Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Craftiness: Make a Candle-Holder

Here is another simple craft to do with the kids:  make a candle-holder.  You will need: a glass jar, tissue paper (cut into approximately 1 inch squares), Elmer's glue (school glue), water, a paint brush, and a small tea-light candle.  Give your child a jar and a bunch of the paper squares.  Dump about 2 tablespoons or so of glue onto a plate and mix in about 3 teaspoons of water, stirring the mixture up with your paint brush.  Add water until until the mixture has thinned out to about the consistency of poster paint.  Brush a layer of the glue-water mixture onto a small portion of the jar, and let your child stick the tissue paper square onto the glue.  Repeat this until the whole jar is covered with a layer of the glue and tissue paper.  Finally, you will brush another layer of glue over all of the tissue paper.  Set the jars in a safe area so they can dry (ours took a few hours).  Once dry, insert a tea-light and enjoy! 

Gluing on the tissue paper.

Showing off his work!

All covered in tissue paper.

Letting the jar dry.  This is an old spaghetti sauce jar.

The finished product!

Be sure to set your candles in a safe place, away from little hands.  Also, remember school glue rinses off in water, so keep your finished jars dry.  For a more permanent application something like modge-podge would need to be used in place of the glue.  Merry Christmas and happy crafting!

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