How to make these easy and fun floating witch hats for your front porch or inside!
I've wanted to make these cute DIY "floating" luminary witch hats for our porch for years! They turned out to be a really easy way to add some cute Halloween decorations to our front porch, but you could hang them anywhere for easy decor.
I tried a couple methods of creating these hanging hats with two lighting options, and I'll share both here. Both are very simple, but one is so simple it only take a couple minutes to create each witch hat luminary.
I started with these inexpensive black witch hats:
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This witch hat set came with 12 hats and a bunch of cute plastic bat cutouts as well. (This set has six hats if you don't need as many.)
My first tutorial uses LED votives that operate on a timer — once you turn them on, they'll run for a certain amount of time. So turn them on in the evening and they'll operate every evening after.
I used fishing line for this project because you want the hats to look as though they're floating around on your porch. 🙂 If you don't have that on hand, dental floss works as well. (These don't weigh much!)
How to make your witch hats glow
I tied the line around the "flame" of the votives:
