Candles for bonfire night...

In keeping with our seasonal theme after the monster making Halloween workshop, we got making some candles on Saturday before we all headed out to see the fireworks.


We were creating cup-cake candles and teacup or container candles using two different kinds of wax and lots of interesting scent too. The chocolate candle scent made us all very hungry!

And you really do make the cup-cake candles like the real thing...well almost. You start off with a base cake and then have a whole lot of fun icing it with fluffed up wax 'frosting'. It's a very strange thing to whisk up the wax with a food mixer, but it really does become like proper icing. We did two batches, some white and some pink. And then went a bit wild with the glitter!

While waiting for the wax to cool on the cupcakes we started to melt the soy wax to fill our teacups. The all very important heat gun used to keep the wax nice and runny as it is poured from the metal jug and the thermometer is another super important instrument for monitoring the wax temperature. 

And here is the final result, with the wax nicely poured and cooling down, the chopsticks come in handy to help center the wick so there is no wonky burning candles once they are taken home.

So...anyone for a cup of tea and a fairy cake then?