Street Lamp Post Made Using Battery Operated Floral LED Lights

 

I was walking through the floral section and saw these lights and thought how cool it would be to use these as exterior lights. These lights are very bright and have a slight blue hue to them. The picture above shows them in a dark room. You twist the top to turn them on and off they are $6.99 for a pack of four.

I started with "Woodsies" dowels, acorn dowel cap, doll pin stand, tire and submersible battery LED lights by Ashland from Michaels craft store.

 I glued all of the pieces together and made a tall (19.5 inches) and a medium (13 inches) size lamp, I was not sure about the size I wanted. I used two different designs on the lamp base, the medium post didn't seem like it needed the extra bulk at the bottom. I added a wooden square to the bottom of the base for stability. The first post is before the second dowel was added and I finished it off with a furniture button another "Woodsies" .

I added a furniture button to finish the open end of the dowel. 

I cut off the clip

I unscrewed the bottom half of the light, which holds the battery from the top. I glued the top (grey/silver plastic) to the post and masked off the thread part so paint would not get on it and not allow it to screw back together. I used hammered metal black spray paint, because thats what I had on hand.

If you want a free standing lamp post, on the taller lamp I would use metal washers at the bottom to give it more weight, otherwise it would be too top heavy. I plan to glue mine to the sidewalk outside my bakery, hopefully it will be enough to hold it up without the weighted bottom. If not I will add the washers.