String Ball Chandelier

For our school maker faire, we decided to build a chandelier. We made this chandelier out of string and glue. We were inspired to make this after watching a lot of DIY videos. We eventually landed on a video of DIY home decor. Here, we saw someone making a lantern out of string, but the instructions were not clear, so we found a better video and decided that this would be a fun project.

First, we blew up a beach ball and then drew two circles on the ball. We drew a small circle on the top for the light fixture and a bigger one for the opening of the chandelier and to put the light bulb in. We then dunked our base white into the glue and started wrapping the string around the ball, making sure to avoid the circle boundaries. Once we ran out of white string, we repeated the process with the blue and pink string. When wrapping the string, we made sure to cover up any blank spots on the beach ball so that the amount of string was consistent all around. After we finished wrapping it, we set it on a drying rack and let it dry. Once it was dry, we deflated the beach ball and took it out of the now-dry string ball and put in the light fixture and light bulb and hung it up.

A challenge we faced was not having enough materials necessary to complete the project, so we borrowed these materials from our BPC art classroom.

If you were to make this yourself, you would need about $20 worth of materials, and a few hours of getting your hands dirty with glue.

(Bonus: Once the glue on your hands dry, peeling it off will be very satisfying. :))

By: Christina Keung and Katie Wendelken 7A