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DIY Candle Making Tutorials

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Not all candles are the same and neither are their DIY tutorials. This roundup features DIY Candle making tutorials to help get you started in candle making and to inspire those who have been making their own candles for years. We have included a variety of different candles from soy wax to beeswax and paraffin. See all the tutorials by clicking each candle tutorial below.

You can buy ready-made beeswax sheets for making rolled candles here and check out our youtube video.

Easy DIY Pineapple Candles – Happiness is Homemade

DIY Lavender Teacup Candle – A Cultivated Nest

How to Make Citronella Candles – Marty’s Musings

How to Make Your Own DIY Candles – Making It in the Mountains

Cafe Latte Candle – Craftbits

DIY Scentsy Candle – Twin Dragonfly Designs

Easy DIY Beeswax Candles – Live Simply

How to Make Miniature Ice Candles – Suzy’s Sitcom

DIY Cinnamon Candles – My Crazy Good Life

How to Make Soy Wax Candles with Essential Oils – Swoon Worthy

Cookie Cutter Floating Candles – Craftbits

DIY French Lavender Soy Candle – Over the Big Moon

Make Your Own Blueberry Basil Lemonade Citronella Mason Jar Candles – Arts & Crackers

DIY Mason Jar Apple Pie Candle – My Life from Home

Easy DIY Margarita Scented Candles – Shaken Together

The Mess-Free, Super Easy Way to Make Homemade Candles – Live Simply

DIY Homemade Candle – Life is Sweeter by Design

How to Make Essential Oil Candles – Eat Sleep Be

How to Make a Citrus Floating Candle – DIY Inspired

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Shark Week Learning for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks. 

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game. 

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom. 

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more. 

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet. 

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.