What's more romantic for Valentines day than candles? Add a personal touch to your romance by making your own beeswax candles. This is fun activity to do on your own, with friends, or with that special someone.

Make Your Own Candles . . .

Ingredients: Colored sheets of beeswax, wick, hair dryer, cookie cutters

Candle 1: The simplest way to make a candle is to roll up the sheet of wax, placing the wick on the side from you start rolling the wax.

In order to do this, heat up the sheet of wax using the hair dryer, until it is flexible, and a little sticky (use hair dryer on low setting). DO NOT however melt the wax to a point where it will not hold together as a sheet anymore, and will be hard to work with!

by using a triangle of wax you can make a candle that is thick on the bottom, and gets thinner towards the top. Use a few layers stuck together to make the candle thicker/thinner. Also use different colors on the layers to make the candle look cooler.

Candle 2:

Another type of candle you can make is one with designs on it.

First, simply roll up a candle that will have the same thickness throughout (follow the step described above, but do not cut the sheet of wax into a triangle). The width of the sheet of wax you use will be the height of your candle. As before, control the thickness of your candle by using more/less layers of wax.

Once you have you candle, cut out a shape using a cookie cutter of a design that you would like on your candle. heat up the cut out design, and the area on your candle that the design will go, and then stick them together.

Candle 3:

Using cookie cutters you can also make candles of different shapes.

Cut out an even number of the same shape from your sheet of wax (if you want you can use different color to give it a cool effect when it burns). Use about 14-18 shapes.

using the hair dryer to warm the shapes, stick half of them together, one at a time. When half of your shapes are stuck together firmly, place the wick on top of them, and continue sticking the rest of the shapes. The wick will end up being in the middle of the candle.

That is all there is to making candles out of sheets of beeswax!

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