Christmas tree lighting ideas

Christmas trees are an essential part of the Christmas season. In the mid-60s, Christmas trees were decorated with candles, however using candles on Christmas trees have proved to be quite dangerous. With the introduction of electricity, decorating Christmas tree with lights has become much safer and now an array of different types of lighting are available in the market. Here are some Christmas tree lighting ideas and DIY tips.

Splurge with traditional incandescent lights:

Decorate your Christmas tree with either large or miniature sized incandescent lights. The commonly used bulbs which are available in colors like white, frosted or clear shade can be mounted on a Christmas tree with a candelabra base. They are easy to change when non- functional and are also available in strings of 25 bulbs connected in a parallel position. You can also go for 100- bulb or 1000-bulb string if you need many bulbs.

DIY Tip: Make your Christmas tree unique by buying a pair of traditional incandescent lights and making your own cases (crystals, balls, flowers, fruits and vegetable shapes) for them.

Saving electricity with LED lights:

LED lights are best known for their power saving quality when compared to incandescent lights. Even though they are higher in cost, LED lights are worth spending the money. Studies show that electricity consumed by an incandescent light is 10 times more than an LED light followed by a longer life span. This way, LED lights don’t need to be replaced frequently. They are available in miniatures, tapers, globes, and novelty bulbs. A Christmas tree with LED lights can be an enchanting sight.

DIY Tip: A mesmerizing Christmas tree can be made by embedding the tree branches with LED lights by replacing the leaves.

Go multihued:

Create a theme for the Christmas tree and get artistic by mixing and matching the lights. Red and white coloured miniature lights can create a candy effect on a Christmas tree. Sport and culinary related themes on a Christmas tree will create a stirring effect midst soccer, basketball, football lights and chili pepper lights, candy lights, and grape lights. If you prefer having a simple Christmas tree, get a dozen of white miniature lights with white ornaments.

DIY Tip: Get butterfly shaped LED lights of different colours to create a vivid Christmas tree.

Novelty lights:

Novelty lights are available in both incandescent and LED varieties with varied sizes. Novelty lights come in many brands and are thematic. You can go for different themes such as Felix the Cat, T-shirts, grapes, chili peppers, Budweiser cans, Coca-Cola bottles, Betty Boop, horses and cows, etc. for your Christmas tree.

DIY Tip: Although novelty lights are available in various themes, you can ask your child to make few funny shapes and glue it with the lights on a Christmas tree.

Eco-friendly lights:

Go environmentally friendly this season by getting battery operated lights for your Christmas tree. Eco-friendly lights are suitable for miniature Christmas trees because the batteries need to be replaced often as per their usage.

DIY Tip: Create your own miniature newspaper, magazine, ice cream sticks, wooden or string Christmas tree and decorate it with innumerable shaped eco-friendly lights.

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