Lighthouse Craft: Summer Foam Lighthouse

Craft Materials

Before starting this project, you’ll need the following materials:

Paint, FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Cones, FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Cutter, FloraCraft Smooth Finish®, Mini Babyfood jars, Tea Lights, Glue

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Today I’m sharing my new FloraCraft® project for this month!! It’s a Lighthouse Craft!

I was really excited when I opened my box and found the FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Cones. It took me some time to think what exactly I was going to make with them. Then all of the sudden I saw the outline of a lighthouse and a light went off! I couldn’t wait to start testing out ideas!

I knew I didn’t want to go with the traditional Nautical colors. I decided to use my favorite colors for these so they would totally go perfect with my color scheme in the house.

I’ve never done a lighthouse project before so I was really excited! I just think there so beautiful and cool.

Getting Started

Since FloraCraft® sent me most of my supplies (yay) I just had to pick out my paint colors and go through my craft stash and find some baby food jars.

Time to get crafting!!

Step 1 – Cover Cone in Smooth Finish

To start off this craft I went over both cones with the FloraCraft Smooth Finish®. I just smoothed is down with my fingers (super simple) and let dry 4 hours. Once the cones were dry I lightly sanded them down.

Step 2 – Paint Cone

Next, I painted them both white.

Step 3 – Cut Top Off

Now it’s time to cut the tips off. I just eyed it.

I wanted to make sure it would be the same size as the baby food jar lid. The FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Cutter is so easy to use, I just LOVE it! It cut through the foam perfect.

Step 4 – Paint Your Lines

Ok, making straight lines on a cone is NOT easy. So I put my thinking cap on and tried to figure out how to attempt this. I thought rubber bands would be perfect.

It did, BUT I only had the two large rubber bands and I had three cones to do. Then I didn’t have the size to do the top. So if you can find several large rubber bands to fit the top and bottom that would be perfect!

So I just decided to free hand it… I ended up making it look a little better then this. ;-)

Step 5 – Add Windows and Door

Now it’s time to add the window and doors!

First I painted on the black windows, then once it dried I added the white lines in between. Super Simple!

Step 6 – Add Candles

(BATTERY OPERATED CANDLES)

My favorite part, adding the lights! I knew right away that I wanted to use a baby food jar for the top. I painted the lids to match the lighthouse and then used tacky glue to keep in place.

I let them dry a couple hours before I placed the jars on top.