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Are You Using The Right Fragrant Oils In Your Candles?

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Creating high-quality candles that not only look great but also smell amazing requires a deep understanding of fragrance oils and how they interact with the wax. It’s not just a matter of adding a few drops of your favorite essential oil to the wax and calling it a day. Instead, candle makers must carefully consider which oils work best, which ones have a strong and long-lasting scent, and which ones produce the most pleasant aroma when the candle is burning.

This is the key to creating candles that customers will love and want to come back for again and again.

While some fragrance oils may smell great in the bottle, they may not hold their scent well when mixed with the wax. This can be frustrating for candle makers who are trying to create a signature scent that will become their brand’s hallmark. On the other hand, some oils may smell overpowering and unpleasant when the candle is burning, making it difficult to find the right balance of fragrance. To create the perfect candle scent, candle makers must experiment with different oils and blends until they find the perfect combination. This can take some trial and error, but the end result is worth it.

Make sure you are using the Best oils for your candles.

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Using Pizza and Pretend Play to Learn about Fractions

When my daughter was young she loved the PBS show “Peg + Cat,” and if you’ve got a fan of that show in your house this activity will be even better, but it doesn’t matter if your kids don’t already know these characters to learn about fractions with pizza. 

There’s an episode of “Peg + Cat” where they are working in a pizza place and have to divide pies to put different kinds of toppings of different parts of the pie (there’s also an online game with the same concept, which I can’t believe still exists because my kiddo played it years ago). 

Inspired by the episode and a companion book, Nature Homeschool developed an activity for learning about fractions and entrepreneurship using pizza. They developed a pizza shop and used the printables and teaching guide from Teacher Vision to learn more about fractions using pizza as the foundation. Their post also has a pizza order form printable you can use when you role play a pizza shop. 

The Inspiration Edit also has some cute printable worksheets using a pizza to learn about fractions. And Life Over Cs has some fun printable pizza fraction activities, such as the printable fraction memory game shown here. 

If you want to increase the pretend play factor with this one, you can make a pizza and toppings out of paper, cardboard or felt. Or use a paper plate as your crust and simple shapes cut out of paper to be toppings. The pretend play pizza making kit from Glued to My Crafts uses an individual slice, but you could do the same thing with a whole pie’s worth of slices. 

Kids Craft Room has another fun pizza play food idea, this time using salt dough for the crust. The toppings are made out of felt so you can practice putting different toppings on a fraction of the pizza and learn as you play.