Have you done a "search" on the front forum page for this info? If you can't find it there, you might want to just type that info in your web browser line "oil lamps using cooking oil"

I have a vague memory of doing this in high school... but most of my teen years are a vague memory...lol
Post some photos of yours when done!

Here is a link to start you off.

Here is a link that might be useful: oil lamp

I've never heard of them before. That was a great link !
On the first page -- in the right column there is a link to making a vodka bottle lamp. If you take a peek in the instructions - it calls for a small round LED light that turns on and off when you push it . I've never seen them before either ! Do you know what they are talking about ?
I have visions of colored bottles all in a row all lit up . Any ideas ? ; )

This might be some help. I hope so.

Here is a link that might be useful: How to make an olive oil lamp

Not sure what you want.....but a few years ago we made oil lamps with canning jars.

You just fill the jar with lamp oil (we filled the jars with silk flowers or ivy. Oil doesn't hurt the flowers)

put a small hole with a nail in the center and poked a wick in it. The fiberglass wicks don't burn away they just soak up the oil and it burns at the top.

The amount of wick you have pulled out controls the size of the flame.

tie a pretty bow around the top and you are done. They are really quite pretty. and sold well at the time.

patti

Hey TMG, I purchased some small LED lights at AC Moore for, I think 2.00 ea. or so. Had a big plan for them but it hasn't materialized yet. They have small on/off switches and look like little flames. Battery operated. Found them back in August in the fall seasonal section. michael's would probably have them.

I have some of those little lights that I've had since last Christmas..and I've used them off and on since. The other day I turned one on in the morning while dusting and forgot about it...that night when I turned out all the lights to go to bed it was still twinkling away. The seem to last and last. I bought mine at Walgreens for $1.50

I love them...

I bought some for my oldest daughter...she has set three fires in her house by burning candles...so we get her things , like smoke detectors , electric wax candles....and such as a joke.

Oh...and I just re-read what I wrote above about making the oil lamps out of jars...

You poke the hole in the canning jar lid...not into the jar itself (which is what it sounded like I was saying)

patti