DIY Pyramid Candles! – Craft Gossip

Candles can add a cozy and warm ambiance to any room in your home. While there are many types of candles available in the market, making your own candles can be a fun and rewarding experience. Anna-Rosa at My Lifebox recently shared her tutorial on how to make pyramid candles at home. The best part? You can create a DIY cardboard mold and make as many as you want.

The materials needed for this project include paraffin wax, wicks, a double boiler, a thermometer, and a cardboard box to create the mold. Anna-Rosa’s tutorial includes detailed instructions on how to create the pyramid mold using a cardboard box. Once you have the mold, you can start melting the wax in a double boiler, and then adding the color and fragrance of your choice. Be sure to keep an eye on the temperature with a thermometer to ensure that the wax doesn’t overheat or become too cool.

Once the wax is melted and the color and fragrance are added, pour the wax into the mold and add the wick in the center. Let the wax cool and harden for several hours, and then carefully remove the pyramid candle from the mold. You can then trim the wick and decorate the pyramid candle as you wish.

One of the great things about making your own candles is that you can customize them to fit any occasion or mood. For example, you could make pyramid candles in different colors to match your decor, or add essential oils to create a soothing scent for relaxation.

In addition to being a fun and creative project, making your own candles can also be a sustainable choice. By using reusable molds and natural ingredients, you can reduce waste and minimize your carbon footprint. Plus, making your own candles is often more cost-effective than buying them from a store.

If you’re new to candle making, pyramid candles can be a great place to start. They’re simple to make, but the unique shape makes them stand out from regular candles. Plus, they make great gifts for friends and family.

Making your own candles is a great way to express your creativity and add a personal touch to your home decor. With Anna-Rosa’s tutorial on how to make pyramid candles, you’ll have a fun and rewarding project to try out at home.

Anna-Rosa at My Lifebox made these awesome pyramid candles at home! Using a DIY cardboard mold and a little patience, you can too – see how!

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I hope if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere that it’s getting warm enough where you live to add in some outdoor activities with the kids. It’s easy to do a lot of learning outside when the weather is nice; my daughter has a fond memory of doing long division in sidewalk chalk at her school. But if you need some more specific ideas, here are some fun and educational spring outdoor activities for kids to do at home or at school.

Gather some glass bottles, rocks and other natural materials to make a garden xylophone with these instructions from The Moments at Home. This looks so fun, and you can use this idea to make musical instruments with other objects you find around the home/classroom/playground too.

This post from Child’s Play ABC has a lot of great outdoor learning ideas for kids, but the one I wanted to highlight is going on a rainbow scavenger hunt. Kids can collect things of different colors and see if they can make a rainbow (or just sort things by color). Check out more ideas for scavenger hunts.

Another good activity to do with things you collect from outdoors is making natural paint brushes. Get the instructions from Messy Little Monster, and of course you can test them out by painting outside, too.

Speaking of art, have you ever made paint from dandelions? (I dyed yarn with dandelions once, and it was a lot of fun.) Learn how from Little Cooks Reading Books, and then you can use your natural paintbrushes along with natural paint!

You can also paint with mud, like in this post from There’s Just One Mommy. Or make an outdoor, garden themed sensory bin with real dirt like this one from Mess for Less.

Or kids can gather materials to help them build their own nests as they learn about how birds and other animals build nests. The Crazy Outdoor Mama has a printable and post that will help.

What activities do you love to do with kids when it’s nice outside?

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