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DIY Pyramid Candles!

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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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Book Review: The No-Brainer Brain Explainer

Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.” 

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles. 

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies. 

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans. 

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain. 

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal. 

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.