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5 Candle Displays That Anyone Can Make

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The holiday season is a time for warmth, joy, and the cozy glow of candles. Whether you’re hosting a festive dinner party or simply looking for ways to add some holiday cheer to your home, displaying candles in a decorative manner is a wonderful way to create a warm and inviting atmosphere.

This Christmas roundup is a curated collection of some of the most creative and beautiful candle displays that are perfect for any holiday occasion. From elegant and traditional to modern and whimsical, there is something for every style and taste.

The displays showcase how candles can be used to create a focal point on your Christmas table, coffee table, or mantelpiece. Some of the ideas include using natural elements such as pinecones, holly, and berries to add a festive touch to your candles, while others feature unique and creative ways to display candles, such as using vintage lanterns or repurposing wine bottles.

What’s great about these candle displays is that they can be easily customized to suit your personal style and taste. You can mix and match different elements to create a unique and personalized display that reflects your individuality.

Not only do these candle displays look beautiful, but they also create a cozy and warm atmosphere that is perfect for the holiday season. Whether you’re spending time with family and friends or simply enjoying a quiet night in, the soft glow of candlelight is sure to create a relaxing and inviting ambiance.

Mixture of candles on a cake plate make a lovely display.

Glue dried leaves onto glassware to create this natural effect.

This wood box of candles creates a lovely effect.

Display candles in concrete pillars for a dramatic modern effect. (More Concrete Candle Ideas)

Epsom Salt Candle Display on a bed of Epsom Salts. Perfect for a Winter Christmas table.

 

 

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Apple Learning Activities

When apples are in season or at back to school time are great times to learn with apples. Whether you use real apples or just apple shapes, it adds a sweet dimension to your lessons. 

Reading and Writing with Apples

Because it’s the beginning of the school year, too, there are lots of apple crafts having to do with name recognition for the little kids. You can just take foam apple shapes and write letters or the children’s names on the apples, or make an apple tree name craft like this one from Simple Everyday Mom. The post includes a tree template and apple shapes to make the craft. 

Or practice individual letter recognition with this apple find the letter activity from PBS. You can also write letters on a tree shape and use paint or do a dot markers to cover the letters as you recognize them like in this idea from Growing Book by Book. The ABC apple tree from Stir the Wonder is another good one for recognizing individual letters.

Only Passionate Curiosity has a (paid) really cute read and writing mini book about apples, and DLTK has two printable mini books, one easier and one more challenging, about planting a seed and waiting for it to grow apples. Learn colors as you read the mini book I See Apples from Fun-A-Day.

And Look We’re Learning has cute printable apple shapes with common CVC words on them that you can play with in lots of different ways.

Apple Math

Fun-A-Day has a printable counting book featuring apples, so you can get a little math and literacy in at once. This one has the child add the apples, or you can use their 10 red apples book that already has the apples in the tree.

Natural Beach Living has printable counting apple cards as well as apple count and clip cards you can use for practicing one to one correspondence (you can also use beads or other manipulatives instead of clips if you want).

Use paper plate apples (and a real apple) to explain fractions to kids with this idea from Crafty Kids at Home.

Learn to count to ten and get some fine motor skill practice along the way with the golf tee ten frame from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Apple Science 

Learn about the life cycle of the apple and much more with this set of (paid) printables from Simple Everyday Mom.

Creative Family Fun has a great set of apple science experiments. Make an apple volcano, try different ways to preserve apples, make apple boats and more. And of course you’ll want to have an apple taste test or explore what happens when you add heat to apples (apple pie or apple sauce!).

And check out this great apple investigation activity for little kids from Early Learning Ideas, which shows kids lots of different ways to measure and classify real apples based on their color, weight, size and more. (Includes paid resources)

More Apple Learning

Get a great apple unit study for preschoolers and kindergarten from Real Life at Home. Every Star is Different has a Montessori-inspired preschool apple unit with free printables (hers as well as links to others). 

You can find more unit studies and activity ideas from Natural Beach Living and How Wee Learn.

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