The harmony of this world largely depends on the well-known elements: water, flame, air and earth. Each element has its own strength and energy, and each of them is vital for man. The author of this idea tells how you can combine seemingly two incompatible elements - ice and fire. As a result, you will get an unusually beautiful openwork candle which can get quite an original gift or wonderful decoration any festive table.
First, prepare everything necessary tools and materials:
1. Paraffin household white candles - 4 pieces.
2. Colored wax crayons.
3. Ice cubes.
4. Small knife.
5. Wooden skewer or stick for hanging paraffin.
6. Dishes for a water bath. You will need two saucepans or bowls different diameters. Use dishes that you will not use later for cooking.
7. Candle mold. IN in this case The author uses the most ordinary plastic cup.
8. Potholder.
9. A small terry towel.
10. Old oilcloth (if available).
1 step.
First, we cover the working surface of the table with old oilcloth, since in the process paraffin may drip onto the surface of the table. Then we take an ordinary household paraffin candle and cut off a piece from it that is equal in height to the previously prepared form. To do this, cut the candle from the top edge, where the wick sticks out. For now, put the cut piece of the candle aside.
Step 2.
Now carefully cut the remaining candles into pieces, while removing the wick.
Step 3.
Now pour water into a large saucepan and put it on the fire. When the water boils, reduce the heat to low. Pour paraffin pieces into another saucepan and place this saucepan in hot water, located in a larger saucepan. Paraffin begins to slowly melt in a water bath. Do not forget that paraffin is a flammable substance and certain safety precautions must be observed when working with it. Never melt paraffin on open fire or in microwave oven. Do not leave paraffin on the fire unattended and keep the pack open at hand baking soda. If paraffin catches fire, it should be extinguished with soda, not water.
Step 4
Now, using a knife, finely chop the colored wax crayon. The more chalk you add, the richer the color of your ice openwork candle.
Step 5
Now pour the crushed wax crayon into the melted paraffin, while constantly stirring the mixture with a wooden skewer.
Step 6
Now take the ice cubes out of the freezer. Pour ice onto half a towel, cover it with the other half and crush it. The size of the ice cubes determines what holes will be in your candle. The larger the pieces of ice, the correspondingly larger the holes. In order to get a delicate openwork pattern of thin lines, the ice needs to be thoroughly crushed.
Step 7
Then pour crushed ice into the mold and strictly in the middle insert the piece of candle with the wick cut off at the very beginning of the work.
Step 8
Carefully, using a pot holder, take a container with melted paraffin and wax crayon and carefully pour it into a mold filled with ice fragments. Fill the mold with paraffin to the brim.
Step 9
After the paraffin has completely hardened, remove the candle from the mold. In this case, the author simply cut a plastic glass and carefully took out the candle. This procedure must be done over a sink, since water from the melted ice will remain in the candle. If the wick is filled with paraffin, take a knitting needle with a pot holder, heat it over the fire and melt the paraffin a little in the place where the wick is located.
If the candle turns out to be unstable, then you can heat an old frying pan that you no longer need for culinary purposes and use it to level the bottom of the candle. Now let's leave the candle to dry thoroughly.
After all the water has completely dried, the candle is ready. The author recommends lighting it in a wide candlestick, as hot paraffin will ooze from the holes. You can experiment with colors, shapes, and sizes of ice chips.
You were able to combine two elements and at the same time you got an unusually beautiful openwork candle. A candle is a symbol of the family hearth and will definitely bring warmth, comfort and love to your home. Thanks to the author for the idea and advice.
Bright flickering candle lights create a magical atmosphere and help you transport yourself to a winter fairy tale. And candlesticks made by yourself exude warmth and comfort. Here we have collected a few interesting ideas their manufacture.
Candlesticks in the Provence style look unusual. They can be easily made from glass cups and natural materials: pine cones, cinnamon and birch bark. When a candle burns, cinnamon will emit a subtle aroma, filling the house with warmth and comfort.
Find a few cones and decorate glass jars with them and place candles inside. After sprinkling with glue, sprinkle all this magic with artificial snow.
The photo below shows a master class on making a candlestick decorated with nuts. On the base ring using glue gun nuts and small Christmas balls are glued on. In this case, it is necessary to leave space for candles. The product is coated with silver paint.
The birch bark decor looks very unusual.
If you have paints for painting on glass, then by decorating a small glass jar with them, you will get a magical candlestick that will not hide the flickering of the candle.
Children will like New Year's candlesticks in the form. Let little artists decorate the cookies themselves. This decor will become real.
Another option is to knit a New Year's outfit for glass jars.
