Unique Light-up Pumpkin Earring for the Halloween Party

Halloween is the perfect time of year to bring out your wild side! I found this string of Pumpkin LED that you can use for all sorts of different things. With only having 4 wires to solder into 2 strands, it’s easy and quick enough for any Halloween party crafter on the go!!! Let’s get started creating our very own light-up pumpkin earrings together!!!!

Gather your Materials

• Pumpkin LED string
• Button battery case with switch
• Button Battery
• Pleather
• earring Hook
• Chain
• Soldering Iron / solder
• Third arm
• E6000
• Awl
• Scissor
• Wire strippers
• Heat Shrink
• Heat Gun

Creating the Light-up Pumpkin Earrings

First, cut out the leaf pattern and trace it onto the leather then cut out the leather and set it aside. Next cut as close to the pumpkin as the one you desire to use. This will ensure you get as much length of wire as possible. It will also make sure that the pumpkin strand will not have extra wires hanging off the very end. Repeat so that you have two free pumpkins.

It’s time to make these pumpkins light up, and you’re all set up for the perfect project. Just plug in your soldering iron so that it is hot when ready!

Soldering the LEDS

Strip about 3/8″ off each of the wires and grab a battery. These LEDs are directional so we need to ensure that we are soldering the positive to the positive and the negative to the negative!!! Take the battery and pinch the wires to either side of the battery until the LED lights up. This will tell you which wire is the positive and which is negative.

Let’s start with the positive side. Twist the wires strands of the positive side and then bend into a hook. Using a third arm place the wire in one of the alligator clips. On the Button Battery case clip, the wires to the desired lengthen and also strip the coating off at about 3/8 of an in. Twist and create a hook. Grab the heat shrink and thread it onto the wire!!! If you forget you will have to undo the solder point to attach the heat shrink covering!!! Before clipping to the third arm hook the two positive wires together and hold a little bit of tension on them.

Time to use the soldering iron and some solder. Heat up the wires first then add the solder to the mix!!! Once you have a nice bit of solder on the pull the extra solder away and finish smoothing the solder on the wires.

Repeat all the steps with the negative side

Test the circuit before you shrink the heat shrink. This way if there are any bad connections or you accidentally solder the positive to the negative it can still be easily fixed.

Adding the LED to the earring

Now it is time to add these fun LEDs to the leather and add the hardware to create new Unique Earrings!!!

Final Earrings

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Love this pin check out some of the other light-up projects I have. Such as the felt flower light-up earrings or this fun Felt Pumpkin Pin. Get some inspiration and create some for yourself. Then post a picture below!!! I would love to see what you create!!!