Why let Christmas get all the fun of luminaries and villages? A few mason jars and some adhesive vinyl can transform into a spooky village! It only took me about 15 minutes to put together this Halloween Mason Jar Luminary Village, and I can always remove the vinyl after Halloween and use the jars for something else.
HALLOWEEN MASON JAR LUMINARY VILLAGE
FREE HALLOWEEN LUMINARY SVG
I started by using some of PicMonkey’s Halloween overlays to create cute designs that I then uploaded into the Cricut Design Space. Next, I made sure the designs would fit on the mason jars and used my Cricut to cut them out on silver adhesive vinyl. You can download that SVG here.
WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE HALLOWEEN LUMINARIES
I used black mercury glass look jars, but you could get a similar look by lighting spraying regular mason jars with black spray paint. Make sure to leave some areas bare so that the light can shine through.
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- black mercury glass mason jars
- Cricut
- silver adhesive vinyl
- led light strand
- battery-powered tea lights
HOW TO MAKE A MASON JAR HALLOWEEN VILLAGE
I weeded out the excess vinyl and decided where on each jar I would place the vinyl. Since the designs were so simple, I didn’t even bother using transfer tape.
I positioned the vinyl on the jar and smoothed out any bubbles.
So quick and easy! It took me maybe five minutes to apply all the vinyl to my four jars. The jars make a scary cute village just like this, but they look pretty cool in low light too.
HOW TO MAKE MASON JAR LUMINARIES
For this look, I put some cool white led string lights in the jars to give them a starry look. Since these jars are faux mercury glass the black paint obscures some of the light from inside.
I also tried the jars out with some battery-powered tea lights with “real flickering action.” I took a 30-second video so you can see what they look like using these candles. No, that isn’t a spooky sound effect track I added to the video, that’s just what our yard sounds like when the dumb cicadas are out.
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