If you fill a small jar with water and partially fill it with decorative elements, you will get something unusual and unusual.
Magical and very delicate candlesticks can be made from lace.
You will need:
- inflatable ball,
- glue;
- lace.
Inflate the balloon, cover half of it with lace and leave to dry. When the fabric has hardened, pierce the ball with a needle or simply lower it, the lace will retain its shape. Be careful when placing the candle inside so that the flame does not light the candlestick. From a safety point of view, a more acceptable option is to cover a glass cup with lace.
The magical aroma of the holiday will spread throughout the apartment if you place a lit candle inside an orange peel.
If you can find small logs, they also make great stands for playful lights.
By pasting the jars with colored paper you will get candlesticks that give different shades glow.
Use any materials - pine needles, wood, fabric, paper! Experiment, create and may the New Year be joyful!
Today we invite you to make original New Year's candlesticks with your own hands. We have collected many photos and detailed instructions for each variant of decorative candlestick on New Year. All candlestick crafts are divided into groups according to the materials from which they are made. Here you will find master classes for each group.
In this article you will learn how to do:
- Decorative candlesticks-crafts in the form of angels.
- New Year's candlestick made from roll sleeves from toilet paper.
- Candlesticks with perforation and carvings on paper and cardboard.
- Lacy candlesticks for the New Year using the quilling technique.
- Crocheted candlesticks.
- New Year's candlesticks made of natural materials.
- New Year's candlesticks from a plastic bottle.
- Candlesticks made from citrus peels.
- Candlesticks made of sweets.
- Candlesticks made from tall wine glasses and glasses.
- Candlestick jars with decorative painting and applique.
- Candlesticks with floating New Year's candles.
- Compositions with candles for the New Year.
As you can see, we decided to complete this article with candlestick crafts for every taste – children’s and adults. Therefore, you can find here options for crafts for children and ideas for serious adult gifts-candlesticks for the New Year.
Candlestick made from bushingsfrom toilet paper
Here is our first chic New Year's candlestick, made in the shape of a star. It seems like it's something factory-made, bought in a store. But in fact, you can do this yourself at home with your children. This star candlestick is made from cardboard rolled into rolls. That is, we need to roll rolls from cardboard (or take ready-made toilet paper rolls). We will need 7 rolls and one paper round (a disposable paper plate will do).
HOW TO MAKE THIS STAR CANDLESTICK with your own hands:
STEP 1 - Each star ray is a roll that needs to be flattened from TOP-DOWN at one end, and LEFT-to-RIGHT at the other end. We fix the flattening area with a stapler or glue. As a result, we get a volumetric ray of the future star. We make 6 such rays.
STEP 2 – Take a circle of paper (or paper plate), the diameter of the round should be such that all the rays of the star fit in a circle. We place them with the flat, flattened side on the edge of the round (plate). Glue all the rays onto the edge of the plate.
STEP 3 - Now we take the 7th roll of cardboard and it must be glued to the center of the plate. To make it stick, cut the desired end of the roll into a short and wide fringe - move the rays of the fringe to the sides (into a sun-like spread) - and glue this spread to the center of the paper round with glue.
STEP 4 - Take a can of gold paint (or gold acrylic paint in a jar) and cover the entire surface of the craft with gold. You can buy paint at a car dealership or in the construction department of the market (costs 3-5 dollars). Acrylic gold paint in a jar costs 3-4 dollars.
And if you want to get blurs, smudges and frozen drops on the surface of the craft, the same as in the photo, then before painting you need to apply hot glue from a glue gun to the craft and let it randomly cover the surface of the cardboard elements of the candlestick with zigzags and blots. And after hardening, paint it. In the absence of hot glue, you can try the usual silicate stationery glue-snot from our Soviet childhood - it is also thick and also hardens in shiny, voluminous droplets (you will just have to wait a little longer for drying).
STEP 5 - Next - we stuff the newspaper inside the central roll - so that it is not empty - but we don’t stuff it all the way to the edges, but leave a recess into which the candle-tablet will fit. And then we put a TABLET CANDLE on this compacted newspaper inside the roll.
STEP 6 - And all that remains is decorate the rest of the surface of the round (plate) pine cones, balls, beads, shiny garland and other New Year's tinsel.
As you can see simple photography– if you look at her carefully, she will tell you how to do the same with your own hands.
New Year's candlesticks ANGELS
We make these angels from plain white paper. And then we cover the entire craft with gold spray paint. Spray paint cans are sold at any hardware store or automotive supply store - they are not very expensive (about 3-5 dollars).
