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Decorating the yard for Halloween has become really popular, but can also be really expensive to do. From giant spider webs to creepy skeletons to fog machines to decorative Halloween lights to spooky animatronics and inflatables, all the favorite fall holiday decor can really add up in cost! Thankfully there are tons of DIY yard decor decorating projects that can be down on a budget. Like DIY pumpkin solar lights that create the perfect Halloween walkway outside your home!
DIY Pumpkin Solar Lights for Halloween Yard Decor
At our house we love DIY projects. Often times For instance, a path light for Halloween decorating doesn’t have to be expensive. Make several to line an entire walkway or scatter throughout the yard. It really is so easy to make your own solar pumpkin lantern!
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How to make a Solar Jack-o-Lantern
With some plastic pumpkins, solar panel path lights, and power tools, you can create the Halloween look on a budget!
What you’ll need:
Pumpkin buckets (8.5 inch)
Spade drill bit (1 inch)
What you’ll do:
Turn the plastic pumpkin upside and use a spade drill bit to cut a hole in the center of bottom.
Add small holes around the bottom of the pumpkin. (This helps with drainage of water if there’s a heavy rain that breaches the pumpkin light.)
File the rough edges around the main hole in the bottom of the pumpkin.
Detach the solar light from its stake. Then place the solar light stake through center hole on bottom of pumpkin.
Reattach solar light to the stake on the inside of the pumpkin.
Attach top of solar light and lower into the plastic pumpkin.
Place in the yard or along a walkway.
It’s that easy to make DIY pumpkin solar lights! I hope you enjoy decorating your front yard with these Halloween pumpkin lantern solar lights that my husband made. Yes, my husband made them. Some people have an Instagram husband, I have a blog husband. And he’s pretty great!
I sure do love that these easy DIY jack-o’-lantern sidewalk lights don’t need to be plugged in. Could you imagine having so many power cords running here, there and everywhere all over the yard? The kids would so trip over the cords while playing out front. These DIY pumpkin solar lights simply charge up all day and then glow at night. That’s the power of solar!
Other types of Halloween yard decor:
Looking for other fun Halloween decorating ideas! I have quite a few on the blog HERE.
Tara
blog owner at Seeing Dandy Blog
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