How to Turn Jars into Solar Lamps

DIDIAYER: I wanna show you a very easy way to add that beautiful glow when the sun goes down. We're talking solar. All you need is a jar, a solar light, some electrical tape, scissors, a paint brush, glue and some string.

The first thing that you want to do is you want to be sure that your lid has two parts, because you want to discard the inner part but use the outer ring. This is gonna secure it all together.

Now, we want to take our solar light and our electrical tape. And because your jar is a little big, what we want to do is create almost like a corkscrew effect. We want to add the electrical tape around the solar so it fits in nice and snug.

Now that you have your electrical tape around your solar light, you want to just take it and push it down into the jar. And look at that -- it's a perfect fit. The next step we are going to do is take our lid and we're gonna thread our string through it and place it on top of the jar. Then it's simple as twisting on the top. So there you go, you have your lid now securely on.

So I'm gonna cut off our string. Now we want to add a nice decorative detail to the jar. What we are gonna simply do is take our brush and put some glue and glue all the way around the jar. Now here comes the fun part -- adding your decorative string. You just want to start by holding on to the string in one area and wrapping it around all the way. Nice and tight, close together. You can add a lot or a little bit. It's up to you on how you'd like to display this.

Once you've come to the end, you just want to take your scissors again. Cut the end. If it wants to come off you can add a little electrical tape just to hold it down to dry, but I think that this guy is really happy and is already on there.

There you have it, you have a beautiful solar light that will add ambiance to your backyard. You can hang them in trees, along a driveway or on your deck. And you're saving a lot of money because you don't need to plug it in. The sun does all the work!