Glowing Watering Can with Fairy Lights

Materials for Making a Watering Can with String Lights

• Watering can like these with removable shower head. Here’s a tip (and I tried this the wrong way first LOL), make sure the watering can is large enough. If it is too small, it will be nearly impossible to get any lights into it properly.

• Fairy Lights – this set of lights is perfect and so is this set (the prices change often!). 

• Shepard’s hook like this or a hanging flower basket hook like this

• Screw driver (or tool of choice) to widen the hole in the watering can’s shower head. If the holes in your watering can are large enough to slide the lights through, then you’re good to go! However, the couple of watering cans that I tried when attempting this both needed to have the holes widened.

How to Make a Watering Can with Lights

Gently remove the shower head from the watering can and set it aside.

Using a screw driver (or your tool of choice), make the holes bigger on the shower head of the watering can. In my case, I widened 9 of the holes. Place the lights inside the watering can and push them up and out of the spout.

One by one, feed the strings of fairy lights through shower head. Gently place the shower head back on the watering can. Hang the watering can on a hook. “Fluff” the lights over your garden or plans so that they look like they’re all going in the same direction. Turn on the lights and enjoy!

I JUST LOVE how it lights up the flowers in my raised garden! I like to have fun with my garden so I mix things up all of the time just to make it pretty. Right now we are growing small pumpkins (on the right) for the fall, as well as green onions, mini pink roses, and some other colorful flowers. It looks PERFECT from any angle.

My kids are mesmerized by the lights and they think it looks like magic. It really does! I would love to figure out a way to make a smaller version for a fairy garden. Howe magical would that be?

Watering Can with Lights Directions: