In today's craft we are going to make a nice rustic orange candle to decorate our rooms, enjoy its aroma or give as gifts.
Do you want to see how to do it?
Materials that we will need to make our rustic orange candle
- Una orange
- Candles white and orange tones. About 3 or 4 large. It can be added to melt, confirm the mold is filled until the desired height is reached.
- Milk box empty to use as a mold
- Glass jar
- Rope or twine to decorate
- Pot and water
- Chopsticks
- Clothes pegs
Hands on craft
- We cut a large half orange into slices. Squeeze the other half and cut it in half moons creating different shapes. We put on a tray in the oven at 200 °, We will monitor it so that they do not burn but remain dehydrated. We remove from the oven and let it cool.
- We put a pot of water to boil.
- We cut the milk carton and clean the inside well.
- We cut the candles and we add a lot of white by small pieces of orange. We put the pieces in the glass jar in a bain-marie. We will pour the wax into the mold little by little adding more white and orange wax, thus creating different shades on the candle.
- In the carton we put a slice on the base on which we will put the candle wick soaked in wax to stick.
- We hold the wick with some chopsticks and we will pour a little wax to cover the slice.
- We put an orange slice in which each wall of the mold. If they do not hold well, you can put a clothespin.
- We will add the wax little by little and between layer and layer of wax we will put the orange pieces that we have left, chopping them if necessary.
- When we finish covering the orange slices completely or almost, let them dry well and tear the cardboard to remove the candle.
- We scrape the candle so that the oranges show more and we cut the orange slices that can stand out and we put some decorative strings.
And ready
I hope you cheer up and do this craft.