Mushroom Night Lamp DIY Craft Kit with Glass Dome

Read the assembly steps before you decide on this one, because they say more about the kit than the description does. You bend wire into mushroom shapes and fix it with hot melt glue. You model a base to look like a curved lawn. You paint it brown, let it dry, brush on latex and sprinkle grass powder. Then the glass cover goes on and the lights go in.

That is a genuine craft project, and it is a good one. It is not a kit you snap together in ten minutes.

What is confirmed

• Finished size: 4.72 x 3.54 in (12 x 9 cm).
• Materials listed: glass and wood.
• Runs on three AAA batteries, which are not included.
• Arrives disassembled.

What is not confirmed

Everything else the instructions ask for. The wire, the hot glue, the clay, the brown paint, the latex and the grass powder are all named in the steps and none of them appears in the materials line. The kit is described as providing all the essentials, and there is no pack list anywhere to check that against. For a craft kit, the pack list is the product. Ask for it before ordering, or budget for a trip to a craft shop.

Good to know

The copy says no artistic talent is needed. Sculpting a base and painting it is artistic talent, applied at a beginner level. Someone who enjoys the process will get a good small lamp out of it. Someone who wanted a lamp will find they bought an afternoon of work instead.

Size

At 4.72 x 3.54 in (12 x 9 cm) the finished piece is a desk object, roughly the footprint of a coffee mug and its saucer. It will not light a room and it is not meant to.