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I have been working on my amusement park area and I have a nice midway started.  The only thing missing was something in the middle to break up the games from the food areas.  I wanted to do something similar to what I saw growing up (round concrete areas with a lite tree in the middle) 

So after Christmas my wife and I are hitting the stores for after Christmas Clearance items.  I start to find some items that I think will work.  I found a few plastic candy containers for 90% off so only a dime each. (Yes I did eat the candy)  Next was some small led lights for 90% off of 5.00 so only 50 cents and I still have 11 left over after cutting the strands. 

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At another store I came across across their holiday village type stuff and picked up a small container of rocks and this was only a buck.  Finally, the trees came in a 3 pack and I was surprised they were on clearance due to them being summer trees not your typical snow covered pine trees.  This was marked down to 3 dollars or basically a buck a tree.  

Painted the containers a rust color and glued in the base of the trees

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Drilled holes in the bottom of the plastic containers to run the LED lights through each one and hot glued them into place

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Filled each container with the pebbles

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Wired them up in the midway and enjoyed my under 5.00 project.

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I love this idea - whether you got inspired from a source or not, your creation is something to be proud of.

A warning of sorts on those lights: I bought a 10-lite set at the dollar store and powered them with a wal-wort.  One by one they quit working.   I used a 4.5V DC one from Radio Shack and it is regulated.

I'd like to hear more from you after you've had them turned off and on a dozen or so times because I have a use for them but don't want to waste my time again if they burn out so easily.

- walt

walt rapp posted:

A warning of sorts on those lights: I bought a 10-lite set at the dollar store and powered them with a wal-wort.  One by one they quit working.   I used a 4.5V DC one from Radio Shack and it is regulated.

I'd like to hear more from you after you've had them turned off and on a dozen or so times because I have a use for them but don't want to waste my time again if they burn out so easily.

- walt

Walt, 

I was hoping I wouldn't have had to report this but unfortunately the same thing is happening to me after 1 week. Out of the 9 lights 3 are out and 1 is blinking.  Lucky I can quickly empty the stone and replace these cheap led Christmas lights with some better ones that I purchased as stand alone led and were never part of a Christmas set.  Oh well it was worth a try and I am only out 50 cents. 

Bryan, We at Paradise and Pacific have great luck using 5mm LED lights we buy from China 100 a pack for about 5 bucks. Solder in a 220 resistor and shrink wrap the assembly, we make them for about .25 a piece and had several running daily for 2 years. When you drop them through the bottom of the candy ring, gang solder into one feed with crimp on or solder spades for your power strip.

 

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