in a couple of minutes. Take a large lantern, fill it with ornaments and add a colorful bow on top – a great decoration is done! You may also add some decorative details inside or outside – pinecones, beads, berries or something else.

DIY Christmas lantern with ornaments (via www.practicallyfunctional.com)

DIY Christmas lantern with ornaments (via www.practicallyfunctional.com)

Make a frosty mason jar lantern with candles inside to enjoy a frosty winter look every time. Epsom salts attached to the jar with Mod Podge will give your lanterns the desired frozen look. decorate the lantern with berries, beads, twine, burlap and other things that you like and then add candles inside.

DIY frosty mason jar lanterns (via www.stonegableblog.com)

DIY frosty mason jar lanterns (via www.stonegableblog.com)

This candle lantern can be made in some minutes right before your guests come. It consists of mason jar, some paper and a tealight candle, how to make a lantern magical using these supplies? Easily! Read the tutorial and add Christmas magic to your space!

DIY Christmas star lantern of paper (via myshabbysoul.blogspot.ru)

DIY Christmas star lantern of paper (via myshabbysoul.blogspot.ru)

Paper garlands bring a retro feel to the space, and you may use them for decorating lanterns, too! Cut out dancing people garlands in bold colors – traditional Christmas ones or some other that you like, and attach them to the lanterns outside. Add candles inside and voila!

DIY holiday lantern with paper men garlands (via www.handmadecharlotte.com)

DIY holiday lantern with paper men garlands (via www.handmadecharlotte.com)

This lantern will fit not only Christmas but also other holidays and any seasons, and making it will take 1 minute. Grab mason jars and LED lights and make the lanterns – so easily and fast! If you need some more details, take a look at the tutorial.

DIY firefly mason jar lantern (via madincrafts.com)

DIY firefly mason jar lantern (via madincrafts.com)

This tutorial will tell you how to make a cool wooden lantern yourself, it’s tall, so it’s suitable for outdoors, too. Decorate with LEDs, ornaments, bells, evergreen garlands and a plaid bow. Read the instructions to make the lantern carefully.

DIY tall wooden lantern with decor (via www.woodshopdiaries.com)

DIY tall wooden lantern with decor (via www.woodshopdiaries.com)

A usual lantern will become a cool holiday decoration with decoration sprigs, pinecones, bells and other stuff you like. Find out how to decorate the lantern in the tutorial, put some candles inside and enjoy the result!

DIY Christmas lantern with various decor on top (via www.bigbearswife.com)

DIY Christmas lantern with various decor on top (via www.bigbearswife.com)

Make this adorable and cool lantern with bold Christmas decor easily and fast! It’s decorated with glitter bows, berries, beads and ornaments and put candles or LEDs inside. Ead the detailed instructions to find out how to make it.

DIY colorful and decorated Christmas lantern (via theorganisedhousewife.com.au)

DIY colorful and decorated Christmas lantern (via theorganisedhousewife.com.au)