Round Up of Father’s Day Candle Projects

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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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.

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