Make Your Own Decorative Luminous Glass
The glass must be cleaned and dried before painting, regardless of whether you use luminous paints or sticks. If you put the glass next to a light, it will glow more intensely afterwards.
Small children like to have a little light in their room so that they can feel comfortable and safe at night. A decorative luminous glass is perfect for this.
However, this allows them to adopt the bad habit of not being able to sleep without light. It also makes the electricity bill more expensive.
But today we are going to present you with a great idea that looks pretty and with which children can safely fall asleep without the light being annoying.
You can make a nice luminous glass yourself and only need a little material. The result is a “magical” lamp that still lights up when the light is switched off.
Then we will explain two ways to make a luminous glass, you won’t need long for it.
Luminous glass with chopsticks
Many stores that sell party supplies have chopsticks that glow in the dark. Mostly these are used for birthday parties as well as other celebrations.
These sticks usually have a diameter of 0.50 cm and a length of 20 cm, and they can be put together at the ends.
These light sticks are available in different colors, you can usually choose between red, yellow, green, pink, purple, orange and blue. Some even have several colors at the same time, which makes them particularly interesting.
You can use your favorite colors for the luminous glass . It’s best to combine at least two colors to get great results.
Required material
- Glass container
- Light sticks
- Plastic gloves
- scissors
- (used) tulle
Step 1
Collect multiple jars (such as jam or other canning jars).
2nd step
Cut off a piece of tulle, slightly wider than the height of the glass, and place it in the glass so that it is against the walls.
3rd step
Put your gloves on, then cut open the glow sticks to remove the paint.
4th step
Put the light stick in the jar so you can use the paint to stain the tulle, which will then glow in the dark.
5th step
To make the glass look pretty and decorative, it is best to use several sticks of different colors.
6th step
Seal the jar and shake it.
7th step
Now you can turn off the light and enjoy the pleasant atmosphere with the luminous glass.
Make luminous glass yourself with colors
For this you need noctilucent colors that store the incident light during the day in the form of excitation energy and then release it again in the dark. Depending on the pigments used, greenish, bluish, yellowish or pink light is reflected.
We recommend that you combine several colors here as well in order to achieve great effects.
material
- Glasses
- Luminous paint
- brush
- water
Step 1
Mix some of the fluorescent paint with a bit of water so that the particles slowly dissolve.
Use a brush and gloves to protect your hands.
2nd step
Wash the glasses well, then dry them thoroughly.
3rd step
Then use the brush to paint the inside of the glasses. The best thing to do is to do a lot of small points. The more color, the more the glass glows at night.
Even if you need some time for this, you will like the result.
4th step
Now you can briefly put the glass in the light so that it can absorb it and then shine in the dark.
Even if the glass seems nothing special during the day, it will shine wonderfully at night.
Did you like this idea? As you can see, both techniques are very simple and the results will turn heads.
You just need a little time and creativity to make these glow glasses. You can make the glow glasses together with your children, then it will be even more fun.
Don’t forget to put on gloves and old clothes so that if you get paint splatter, nothing happens.
