An Easy Candle Making Craft
Craft projects can be great family fun. Candle making crafts are a particularly good click=’ShowSpinOptions(14)’>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 required are: pine cones, wick or a cotton string, and wax.
Gathering the pinecones is a good excuse to get outdoors in nature. Pine trees are easy to find once you start lookingIf you don’t have any pine trees of your own, you almost certainly can find some at a park.
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. This is not project that requires any fancy wax. Soy wax is expected to be too soft and sticky at room temperature to be successful in this application. I consider beeswax too precious to use for these fire starters. If I had any left over beeswax, I’d save it until I had enough to make another beeswax candle.
The method is straightforward. it’s very much like dipping candles, only you’ll be dipping pinecones instead of just a wick.
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. If you have left over wicking, you can use it but cotton string is generally good enough for this application.
Melt the wax you’ve collected to about 180°. As always, use the usual safety precautions when heating of the wax.
When the wax is that temperature, you can take it off 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 use dye to color them or fragrance to add scent.
To discover 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 trying these crafts.
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