Paper Cup Lighthouses

Create these fun and simple nautical lighthouses that light up using a paper cup and a flameless candle! This delightful craft allows children to decorate their own lighthouses with bright coloured pens and designs, then place a flameless candle inside to make the light shine through.

Skill Level

Beginner

Time to Make

15 mins

Adult Supervision

Yes

FN129

Quantity

FE212

Quantity

EF328

Quantity

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Items you'll also need

Clear reuseable Cup

Top Tip

You could make these using reusable plastic beakers so they can be left outside.

How to Make

Take a coloured cup and draw three stripes around it with white deco pen, make these strips about 1 cm wide.
Draw a door and windows.
Take the clear cup and put it over the top of the other cup.
At the point where the inside cup ends draw a black line on the clear cup . make this into a railing and then colour the top of the cup black.
Take the clear cup off and place a flameless tealight on top of the first cup. ( you can use a bit of sticky tack or a glue dot to secure it).
Replace the clear cup and you have your little lighthouse.