DIY Upcycled Lamp

• Use a 3-liter or one-gallon recyclable plastic container in your home.
• This can be a water jug or a soda bottle.
• The container should have a bottleneck in order to keep the lampshade on the light bulb.
• The container must be either translucent or transparent so that light will shine through.

Clean and dry the container.

Peel off all stickers that may be on the bottle.

• Hold the container upside down. Using the hobby knife, carefully cut off the bottom of the container using the knife. Remove the cut circle from the container.
• Place the container right side up.
• Plug in your hot glue gun. Place a stick of hot glue in the gun and allow it to warm up for about 5 minutes.
• Cut a hole at the top of the container that is big enough for the plug to go through.

• To prepare the spoons, use the pliers to cut the handles off of the plastic spoons.
• Make sure to leave about 1/4” of the handle on each spoon.

• Apply a small amount of hot glue to the small bit of handle left on the spoon.
• Place the spoon, pointy end facing down, at the bottom of the container. Hold the spoon to the container for a few seconds while the glue cools.
• Be creative and make any pattern you like with the spoons.
• Cover the entire container
• Let your container sit for approximately 30-minutes in order to cool and dry.
• While your container dries, screw a 60-watt bulb into the socket of your hanging light cord.

• When your container is dry, thread your hanging light cord through the bottleneck so that the light socket rests inside the pendant and the plug comes through the top.
• Pull the cord until the socket rests up against the bottleneck of the container.
• Plug it in and test your lamp!