The Glamorous Christmas Candlestick Holders You Can DIY With Dollar Tree Items

If you're looking for a beautiful, distinctive, and inexpensive way to decorate your holiday table or mantle this year, the solution includes the box of ornaments you already own. Since decorating tastes and tree décor can change from year to year, you may find yourself with an overabundance of plastic ball ornaments that usually just end up getting thrown out or tucked away until next year. You may also have balls missing hooks or with other damage that make them a poor fit for the tree. Luckily, there's a TikTok DIY that demonstrates how you can put those ornaments to good use with a few inexpensive Dollar Trees supplies (via TikTok). They include plastic wine glasses and bamboo skewers to turn the ordinary ornaments into stunning candle holders with lots of holiday festiveness and flare. 

You will need a glue gun, as well as any other holiday bits and bobs like beads, crystals, sprigs of greenery, or other accents to fully customize your candle holders. You can actually make several holders for well under $5 in materials. They look especially lovely in groupings, while holding tea lights, votives, or small pillars. You can even make longer and shorter ones by varying the length of your skewer and the number of ornaments you use. 

To create your holiday ornament candles, remove the stemware glasses from the base, then spray paint the bases in a color to match your holiday décor, like gold, red, or green. You will need two bases per candle, one as the bottom, and the other will be placed on top and hold your candle. Once the paint has dried, add a wooden skewer in the center hole of a wine glass base, using a few dabs of hot glue to keep it in place and upright. To prepare your ornaments, remove any hooks or caps, then use a wooden dowel heated over a candle to poke a hole opposite the existing one (you could also use an awl or a small drill bit). 

Thread the ornaments down over the skewer and stack them until you reach your desired height, using a little hot glue to keep them firmly in place on the skewer. At the top, add another wineglass base with some glue, but inverted so that the flat part can hold a candle. 

There are numerous ways to customize your new candle holder to match your décor, including adding Crafter's Square Pearl Beads from the Dollar Tree between each ornament to fill in the gaps where they rest together. Or add some extra interest around the top or bottom with other fun elements, like twine, tinsel, or ribbon. However, if you were to add these elements, an electric candle may be best to use to avoid a potential fire. For a fun spin, use clear plastic ornaments and fill them with fake snow, glitter, or holiday elements, like berries or poinsettia flowers. 

For a great Christmas dining room décor idea, attach small votive holders or tumblers to the top for more sheltered flame perfect for holiday centerpieces for those celebrating Christmas on a budget. These candle holders also make a pretty holiday mantel décor idea that adds varying levels of height.