AdventurerKatziA self-cast candle is a nice gift. You only need wax residue or old candles, an empty screw glass and a piece of string for the wick.
Melt the crushed wax and then carefully pour the liquid wax into a screw glass. You can pour several layers one after the other when casting, so you get great effects.
Try it out, but let an adult help you. With boiling water and hot wax there is a great risk of injury!
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Uses old candles or wax remnants of burnt candles.
Cut large pieces of wax small and place it in a melting pot. Make sure to remove burnt wick and sooty places. Because these contaminate the melted wax and do not look beautiful. Fill the crucible to a maximum of 2/3.
Then you heat a pot with water. Do not use a coated pot.
Stay with it when the wax melts!
Make sure that no water gets into the wax.
Now put an empty screw glass on a kitchen crepe. The glass must be clean and dry. Then you put another wooden stick, to which you attach a piece of wick.
For this you knot the wick to the wooden stick. Do not cut off the wick yet.
The wick reaches to the bottom of the glass. Measures the length of the wick at the height of the glass.
Now you hang it on the wooden stick in the glass. The wick reaches to the glass floor.
Now fill the hot wax (together with an adult) into the glass. If individual pieces of wax have not yet melted, try to hold it back with a second wooden stick. Make sure not to water the hanging wick with wax.
You can move the wick back and forth as long as the wax is still liquid.
Now you leave the glass to cool down.
If the wax is hardened, remove the wooden stick and shorten the wick.
Finished is a beautiful candle made of old wax. A beautiful homemade gift!
Tip: To give away, tie a banderole with a spell around the candle glass.
Enjoy upcycling!
Materials
Directions
Uses old candles or wax remnants of burnt candles.
Cut large pieces of wax small and place it in a melting pot. Make sure to remove burnt wick and sooty places. Because these contaminate the melted wax and do not look beautiful. Fill the crucible to a maximum of 2/3.
Then you heat a pot with water. Do not use a coated pot.
Stay with it when the wax melts!
Make sure that no water gets into the wax.
Now put an empty screw glass on a kitchen crepe. The glass must be clean and dry. Then you put another wooden stick, to which you attach a piece of wick.
For this you knot the wick to the wooden stick. Do not cut off the wick yet.
The wick reaches to the bottom of the glass. Measures the length of the wick at the height of the glass.
Now you hang it on the wooden stick in the glass. The wick reaches to the glass floor.
Now fill the hot wax (together with an adult) into the glass. If individual pieces of wax have not yet melted, try to hold it back with a second wooden stick. Make sure not to water the hanging wick with wax.
You can move the wick back and forth as long as the wax is still liquid.
Now you leave the glass to cool down.
If the wax is hardened, remove the wooden stick and shorten the wick.
Finished is a beautiful candle made of old wax. A beautiful homemade gift!
Tip: To give away, tie a banderole with a spell around the candle glass.
Enjoy upcycling!
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