Glowing Paper Bag Luminaries
Ready to have your heart warmed? You and your grands can make some sweet and easy Glowing Paper Bag Luminaries to line your sidewalks!
Servings: 1 Paper Bag Luminary
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Christmas Cookie Cutters
- Cardboard (cut the size of the paper bag)
- Scissors
Ingredients
- 1 Brown Paper Lunch Bag
- 1 White Paper Lunch Bag (the same size as the brown paper bags)
- 1 Flameless Tea Light
- 1 Small wood block cut to fit flat in the bottom of the paper bags, OR sand
Instructions
- Decorate the side of a Brown Paper Lunch Bag with shapes, drawn closer to the bottom of the bag, not close to the top. Christmas cookie cutters work great, or you can use stencils if you have them!
- Cut a piece of cardboard that is the size of the side of the paper bag. Slip it inside the bag so that it fits next to the side of the bag you just decorated. This is to help prevent the child from cutting through the whole bag when cutting out the shapes they just drew.
- Use a Scissors to poke a hole in the center of the shape and then proceed to cut out the shape. Only cut through the decorated side of the bag.
- Take one of the White Paper Lunch Bags and slip it inside of the decorated bag. Slip it in carefully so it doesn’t tear the cut out areas of the brown bag. Open it up completely so that it lines the brown bag.
- Gently fold the tops of the two bags down about one inch toward the inside of the bags. Staple this flap down. This helps the bag to stand up straight.
- Slip a piece of wood (that is cut to the size of the bottom of the bag) down into the bottom of the bag. OR pour a couple of inches of sand into the bottom of the bag. This prevents the bag from blowing away as easily.
- turn a Flameless Tea Lights on and slip it into the bag. Turn off the lights and see how pretty the glowing paper bag luminaries look in a darkened room!