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Crash Candles Featuring Angela Adams Line

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Artist and designer Angela Adams has created a line of eco-friendly scented soy candles in glass tumblers that feature painted natural scenes. Angela also designs hand-woven rugs, bedding and home accessories.

There are eight different designs and scents in the line, but the one I received (shown here) is called Cloud. The artwork depicts whimsical painted clouds and birds in blue. The soy candle is smartly packaged without plastic in a pretty decorated cardboard box.

Since this scented candle is 100% soy wax, it lasts a long time and the beautiful tumbler is of course reusable. The cotton wick burns brightly and the lavender scent is more earthy (hippie like?) than floral.

My preference leans more towards the floral, but it’s still a pleasant fragrance. The men in my family were mad about it!

Candle Purchase Information

The suggested retail price of each 7.5 oz. tumbler is $24.95. It’s a little pricey for a candle, but not if you consider that you’re paying for a unique and permanent painted design.

Crash Candles is featuring the line, so visit their website to view the remaining candle collection. Crash also features several other candle/art collections by contemporary designers including Zuz Design, Binth and Lotta Jansdotter.

Alternately, you can see Angela’s home décor products along with her candles at Angelaadams.com.

 

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Learning about Hanukkah is important for people of all faiths as a reminder that December isn’t just about Christmas and that their are many other important holidays that happen during this time. Hanukkah unit studies can give you ideas for incorporating the holiday into your holiday studies that happen in December, or to use at home for learning about people of different faiths.

Homeschool Superfreak has a lot of basic ideas for how to build a Hanukkah unit study, as well as FAQs about what Hanukkah is and why it is celebrated. This list is a good stargint point but doesn’t include all the details you’ll need. For example it says you can play the dreidel game but doesn’t explain how to do that or why it’s important. (If you need that information, this post from Mama Smiles is a good source.)

Teachers Pay Teachers has lots of great lesson plans and activities if you’re willing to pay a little bit to get some good content. Two I really like are this Hanukkah PowerPoint presentation from Shelia Melton, which provides a good overview of traditions, food and the history of Hanukkah; and a virtual field trip to Jerusalem from MagiCore, which includes lots of videos showing the city and activities like playing dreidel, drawing a menorah and making latkes. It’s a Google Drive folder and also includes writing activities and more for kids in second to fifth grade.

Kids Activities Blog has some simple printables with facts about Hanukkah and things kids can color in like a Star of David, sufganiyots (jelly doughnuts) and a menorah. These are great for learning the basics.

Homeschool Giveaways has a printable ebook about Hanukkah complete with questions kids can answer after they read. This would be a good one for older kids with good reading comprehension.

NurtureStore’s Hanukkah unit study includes a printable mini book, tons of crafts, as well as math and writing activities. I love the dominoes game that’s part of the unit.

And check out our previous posts for more Hanukkah crafts and learning activities!