Ben Starr - How to Make a Sparkleball
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Sparkleballs are those kooky homemade outdoor lighted Christmas balls that you see hanging in trees around the holidays. You make them with plastic cups and Christmas lights. Ben Starr shows you how.
I absolutely love your instructional style. It's very informative and animated. Love the visuals.
Seen plenty of other sparkleball videos and none of them compare to yours. Will definitely
use your video as a guide in making my own sparkleballs so I can have them ready by this christmas. Thanks so much for showing your passion for art.
I hadn't considered fusing the cups together by melting with a soldering iron.. gonna try that! You are exactly right- they won't be perfect. When they are hanging & lit up at night, no one will notice & they will still look cool!
Debbie, just hold your soldering iron pointed down over a newspaper after every 10 or so holes and the plastic will drop off the tip. There will still be blackened burnt plastic on the tip, but this never affected the overall look of the sparkleball...my holes were never dark. The soldering iron should QUICKLY melt the holes, there shouldn't be burning. (You may have a different type of plastic, though.) The strings are unavoidable, just pull them off after they set.
Thank you for this lovely idea.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! Well done, professional, easy to understand and it made me smile! I'll be doing about 8345 of these for our 2014 outdoor Christmas display. :)
So did you?
I just watched how to do the chicken wire balls and I like these a LOT better - both are great holiday ideas and you can get the kids involved in this thanks so much for making the video
Freaking LOVE this! The soldering iron is genius-- so much easier & cleaner-looking than stapling.
Thank you.I love the simple step by step process. I think my husband will be shocked when his bubble brain wife makes this...I am NOT saying you have to brainless to make this .I am saying YOU made it look FUN and EASY. I am already planning for the next year!
Omg..thank you! I didn't know to Souter it like that! I made my first one with hot glue and it was messy..I actually bought the Souter thing and only used it to make holes on the bottom.. I'll do another one tomorrow now that I've seen your video.! Thank you..thank you..thank you.!
I Have seen it done with a stapler much easier but i love this idea
thank you so much for this video!! I can't wait to make my sparkle balls for christmas this year!!
When I was a young kid in the 80'smy Great Grandmother and great Aunts all had these hanging on there porches for Christmas and absolutely love them and always wanted to find o make them ...Ty for sharing !!!!
This is a great demo video. I am following the video and making Sparkle Balls ready for Christmas. I had terrible trouble getting the right size cups in the UK, but now I have found them on Ebay: Solo 50 x 9oz Clear Plastic Cups. Ideal for Sparkle Ball. 50 Cups Per Pack. Once again thanks
Those are crazy cool!
Mulled wine made me smile!
Thank you so mch. Love it. Got my work cut out this year and then some.
Keep the cups stacked as packaged and then in one swope melt holes thru all cups stacked. this method takes seconds--or just keep on melting holes one cup at a time. I use this method to make water holes thru plastic bowls, etc to turn into planters.
That would've been perfect for new years🎉
Thank you for giving me a new idea!
rather than a soldering iron heated, you can use a long round screwdriver heated over the flame of my gas stove to melt the holes thru the center of the stacked cups--just make sure the round end is the right diameter needed for the lights.
BEAUTIFULL JOB!!!! CONGRATULATION!
Very interesting
I will try this
wow beautiful
So in his example he is using those bigger LED lights and I went ahead and tried to make it with teh same exact cups he used and it was two flat sides so it looks like a smooshed ball.. but it doesn't really matter when it's dark and hanging it looks great! now 3 more. I also put way too many bulbs in it. 200 so I made 4 holes in each cup... a waste. Doing 2 holes for the next ones.
Have you tried using the green and red cups in the same style that you have to make red and green balls for LOR?
FYI - 50 cups for one sparkleball =
Step 1 - Join 12cups for 1st layer,
Step 2 - Join 9 cups for 2nd layer,
Step 3 - Join the 2nd layer (9) to 1st Layer (12),
Step 4 - Top with 4 to complete a semi-circule of 25 cups.
Do the some for another semi-circule of 25 cups, insert led lights and
join both semi-circule to form a ball. Complete :)
Thx u, that was so easy
You had me at mulled wine!
bravo!...
Front yard? Please this is going to be my bed room chandelier
you can also use a drill to make holes. Less toxic!
I was like where do I know this guy from??? And then iI look at his picture and I'm all like oh Ben Starr from masterchef
How do you keep your soldering iron clean from all the plastic and not leave dark holes with strings all over the cups?
I used to find these cups everywhere. Now all I find are 9 oz cups that appear to be the wrong size. I have gone to several grocery stores, Sam's Club, Smart & Final, Party City and none work with the 12 cup original circle. It's not like I'm out in te boonies as I'm located in SoCal. Do you know of a good online place that will get me them CHEAP and FAST?
could you make these smaller? We have a small porch and I don't want to over-do it...
I am haiving a hard time getting 12 9oz cups to form a circle. I am able to use 16 cups to orm the circle. What am I doing wrong?
do u really need a soldering iron? cant u just cut holes in the bottom of the cups?
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can u use hot glue instead ?
Se necesita 50 copas de 9 onsas; el demonstro con un soldador, pero es muy toxico. Puedes usar una grampador. Y compra luces de 50 o cien de LED es mejor porque ya haciendolo no puedes cambiar los luces. Preguntas?
thats why you staple it
how big is the glass pliis
can i know the dimension for the cup?
Just made mine used staples
esta muy hermoso suban mas vídeos gracias
pporfavor el tamaño del vaso
hot glue gun?
es vaso d 9oz
No. Glue gun won't work.
Can I use hot glue ????