Christmas LED Lights Ideas!

Christmas lights are really magnificent. And the variety of Christmas LED lights make it more fun to work on some great Christmas lights projects. Look at these Christmas LED lights images- both outdoors and indoors and get some great ideas for decorating with LED lights on Christmas!

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Christmas Crafts: Make Candle Holders!

Christmas Candle Holders

Christmas is not only special because of parties and other festivities but it is also special because kids want to decorate and do all the stuff on their own. They also enjoy various Christmas crafts and love to make Christmas ornaments and other decorations with their own hands. This article will give some instructions for easy kids Christmas crafts related to Christmas lighting. So, lets know how to make Christmas candle holder for the special Christmas lighting.

Christmas Craft: Christmas Candle Holder

You will need very common things available in craft stores or even at home for making this one for easy kids Christmas craft of candle holders. Get the following supplies for making Christmas Candle holder:

• Baby food jars
• Scissors
• Tissue papers (red and green)
• Liquid starch
• Tea candles
• Glitter
• Ribbon or lace
• Glue 

Steps for Making Christmas Candle Holder

• Cut tissue paper into small square shapes.
• Dip the paper squares in a bowl containing liquid starch and attach them on the outside of the food jar. You may slightly overlap the squares.
• Allow the jar to dry completely.
• Now put a tea candle in the jar. To secure the candle to the bottom of the jar, pour a little dab of melted wax. When you light up the candle, the light will show through the colored tissue papers.
• Reuse the hand crafted candle holder by replacing the tea candle.
• For some more decoration of your handmade Christmas candle, sprinkle glitter on the jar when your tissue paper is still wet or use the colorful ribbons and glue them outside the jar in beautiful shapes of bows, flowers etc.

30% of Christmas lights are a serious safety hazard, EC warns

Calling it a "wake up" call, the European Commission (EC) warned that on average, just more than 30 per cent of Christmas lights sold in the European Union (EU) had increased risks of electric shock, fire hazard or both.

"If we are going to 'keep the lights on' at Christmas, consumers need to be confident that there are no compromises on safety," European Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kouneva was quoted as saying in an EC media statement issued on December 2 2009 at the presentation of a report on Christmas light safety.

The report presented the conclusions of a joint market surveillance project that involved authorities from Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Slovania and the Netherlands. Testing had been carried out between November 2007 and May 2009 on 196 random samples of Christmas light chains across the entire price range, the media statement said.

Many of the lighting chains that had been checked, had failed multiple technical or administrative tests.

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