Creative Homemade Halloween Potions!
16 Oct
Halloween is almost here and we have been trying to find creative ways to green our Halloween! Have you got lots of old spotlight bulbs ready to be recycled? We replaced all of our old incandescent spotlights with Compact Flourescents and had a cupboard full of old burned out spotlight bulbs… But what could we possibly use them for?
My wife (Katie) came up with a great idea, we could make creative homemade Halloween potions from our old lightbulbs! Here are a few that we made;
Creative Homemade Halloween Potions!
Here are the simple steps to follow (Please be careful when handling old lightbulbs as they may be sharp or easily broken);
1/ You will need the following materials;
- An old burned out spotlight bulb
- Some black electricians tape
- A used wine cork
- A permament marker pen
The Creative Hallowen Potion Materials
2/ Start to wrap the black electricians tape around the stem of the old lightbulb to cover the metal threaded part;
Wrapping the Recycled Light Bulb
3/ Once the metal threaded portion is covered you can add the old wine cork and continue to wrap the black tape until you have covered half of the cork;
Add the Wine Cork and Tape it to the Bulb
4/ Use your permament marker to write a spooky message on your Halloween potion! We chose labels like “Poision” or “Deadly Nightshade” but our favorite was our “Witches Potion” shown below;
Our Homemade Witches Potion!
So there you have it, get your creative side out and make a batch of creative homemade Halloween potions! You can use different sizes of spotlights to create some variation.
Our Green Halloween Potions
Do you have a creative Halloween idea? Share it with us today, we’d love to hear from you…
lol!!
LOVE it!!
We have a bunch of old burnt-out bulbs (not so pretty ones though! just plain glass, unpainted) and I’ve been wondering what to do with them!!
Hi Layla, we’re glad you like the Halloween Potions idea, we were very pleased with how they turned out… It’s a great re-use for the bulbs and the wine bottle corks too
Oh, can incandescent or LED lights be recycled? Any idea?
Here in Slovenia CFLs get collected for recycling, incandescents not, and as for LEDs… no idea!