This document provides instructions for making homemade chimney smoke Christmas lights. It involves using wire to form puffs of smoke shapes and wrapping them with white and red Christmas lights. The lights are then attached to a pole and secured to a chimney to create the illusion of smoke rising into the sky. Supplies needed include strands of red and white lights, a wooden or PVC pole, wire, duct tape, and optionally black paint.

1. How To Make Your Own Homemade Chimney Smoke Christmas Lights
•Designed and invented by Andrew Frenz
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2. Project
•Create the illusion of puffs of smoke rising into the sky above your chimney to spruce up your Christmas Light Display!

3. Supplies
•1 Strand of Red Christmas Lights
•1 Strand of White Christmas Lights
•Wooden Pole 6-8 feet long (stiff PVC may be used as well)
•Wire that is stiff enough to be shaped into puffs of smoke and hold its shape
•Black Duct Tape
•Optionally Black Paint

4. Get a 6-8 foot wooden or PVC pole
Form 3 puffs of smoke out of wire. Make a large, medium, and small.

5. Place the wire puffs on the pole. Evenly space along the pole leaving a sizable gap between each puff so they appear as separate.

6. Use black duct tape to secure each puff to the pole. Wrap the tape around the pole and wire in a crisscrossed fashion to secure the wire in place.

7. Wrap the white Christmas lights around the wire. Start at the bottom, follow the left edge to the top, then follow the right edge back down to the bottom.
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8. Wrap the pole between each puff with the black duct tape in order to cover up and hide the white Christmas lights between puffs. This will create the illusion of the puffs rising into the sky.

9. Optionally paint the rest of the pole black or wrap in black duct tape to hide it better when it is dark out. Lighter wood may reflect the light if not covered in black.

10. Secure the pole to the chimney in whatever way works best for your chimney. Bolt it in, wrap wire around the chimney, build a base, etc.

11. Wrap the chimney brick in red Christmas lights.

12. Connect the strings to an outlet and light it up!

13. Optionally brace the larger puffs with a cross-beam to stabilize in the wind (depending on how stiff your wire is).

17. I made a base for the pole out of a spare 2X4 by drilling it and using a jigsaw to cut a hole the size of the pole