A Good Candle Making Craft For Beginners

Craft projects can be great family fun. Candle making crafts are a particularly good choice. If you’d like to try your hand on a wax project, here’s a good one I found at: candle making crafts

The ingredients you’ll need are: pine cones, wick or a cotton string, and wax.

Gathering the pinecones is a good excuse to get outdoors in nature. If you don’t have any pine trees of your own, a visit to a park should do the trick.

This is an excellent project to use any spare bits of wax you have left over from other projects or from the stubs of used candles. I recommend using paraffin wax to make the fire starters. Soy wax is likely to be too soft and sticky at room temperature to be successful in this application. I consider beeswax too precious to use for for this project. Because I value beeswax so highly, I don’t use it on this type of project.

Once you’ve collected the materials, the project is pretty straightforward. The process is very similar to making dipped candles, only you dip the whole pine cone not just the string.

Wrap a length of string around the pine cone, working it in between the segments, and leaving a length of it extending from the end of the pine cone. You can use candle wick, but this project doesn’t offer anything that fancy.

Melt whatever wax you’re using to about 170 – 190. For safety’s sake, [use a double boiler.

When the wax is that temperature, remove it from the heat and begin dipping the pine cones. It usually works best if you prepare the pine cones before you start, then dip them each once. After the initial dipping, you can let the wax cool slightly then dip each pinecone multiple times until a nice layer of wax as build up on the segments.

Let the wax harden, then trim the string and the fire starter is complete.

Some people want their fire starters to be a little special. If you like, you can color the wax with candle dye and/or add fragrance.

To find more details on even more candle crafts, click here.  And I highly recommend that you follow this link to learn about a complete guide to home candle making.

Have fun making candles.