You and your children can make this angel craft. From a paper cone. To prevent the craft from catching fire from the candle flame, we will make this lamp without a live fire, and place an ordinary New Year's glowing garland inside the cone. This will make a children's gift-candlestick for a grandfather or grandmother - they will be happy to light it in the evenings on New Year's days for many years.
Paper candlesticks WITH SLOTS
You can make an elegant New Year's candlestick from an ordinary sheet of paper rolled into a tube. The paper will not catch fire because the hot air from the candle freely escapes into the socket of such a paper lampshade-candlestick.
And if you are afraid for fire safety, then you can place a tall glass glass inside such a paper roll and lower a candle into it.
By the way, to light a low candle-tablet AT THE BOTTOM OF A TALL glass you can use regular spaghetti pasta. They are long and burn well - we light such a spaghetti torch and calmly lower it to the candle wick at the bottom of the candlestick. Very comfortably.
Below you will find a master class that shows step by step the process of making such candlesticks with slots - just in the New Year theme: with Christmas trees and stars.
First, cut a piece of paper- with a height equal to the height of the glass, and with a width sufficient to encircle the circumference of the glass and overlap the edges for gluing.
On a sheet of paper we draw the lines of the boundaries of the axial rod of the drawing. At the same distance from each other.
On both sides of the drawn borders we draw the outlines of Christmas trees and stars.
We make cuts along the drawn Christmas trees, but do not reach the center lines of the borders with scissors.
Paper candlesticksWITH PERFORATION
You can make punctures rather than slits on the same roll of paper. Such perforation can be filled with a regular nail - if you place a sheet of paper on a semi-hard surface (for example, a sheet of foam plastic) and simply drive the nail in with a hammer at the points drawn in advance. This is how a candlestick with a snowflake in the photo below was made with your own hands.
You can wrap the glass so that puncture marks are not visible from the outside. And make sure that the perforation has holes different sizes. To do this, we take nails of different cross-sectional diameters. With thick nails we will get large holes, smaller thin ones.
The main thing is to think in advance and draw with a pencil our pattern of large and small dots on the future New Year's lamp.
And you don’t have to make just a pattern of snowflakes. You can use the same principle to pin the silhouette of a Christmas tree, deer, snowman, Santa Claus and other New Year's characters.
You can fold a sheet of paper not into a round roll, but into a tetrahedral socket. And decorate each of the four edges with the same white New Year's appliqué.
The back side of each hole must be sealed with tissue paper (translucent tracing paper, or oiled white paper) - that is, the material that will transmit light. Very beautiful and delicate lamps for the New Year.
To prevent such a craft from igniting from a candle flame, the top must be left without a roof. Or, instead of a candle, put an LED Christmas tree garland inside. You will get a beautiful candlestick-gift - both a garland and a lampshade with delicate paper carvings.
You can cut paper blanks in the shape of a house. In the same way, use tracing paper or oiled paper to seal the openings of the cut out windows and doors of the houses.
New Year's candlesticksIN QUILING TECHNIQUE
You can make candlesticks from paper twists made using the quilling technique. Let's look at how to make such a candlestick with your own hands - using the example of a blue New Year's candlestick from the photo below.
STEP 1- To do this, colored double-sided paper is cut into narrow strips. Each strip is wound around a rod (or toothpick). You can also use special paper for quilling; it is sold in special stores. handicraft departments, this paper curls better and holds its shape.
Then this twist is removed from the toothpick and placed inside a round stencil-hole on a geometric ruler - and within the boundaries of this stencil the twist is allowed to unwind - to the size of the stencil hole.
STEP 2- Next, take the twist out of the stencil and glue its tail to the twist barrel. We make a lot of such modules - two sizes larger and smaller (that is, we adjust some to fit small hole stencil, and others for a large stencil hole on a regular geometric ruler).
STEP 4- And now we make up and glue the candlestick - we take a round candle tablet and glue small round twists onto its side. Next, around this first round dance of round modules we place teardrop-shaped large twists - so that they are light in pairs, forming a heart shape.
You can give this New Year's quilling candlestick a shape with sides. If you place the modules on a small paper plate with raised edges, or a jar lid.
From quilling twist modules you can come up with any designs for New Year's candlesticks. In the form of a snowflake, a New Year's Christmas wreath.
You can also use an ordinary three-dimensional paper snowflake as a simple candlestick with your own hands. Cut out and place under a tablet candle.
Candlesticks for the New Year,crocheted
Here's a way to create a candle holder for those who know how to crochet. To do this, you can take any pattern of a knitted snowflake or a knitted star.
Use one or more of the patterns below to knit a wonderful snowflake candlestick:
Another option to decorate a candlestick with knitting is to make “Clothes” for candles. By the way, you don’t have to knit it, but use, for example, an old sweater.
