DIY Dollar Tree Light-Up Snowflake Wall Art

This cheap & easy light-up snowflake wall art can be made entirely from Dollar Tree materials or you can upgrade the lights for another buck!

It’s all right there just staring you in the face each and every time you set foot in the store.

They’re not hiding it. They’re not playing tricks on you.

Yep, it’s all right there, plain as day.

The trick is to see it.

And look, I’m not sitting here lecturing you on how to see it, because lord knows I can’t 99% of the time. I’m just lucky enough to have a babes who sees in X-ray FutureVision.

Seriously, though – how else to explain Handan’s knack for looking at ordinary Dollar Tree items and thinking, yeah those’ll go well together!

I wander the aisles of Dollar Tree aimlessly, thinking about what I’m going to make for dinner.

My babes reconnoiters each aisle with military precision and studies the shelves like a hawk scanning a field for rabbits.

I imagine her vision is somewhat like that of the Terminator – a constant stream of text and numbers scrolling by, as she performs calculations on the fly, and instead of threats highlighting in red, potential craft materials are highlighted along with relevant stats and potential complementary products.

It’s the only explanation that makes any sense.

While I’m mentally making a better Bolognese, she’s crafting wall art with robotic efficiency.

Well, I’m not complaining! That brain of hers keeps us in business. I’m just here to look pretty and yap at you here in writing and verbally over at our socials!

Okay, enough preamble, let’s have a look at my babes’ latest Dollar Tree Christmas craft idea – light-up snowflake wall art!

Dollar Tree light-up Snowflake Wall Art VIDEO Tutorial

Watch our short and fun video below for an overview of our Dollar Tree light-up snowflake wall art before you read the detailed step-by-step tutorial.

DIY Dollar Tree Light-Up Snowflake Wall Art Tutorial

Step 1 – Paint the canvas

The beauty of this project comes from the greenery and lights being on a black background. But look, no one is stopping you from doing it on a white background, so if you want the snowy look, keep it white. If you want a darker look, paint it black! I used chalkboard spray paint, but any black paint will work, though I’d recommend keeping the sheen flat.

Step 2 – Feed the lights

Poke a small hole in the middle of the canvas, just large enough to feed through a strand of fairy lights.

Then pull the strand through until you get to the plastic section before the battery pack.

Step 3 – Prepare the picks

Dollar Tree pine picks come in two flavors: flocked and glittered. The choice is obvious, because everyone knows that glitter and greenery go about as well together as peanuts and bubble gum.

Cut the stems off the pine picks with wire cutters.

Step 4 – Wrap the lights

First, it helps to coil the fairy lights around your hand. Then start wrapping the coil around the first pick. With a 10-foot strand, you don’t want to wrap too tightly or with too many wraps – just a few wraps (4-5) going up and a few wraps coming back down the pick.

When you reach the base, leave about an inch of wire and then wrap the next pick.

If you do this with a 10-foot strand, you should have a foot or so of excess wire after wrapping the last pick. This is good, so don’t try to wrap it all!

Step 5 – Glue the snowflake

Arrange your 6 picks into a snowflake shape.

Then hot glue each pick onto the canvas.

Do this for all 6 picks and then…

Step 6 – Add a pinecone

Hot glue a small pinecone in the center of the snowflake.

Step 7 – Wrap the rest of the lights

Wrap the rest of the lights around the pinecone, and you’re almost there!

Step 8 – Flock the canvas (optional)

While making this project, the pine picks shed a lot of their flocking onto the canvas. We decided we liked it, so to keep it locked in, I sprayed the whole canvas with clear coat while Handan shook more pine picks from a second pack onto the wet clear coat. We think it looks great, but it’s totally up to you. As a bonus, the clear coat on the chalkboard paint gave a slightly cloudy look when it dried – almost like erased chalk on a chalkboard – we love it!

Step 9 – Frame it (optional)

You can frame your masterpiece with any frame you may have on hand, or you can DIY one like I did. I used one 8-foot cedar fence board and cut it down to size to make two simple frames using wood glue and brad nails – no miters, just a simple rustic frame.

And here they are – beautiful Christmas snowflake wall art with Dollar Tree materials!