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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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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.