Introduction: 1$ Lamp

This is a lamp was successful past me with the trash and waste in Capital of Rhode Island, RI. All the materials including the electric cord are from trash or nature. The soft bulb was bought in the "1 dollar tree storage" in Capital of Rhode Island. When making this lamp on your own, you crapper find the material in either the waste of your have house or the combined of your neighborhood. Tree branches and soil can easily be set up outside in nature.

Step 1: Material and Tools

The materials includes:

balsa stick or another wood that are easy to cut

plastic transparent sheet(any kinds could work,the thicker ones kit and boodle finer)

useless composition (previous homework, files etc.)

a balloon

some grunge and several tree branches

thing rope, line, or telegraph

scissors and knife

cunning glue for composition and wood

backbreaking gum artillery

a light incandescent lamp and a corduroy with light socket

Step 2: Make the Lampshade

1. tear the paper into little pieces

2. blow the ballon to the size of the lampshade you want (this step is depended on you personal preference)

3. use the craft glue to glue the first sheet on to the ballon

4. continue gluing other pieces

(all the paper, except the first piece, should be mucilage to the late paper pieces, alternatively of the balloon itself)

5. leave a golf hole about the size of your light bulb

6. use a pen or other sharp targe to stab the balloon

s7.take the ballon out of the lamp shade.

8. use the paper to make a strip and gum the strip down to the hole equally showed in picture #3 (this strip testament hold the shade to the light socket)

Footmark 3: Make the Lamp Remain firm

1. Cut the basal wood in to four long sticks and eight short sticks with knife

(if you only have woodwind pieces instead of sticks, stack various pieces together and gum them to make the piece thick, and then cut them into thin sticks)

2. glue them unitedly into a rectangular structure like the unrivaled in picture #1

3. paste the transparent sheet to the bottom of the structure and around the four sides with hard glue gun. Leave the top open up.

(I used one piece for the bottom and another full piece raping the four sides)

4. use the knife to cut a bit hole on the plastic sheet on one side of the square block. the hole should adjacent the inferior.

5. let the cable goes through the hole

(You might need to cut the telegram, rent out it go through the mess, and reconnect the wire again. The instructor of how to reconnect a electric cord is affianced. I borrow the video recording from the youtuber RichsMethods. I used a two prongs cord. If you use a three prongs cord, he has tutorial for both kinds in the television)

Watch the video recording and conform to the step carefully, connecting the electrical cord in the ill-timed way might cause danger.

Step 4: Soil and Branches

1. Put the soil into the lamp stand

2. Stick the branches into the soil

Step 5: Bond the Electric cord to the Branch

1. Prefer one of the branches and tie the cord to the offset with thin rope, wire, operating theatre line

2. screw the lightbulb onto the socket

(leave a part of the cord not attached to the branch so the light bulb hangs land)

Step 6: Pay heed Your Shade and Light the Lamp Upwardly

1. Hang the tint to your light socket

2. male plug the corduroy and light up your lamp

3. customize your lamp by changing tree branches, hanging decoration, or doing anything you want to it

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