{"id":11623,"date":"2025-11-02T02:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/weekend-diy-lighting-tips-tin-can-lanterns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:44:16","slug":"weekend-diy-lighting-tips-tin-can-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/weekend-diy-lighting-tips-tin-can-lanterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns (5)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1516-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simple and very quick to do! All you need are:<\/p>\n<p>1.) <strong>Old tin(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.) <strong>A nail<\/strong> (or something similar to punch holes in the tin &#8211; and<strong> a hammer<\/strong> of course)<\/p>\n<p>3.) Tea Lights (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;field-keywords=tin%20can&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=thluli-21&amp;url=search-alias%3Dapshttp:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;field-keywords=tin%20can&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=thluli-21&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;field-keywords=tin%20can&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=thluli-21&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>First things first, remove the lid on the tin &#8211; we do need a way to get our tea lights in. \ud83d\ude42 The next part is probably the best &#8211; essentially, depending on your skills and\/or artistic flair, you punch out holes on a tin to a pattern that you like. Easy patterns are a Star, Heart shape, Square&#8230; etc &#8211; you get my drift. Finally, you pop the tea lights in and voila &#8211; you have a <strong>Tin Can Lantern<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-710\" alt=\"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tin-Can-Tea-Light-Holders-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tin-Can-Tea-Light-Holders-s.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tin-Can-Tea-Light-Holders-s.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Tin-Can-Tea-Light-Holders-s.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709\" alt=\"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN7480-1-dragged-2-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN7480-1-dragged-2-s.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN7480-1-dragged-2-s.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCN7480-1-dragged-2-s.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns (4)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blog\/4289795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-708\" alt=\"Weekend DIY Lighting Tips: Tin Can Lanterns (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/enh_3263lr-s.jpg?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/enh_3263lr-s.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/enh_3263lr-s.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/enh_3263lr-s.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple and very quick to do! All you need are: 1.) Old tin(s) 2.) A nail (or something similar to punch holes in the tin &#8211; and a hammer of course) 3.) Tea Lights (real or fake) First things first, remove the lid on the tin &#8211; we do need a way to get our &hellip; Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[927],"tags":[1317,1318,1319,1320],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-bathroom","tag-bedroom","tag-dining-room","tag-living-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}