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Round Up of Father’s Day Candle Projects

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If you’re looking for some quick and unique candle projects for Father’s Day, check out these tutorials I found at various craft blogs.

Spindle Candlesticks

Gail from My Repurposed Life creates treasures from trash like these colorful spindle candlesticks.

I know my dad would have loved these because he was always creating cool things from wood. If you wanted to make them more funky, you could add stripes or sparkles. See the spindle candlesticks tutorial for more.

Fire Starters

If you have a rugged outdoorsy type of dad, he may appreciate a few pine cone fire starters to take camping or hiking.

See Suzy’s Artsy Craftsy Sitcom for a tutorial on a pine cone fire starter gift basket.  For another option, see my egg carton fire starters.

Transfer Candles

Gail from Can’t Stop Making Things came up with this awesome music note candle after admiring a similar one in Pottery Barn’s catalog.

This would be perfect for a music loving dad on Father’s Day.  See PB Knock Off Candles for more.  For other candle transfer project ideas, try Stamping on Candles or Fingerprint Candles.

Jeweled Baby Food Jar Votive Holder

Finally, Kaboose shares this easy kid friendly candle project for Father’s Day.  To personalize this votive holder further, you could use uniquely shaped buttons that reflect your dad’s personality. See Easy Jeweled Votive Candleholder for the tutorial.

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Book Review: Off to the Nursery

One of the best things about the return of warmer weather is getting to plant new flowers and starting the vegetable garden if you have one. Off to the Nursery by Alice Oehr is subtitled “a celebration of gardening, plants and seasons,” and it’s also a celebration of diversity (because gardening is for everyone) and caring for the earth.

The book starts with the work of getting the garden ready for spring, pulling out the old plants and spreading compost made from kitchen scraps. They grab tomatoes and peppers, learn about zucchini and eggplant and explore the tasty world of herbs.

They also look through the seeds, succulents, berries and fruit trees, flowers and aquatic plants, talking about the benefits of different plants and how fun they are to grow. Maybe you can relate to the family buying what seems like way too many plants?

The book was originally published in Australia, so some of the flowers mentioned might not be familiar to your or your kids, but that’s kind of fun, too. You can also use this as an opportunity to talk about which plants in the book can grow where you live and that just like animals, plants have preferred habitats, too.

Illustrations are colorful and the book combines a standard font and a hand written font to make it feel more like a journal about the garden. The illustrations include fun facts and growing tips such as always planting mint in a pot or germinating seeds on a wet paper towel before planting.

If you want to introduce kids to gardening or just talk about what kind of plants can be grown at home where you live (yes to tomatoes, probably no to the kumquat tree), this cute book is a great addition to your spring reading list.

About the book: 30 pages, hardcover. Published 2025 by Scribble US. Suggested retail price $18.95.