Candle Making

These creative candle crafts fit the bill - whether you want candles for romantic ambience, healing aromatherapy, or a loving and personal homemade gift.

If you're new to candle making, you'll find easy candle crafts here, including how to make candles from recycled materials, how to personalize purchased candles, plus inexpensive ways to use candles in any room decor.

Candle Crafts

Click on the easy Candle Crafts menu for thumbnail photos and links to candle craft projects in each category.

How to Make Romantic Candles and Candle Lamps

Making candles that look and feel like old-fashioned lamps; candles with romantic ambience.

Canning Jar Wedding Candles Easy canning jar candles for wedding or anniversary decorating.	Highball Hurricane Candles Vellum covered wedding candles and highball hurricanes.	Ivy Bowl Candle Lamp Make a potpourri candle lamp and fill your home with mellow light and floral fragrance.
Wedding Favor Candles Unique ideas for wedding candle favors.	Rhinestone Studded Heart Candle Personalize a pillar candle with rhinestone studded hearts.	Decoupage Candle Holders Decoupage candle holders in the motif of your choice.
Rose Pot Candle Holder A terra cotta candle holder with elegant simplicity.	Lace Candle Holders Dress up glass candle holders with pretty lace.	Wine Bottle Drip Candles Remember romantic occasions with a wine bottle drip candle.

How to Make Gel Candles, Beeswax Candles and Nautical Candles

Photos and instructions to make gel candles; beer candles; beeswax candles and nautical candles.

Beer Candles
How to make beer or ice cream soda candles.

Wine Glass Gel Candles
Gel candles in wine or champagne glasses.

Seascape Gel Candles
Learn how to make your own gel seascape candles.

Fishbowl Sea Candle
Nice gift for Dad!

Beeswax Candles
How to roll beeswax candles from beeswax sheets.

Recycled Candles

How to recycle tin cans, jars, bottles, candle stubs, crayons and wax to make new candles and candle holders.

Sunflower Jar Paint a recycled glass jar with a sunflower; top with a votive candle.	Alphabet Block Candle Holders Revamp alphabet blocks to make celestial moon and stars candle holders.	Ribbon Spool Candles Recycle your ribbon spools to make pretty candle holders.	Pop Bottle Candle Holders Turn soda pop bottles into pretty candle holders.
Jewelled Candle Holders Tin cans become bejewelled candleholders.	Spindle Candle Holder Recycle wooden spindle legs into unique candle holders.	Chunk Candles Recycle chunks of old candles to make a unique new candle.	Recycled Fire Starters Make wax fire starters from recycled candles.
Hanging Jar Lantern Recycle old jars to make hanging candle lanterns.	Refillable Candles How to refill your glass candle containers.	Cookie Cutter Candles Recycle candle stubs, and mold them with cookie cutters into floating candles.	Faux Oil Lamp Spray paint objects found around the home to make this faux oil lamp.

Seasonal Candles and Candle Holders

Changing the look of your candles to suit the seasons.

Decoupage Halloween Candle Decoupage a candle with seasonal paper napkins.	Halloween Horse Pumpkin Illuminate a horse silhouette with this pumpkin carving pattern.	Confetti Candle Use confetti to decorate a candle with seasonal motifs.	Red Bowl Candle Valentine's Day or Mother's Day candle project.
Valentine Candy Candle Ivy bowl Valentine's Day candle.	Candy Candles Holiday candle is super easy to make; good gift for the teacher or babysitter.	Snowman in a Pot Candle Holder Christmas candle holder idea.	Sea Shell Tea Candles Seashells become unique tea candles in this free candle project.
Pumpkin Tea Lights Painted pumpkin tea lights.	Eggshell Candles Ultra simple, decorative eggshell candles for Easter or birthdays.	Angelic Candle Holder Make an angel to hold your tea candles at Christmas.