New Year's candlesticks made from natural materials
Use shells, cinnamon sticks, nuts, coffee beans, tree branches, pebbles, dry moss, pine cones to create original New Year's candlesticks:
These apples with candles on the New Year's table will look especially charming:
Candlestick made from a plastic bottle
And the most free material for a New Year's candlestick is the usual plastic bottle. We throw them away anyway, so why not turn them into Christmas lights? 
Progress:
1. Cut off the straight central part of the bottle.
2. Cut pointed petals from one side of the pipe. And bend them to the sides.
3. Paint the lamp a light golden color.
4. Apply star stickers.
5. Spread the edges of the petals with glue and sprinkle with silver sprinkles - you can do it yourself if you finely trim the shiny pile from a fluffy Christmas tree garland, or cut a Christmas tree rain.
You can come up with your own candlesticks from a bottle - any shape and complement them with any border decor - bright ribbon, snowflakes, colored glass pebbles, etc.
And if you use mini-yogurt bottles, you can make these stylish candlesticks:
New Year's candlestick made of citrus peels
Oranges and cloves will fill your home with a fresh and spicy aroma, and this combination of orange and brown looks very beautiful. You can simply decorate the oranges with clove stars that can be easily stuck into the skin. Or you can make candlesticks, like in the bottom photo. They are not difficult to make - first you need to cut the orange peel in half and carefully remove both halves with a spoon.
Another option for a candlestick made from orange peel. You need to cut off the top of the fruit and carefully scoop out the pulp with a teaspoon. Then fill the resulting bowl with any bulk material(any cereal will do) so that you can put a candle, and the orange can easily stand.
Candlesticks made of sweets
You will be surprised, but traditional Christmas sweets are perfect for decorating New Year's candles:
Warm up the sides of the candle a little and stick candy canes with a New Year's ornament on the sides along the entire perimeter, or collect decor for a candle from candy canes and secure with a festive ribbon.
New Year's candle holder made from a glass jar
The simplest candlestick from a jar is made quickly and easily with your own hands. From masking tape (which we use to cover windows for the winter), cut out a silhouette, such as a star. Stick it on the side of the jar, and paint the rest of the surface of the jar with gouache (white is best). To prevent the gouache from sticking to your hands after drying and staining your clothes, spray the top of the painted jar with hairspray. Next, remove our star sticker from the masking tape and get a finished New Year’s candlestick made by yourself.
The silhouette sticker can be anything perfect - a snowman, a penguin, a snowflake, or a deer with branchy antlers.
You can also decorate the border of our design with sprinkles; to do this, apply glue along the edge of the silhouette and sprinkle shiny sprinkles on top of it (I described what to make it from in the previous candlestick).
For the pleasure of your child, make such a bright and simple candlestick with him using the same principle:
Or let your child make this simple design on frosted jars using toothpaste and cotton swabs:
You can buy gold-colored acrylic paint at the stationery store and use this brush to outline the edge of the silhouette-hole on the candlestick. And even make some kind of festive inscription on the silhouette itself. It turns out to be a bright jar-candle holder - and by the way, you can pour white beans into its bottom and drown the candle in it.
You can implement the principle of a silhouette hole on a candlestick jar not with paint - but with paper. That is, cut out the desired picture on a strip of paper in advance and wrap the candlestick jar with such paper. As in the photo with the New Year's craft below.
You can cover the entire surface of the jar with green pieces of napkin (buy green paper napkins, or green crepe paper) it is thin and fits well the smooth curves of the can.
Simply use glue - PVA glue - and it’s better to buy not a small tube at the stationery store, but go to hardware store and buy a half-liter jar of PVA right away - you will get 4 times cheaper. It lasts a long time and is always fresh, but in jars it constantly dries out.
So... we cover the jar with PVA glue and put chopped pieces of green paper on top of it - due to the fact that the pieces will be layered on top of each other, we will get such a chipped polygonal green pattern. And then, to give all this green chaos a New Year’s recognition, we’ll simply paint here and there (or add red paper) circles of holly berries.
The same red balls of berries will decorate our next New Year's candlestick. Here we cover all the walls of the jar with snow. We make it from ordinary salt or sugar (or from finely grated polystyrene foam).
Cover the sides of the jar with glue and roll them in white sprinkles on the table. When drying, we decorate with a string, under which a green twig (for example, a spruce foot) or a green string of textile ribbon is inserted. And in the middle we attach a bunch of berries. These can be beads strung on wire and painted with red gouache (or nail polish). You can mold beads from plasticine and cover them with nail polish for shine and color. Or you can take large foam balls.
