Handmade Christmas Candles!!

       On Tuesday I made a Christmas candle (fondly named after mouths: “Wax Gums Eschew Christmas Molars”) with my roommates. Although we managed to get wax all over our kitchen, it is fairly easy to make a candle of your own RIGHT NOW if you already have a candle! Sounds a little too simple, right? RECYCLING!

       Your local thrift store is a great place to get extra candles to melt and jars to put your finished candles in. You can just melt the candles you buy and reuse the wicks from them for your own candle. The best part of making candles is that there are no rules; you’re free to make whatever you can imagine!

Here are some optional ingredients (most of which I put in mine):

-Dye (or melt colored candles)

-Candy canes

-Magic

-Aromatic oils, perfume, mix your own! (Or melt fancy smelling candles)

-Insert incense sticks before the wax melts

-Blackberries

-Coffee Beans ~“Are you heating up coffee? Nope, just a candle”

-Sunflower seeds

-Paint the inside or outside of the jar!

-“Toothpicks work as an extra wick” ~Ryan {Blame him if it doesn’t work}

-Put newspaper clippings around inside of jar

-Ink (only in the middle layers because it doesn’t mix with wax)

-Cloves, pumpkin spices…actually any kind of spice!

          You can layer the colors by waiting for the wax to dry after each layer. Also, wax and water don’t mix well so my roommate, Ezrah, discovered that you can make complex tunnels after the wax dries by adding water to the liquid wax.