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Make Magical Christmas Lanterns with Kids

By ProjectswithKids

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Kids will love making these magical Christmas lanterns! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. #christmascrafts #christmaslanterns #kidschristmas #projectswithkids

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, kids will love making them! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

If you are looking for more Christmas projects to make take a look at our collection of creative Christmas arts and crafts for more fun ideas!

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will want to make more than one!  They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

This is a perfect craft to use up extra Christmas wrapping paper or tissue paper. These lanterns also make a great handmade gift idea that kids can make for family and friends!

This printable 3D Christmas tree craft is super easy and perfect for pretend play!

Make your own magical Christmas lanterns

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will want to make more than one! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

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Supplies

  • Wide mouth glass jars, these don’t have to be mason jars, you can use any glass jars that you have.
  • Tissue paper in white, green or patterned for the trees and silver for the snowflakes (or you can use silver wrapping paper)
  • Mod Podge
  • Paintbrushes
  • Candles
  • Yarn in green and red
  • Snowflake paper punch
  • Cardboard

Instructions to make your lantern craft

1. Make sure whatever jar you are using is clean and dry. Take your white tissue paper and cut it into strips or squares to make it easier to apply to your jar.

2. Cover your jar with Mod Podge and apply the white tissue paper all over your jar. It’s ok if your tissue paper overlaps. If some of your tissue paper tears, which does tend to happen, just add some more tissue paper on top of the tear.

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will love making these! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

Kids will also love: Mini Pallet Popsicle Stick Christmas Ornaments   

3. Let your jar dry and get your trees ready. You can use plain green tissue paper or patterned tissue paper or even a combination of both would look good.

Make your simple tree template and cut it out of cardboard. Use this template to make your tissue paper trees. We did 3 trees per jar.

4. Paint your Mod Podge onto your jar where you want your trees to go and then carefully place them on, pressing down gently.

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will love making these! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

Related: Snowflake Watercolor Winter Art

5. Next, it’s snowflake time! We used silver wrapping paper for the snowflakes, simply because that’s what we had and I love when I can use the supplies we already have on hand. But silver tissue paper works just as well.

Take your snowflake punch and punch out your snowflakes. My kids loved this part, they love using paper punches!

6. Take your paintbrush and paint dots all over your jar, carefully add your snowflakes.

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will love making these! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

Related: Adorable Unicorn Christmas Cards

7. Do at least one final coat of Mod Podge around your entire jar, we did two coats just to make sure everything was sealed in.

Make sure the top and bottom of where your white tissue paper is, gets a really good coat of Mod Podge to keep everything sealed nicely. Let your jar dry completely.

8. Add your yarn accents to the top of your jar and put your candle in.

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will love making these! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

Your Christmas lanterns are finished and ready to cast a magical glow around your room! These were so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will love making these as part of your holiday decorations!

More Christmas crafts kids will love

Easy Kid-Made Paper Straw Wreath Ornaments

These wreath ornaments with paper straws are the perfect colorful addition to any Christmas tree. An easy and fun Christmas craft for kids of all ages.

Glitter Snowflake Ornaments with Air Dry Clay

Add some sparkle and shine to your Christmas tree with these glitter snowflake ornaments. An easy DIY Christmas ornament for kids of all ages to make.

Follow me on Pinterest for more great project ideas!

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Kids will love making these magical Christmas lanterns! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. #christmascrafts #christmaslanterns
Yield: 1 Christmas lantern

Make Magical Christmas Lanterns with Kids

Start saving your jars, these magical Christmas lanterns are so fun and easy to make, you and your kids will want to make more than one!  They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor. 

Kids will love making these magical Christmas lanterns! They look absolutely stunning lit up with a candle inside and would make the perfect addition to any holiday decor.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 45 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Difficulty Easy

Materials

  • Glass jar
  • White tissue paper
  • Christmas tissue paper or wrapping paper
  • Silver wrapping paper
  • Yarn
  • Mod Podge
  • Battery operated candles

Tools

  • Paintbrush
  • Scissors
  • Small snowflake paper punch

Instructions

  1. Make sure your jar is clean and dry.
  2. Cut white tissue paper into squares or strips.
    Apply Mod Podge to your jar and glue on the tissue paper.
    Set aside your jar to dry completely.
  3. Make a simple cardboard tree template and cut 3 trees out of Christmas wrapping paper or tissue paper.
    Glue your trees to your jar with Mod Podge.
  4. Using a snowflake paper punch, punch out snowflakes with silver tissue or wrapping paper.
    Stick your snowflakes onto your jar using Mod Podge.
  5. Add one to two coats of Mod Podge to your entire jar to seal everything in. Let it dry completely.
  6. Wrap some yarn at the top of the jar to finish off your lantern!
Project Type: Christmas craft / Category: Christmas/Winter

Check out all of the other awesome kid-made Christmas decorations here. There are so many great ideas to inspire your Christmas crafting. These Christmas stars from Cup of Toast are so cute!

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Comments

  1. Jen | My Healthy Homemade Life

    November 22, 2017 at 8:10 pm

    Oh yes! I’ll definitely start saving my jars! I love this one! Great idea, Angela!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 4:57 am

      Thanks Jen!

  2. Loren

    November 22, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    These lanterns are so beautiful! A great idea for decorations and gifts! Thank you so much for this and during the Cookie Baking Exchange I’m going to have to suggest that we do these as well!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 4:58 am

      Thank you Loren! I agree they would make beautiful gifts!

  3. Theresa

    November 22, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    This is such a cute Christmas craft idea! My kids will love doing it with me.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 4:58 am

      Thank you Theresa!

  4. Karla

    November 23, 2017 at 1:05 am

    Those are really cute. My kids love doing crafty things like this . . . and maybe I can direct them to this instead of baking more sweets that I don’t need around the house!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 4:59 am

      Thank you Karla! And I totally hear you on the sweets, my kids have been candy obsessed since Halloween.

  5. Michele

    November 23, 2017 at 4:34 am

    You are not kidding! They look super easy and very adorable.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 5:00 am

      Thanks Michele! They are super easy for kids to make.

  6. Bree

    November 23, 2017 at 6:24 am

    How fun! I have a ton of baby food jars that would be perfect for this craft! Do tea lights fit in baby food jars? I’ll check! : )

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 8:10 pm

      I think baby food jar lanterns would be adorable! I think tea lights would fit.

  7. Stephanie | Adventures in Aussieland

    November 23, 2017 at 8:27 am

    How fun is this! This is even a great craft idea for adults!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 8:10 pm

      Yes, I agree!

  8. shelah

    November 23, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    What a lovely and simple holiday craft project. The kids will love making lanterns.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 23, 2017 at 8:11 pm

      Thank you Shelah! My kids loved making their lanterns.

  9. Flossie McCowald | SuperMomHacks

    November 23, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    What an amazing idea! I love how beautiful they look, and cannot BELEVE how simple they are to make! Thank you for the fabulous tutorial, cannot wait to try these with my kids!!!

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 24, 2017 at 4:49 am

      Thank you Flossie!

  10. Jen

    November 27, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    Oh my, these are just adorable. Thank you ever so much for joining in with this year’s kid made Christmas series.

    • ProjectswithKids

      November 27, 2017 at 5:37 pm

      Thanks so much for hosting Jen! I loved seeing all of the amazing ideas! 😉

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