How to Make Outdoor Decorative Light Tubes for Trees

Decorative tree light tubes can be permanently placed in trees to decorate an area around your home. Lighting your trees from within makes them look their best, and the additional light spread throughout the yard can make the space seem safer and lend it an air of magic. These tubes are constructed using basic clear plastic sheets cut to a specific size and wrapped around glass tealight holders, which can be purchased for under a dollar at home decoration superstores.

Clear, flexible plastic sheeting
Tape measure
Utility knife
Glass tealight holders, 2-inch-diameter
Superglue
Small clamps
Awl
Picture wire
Tealights

Instructions

- 1
  Measure and mark the plastic sheeting into 8-by-6-inch pieces using a utility knife. Use the previously made pieces as a guide for cutting out additional pieces prior to beginning the installation process.
- 2
  Spread superglue around the outside of a 2-inch-diameter glass tealight and position the base of the tealight against the longer edge of the plastic sheet. Roll up the plastic sheet around the tealight so that it makes a 6-inch-high cylinder with a tealight holder as the base and the tealight position facing into the cylinder. Apply a thin bead of superglue between the flaps of the plastic sheeting that overlap. Hold the plastic in place for one minute. Hold down the overlapping plastic with small clamps. Let the cylinder dry for an hour.
- 3
  Poke two holes with an awl about 1/2 inch from the top of the sheeting, opposite each other. Cut a piece of picture wire to 12 inches. Thread one end of the wire through a hole into the cylinder and tie three overlapping knots at the end until it can no longer pass back through the hole. Bend the wire and repeat through the other hole and into the cylinder.

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