• When the party is over and night turns back to day, you may be left with a bunch of long, plastic tubes strewn around your home. These once-bright accessories are called glow sticks and they come in sizes to fit as necklaces and bracelets. While they may seem like fodder for the trash bin once they’ve burned out--which is usually after a few hours--repurpose them for craft projects, or use new glow sticks to fashion a tabletop decoration. Soon you’ll be seeing the light again.
  
  

Welcome Mat

• The strong, solid plastic of glow necklaces offers a great surface for a space-age style welcome mat to greet visitors at your front door. Creating a single mat will take quite a few necklaces; round up as many burned out necklaces as you can and lay them together to see how wide of a mat you can make. Remove any connectors, which are the small plastic pieces that hook ends of the necklaces together in a loop. Draw a line of super glue down one side of a glow necklace. Gently press another necklace in line with the first, keeping a tissue handy to wipe away any excess glue. Repeat this process with all of your necklaces, making the mat as wide as possible. Place the mat at your front door.
  
  

Photo Glow

• Transform any plain photo holder into a far-out frame with a couple of used glow bracelets or necklaces. While a burnt-out glow bracelet doesn’t retain as much of its bright hue, it still gets a bit of a tint from the chemicals that remain inside. Glue necklaces to the long sides of a photo frame and bracelets to the shorter sides. For added flair and texture, create pyramids by gluing glow sticks on top of each other in the crevices between the tubes.
  
  

Vibrant Vase

• Make your dinner table come alive with vases made with new glow bracelets. Because glow jewelry lasts only a few hours, complete this craft close to the time of an actual dinner party. Locate clear glass vases and coordinate glow bracelet colors with your dining table decor, matching napkins or plate colors. Glow bracelets come in neon colors such as pink, green and blue. Just before guests are to arrive, open the bracelet packages and “snap” the bracelets. (Snapping is the process that activates the chemicals and creates the neon glow.) Use connectors to attach them in rings around the vases. Use a single color to surround a tall vase or alternate bracelet colors for a colorful glow.