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DIY Christmas Candles 2 Different Ways

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The holiday season is a time of warmth, joy, and coziness, and nothing sets the mood better than a beautifully scented candle. Whether you’re looking to create a festive ambiance in your home or searching for the perfect holiday gift, candles are a versatile and beloved option. However, Christmas candles don’t need to be drastically different from other candles; it’s all about incorporating seasonal decorations and fragrances. With the right scents and decorations, you can create a candle that perfectly captures the essence of the holiday season.

This video tutorial provides you with two different ways to make your own Christmas candles. The first method is the bowl style, which is currently very popular and is perfect for gift-giving. With this technique, you can customize your candles to match your personal style and the recipient’s preferences. A second method is a traditional approach that involves creating a candle from scratch, with wax and wick. Both methods are easy to follow and require only a few supplies, making them accessible to even the most novice candle-makers.

By making your own Christmas candles, you can infuse your home with the scents of the season, such as cinnamon, peppermint, and vanilla. You can also experiment with different decorations, like dried cranberries, pinecones, and holly leaves, to create a festive and visually stunning candle.

Christmas candles don’t really need to be any different than normal candles,it comes down to using seasonal decorations and of course seasonal fragrant scents.

This video tutorial shows you to different ways to make candles, the bowl style is very popular right now, and perfect for gift-giving.

 

 

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There are so many fun things to do with fall leaves, which is a good thing because they are everywhere. We have more than a dozen trees in our yard so I would always try to do some leaf crafts when my daughter was younger. We made rubbings and preserved leaves and did a ton of jumping in leaf piles, but if you’re looking for more activities to do with leaves, read on.

If you have a lot of different kinds of trees in your yard, on the playground or at the park, you can make leaf mandalas like these from Red Ted Art. They’re inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, who makes temporary art with natural materials (learn more about him at the link).

Leaves are art all by themselves, but you can make them an even lovelier display by combining leaves with other natural materials in a collage. Or make a little natural weaving loom like this one from Woodlark to hold a bunch of leaves and other fall pretties in a way that can continuously be changed.

Another way to turn leaves into art is by using markers or pens to trace the veins on a leaf. This idea is from Go Science Kids, and it’s a simple thing that makes really pretty leaves to display while also giving you can chance to talk about why leaves have veins and what is happening when leaves change colors.

Kids Craft Room has a great idea for making leaf luminaries, which would be fun to decorate the table from now through Thanksgiving. The best thing about these is that you don’t have to use any glue, so it’s easy for kids to make (with some supervision since cutting is involved).

This one does use glue, but it’s so cute it’s probably worth the potential mess. Our Kid Things shows you how to make an adorable hedgehog with fall leaves using their printable template and a paper plate.

I also love this fall in a bottle project from The Crazy Outdoor Mama. It’s like a snow globe with leaves and has the added cuteness of a kid’s photo inside. This would be a fun one to make at school to give to parents or grandparents, and it’s so easy and cute!