By the way, even if you just pour coarse salt into a jar and put a tablet candle in it, you will get a very charming New Year’s candlestick:
If you know how to knit, we suggest making such an openwork napkin decoration for a candle holder jar. Looks very festive and elegant:
If you are good at drawing, you can simply draw a New Year's design on your side glass jar and you will get an elegant candlestick. You can put not a candle inside the jar, but a New Year's LED garland- and then the jar will sparkle with several lights at once.
You can also simply APPLY a silhouette in a New Year’s theme to the surface of the jar - like a decorative applique decoration. This applique can be easily and quickly made at home - find suitable pictures on the Internet and cut out the desired silhouettes from colored paper.
you also can copy directly from this screen silhouette of a deer. Simply place a sheet of paper on the screen and use a pencil to trace the image that is visible on the sheet. To reduce or enlarge the image on the screen, simply roll the mouse wheel forward or backward, holding the cropCtrl on your keyboard.
Multi-layered applications on a glass candlestick look beautiful.
You can come up with a silhouette applique that will encircle the entire jar along its circumference.
Small details of the applique do not need to be cut out of paper, but can be completed with a black marker. The candlestick jar itself can be painted in Blue colour(with a foam sponge and blue gouache mixed with white).
Silhouettes can be cut out of white paper. The result is a light and delicate decorative candlestick made from a tall glass.
Decorations made from burlap or other bright scraps of fabric also look very nice on candlestick jars.
New Year's candlesticks FROM GLASSES
They also make excellent candlesticks for the New Year. There is a separate article dedicated to this on our website, but we will list the most interesting options here.
The glass container itself can be decorated inside with branches of evergreen shrubs (for example fir). Instead of candles, you can put inside tall large glasses-vases New Year's garland with LED flashlights and mix the garland with Christmas tree decorations, pine cones, and bugle beads.
The ideal candle holders for low tablet candles and thick barrel candles are INVERTED GLASSES. Their flat base The legs serve as a convenient stand for stable candles.
Place under the dome of an inverted glass new Year decoration– these could be sprigs of holly, silver cones, paws of pine needles or multi-colored bugle beads.
Small decor does not need to be painstakingly slipped under the glass - just pour the glass into the bowl, cover it with cardboard, turn the glass upside down with the bowl and remove the cardboard from under it.
The stem of the glass, like the metal walls of tablet candles, can be silvered or gilded with sprinkles. This is easy to do at home - spread it with glue and sprinkle it with glitter (if you use PVA glue, then it can be easily washed off hot water). Or use hairspray - quickly spray and quickly sprinkle with glitter, sprinkle on top again.
You can buy ready-made glitter for sprinkling on your nails or cut the fringe of a shiny fluffy Christmas tree garland into small pieces yourself.
The sides of the candles can also be decorated with glitter sprinkles. To do this, pour the sprinkles onto paper. We heat the sides of the candle over a gas burner and quickly roll the candle, softened from the heat, over the glitter filling - the soft sticky wax absorbs the sparkles, and the candle becomes elegant and New Year's.
It is better to match the color of the sparkles for the candle to the color of the decorations under the dome of the glass (as in the photo below).
You can arrange a real piece under the dome of the glass New Year's fairy tale(as in the photo with candlesticks below). It’s easy to do it yourself – just a round piece white cardboard(or polystyrene foam), glue on a Christmas tree craft (purchased or made from paper or plasticine) - next to it we place a snowman or a figurine of another New Year’s character. Pour glue and sprinkle with white salt to imitate snow. Cover this round craft with an inverted glass. It turns out to be a magical New Year's candlestick.
Can New Year's glasses-candlesticks paint in winter shades paint and decorate with cones and snowflakes (paper or purchased).
To paint a glass at home as evenly as in the photo with candlesticks below, you need to use not a brush, but a foam sponge with small pores (preferably a sponge for applying foundation). With such a sponge you can convey a uniform flow of color from light to dark.
You can paint any New Year's character on the glass with paints - and we will get bright candlesticks in the form of snowmen, or Santa Clauses, or deer.
Or you don’t have to turn the glasses over. And lower tablet candles into them on special brackets.
You can twist such staples yourself at home from flexible copper or aluminum wire. This kind of DIY work is exactly what is shown in the photo below.
You can hang a tablet candle on brackets inside a very tall vessel - and then the bottom of the vessel can become a place for a decorative composition (as in the photo of the New Year's candlestick below).
New Year's candlesticks WITH FLOATING CANDLES
Also, candles can not be hung inside the container, but lowered into the water. To do this, the shape of the candles should be cone-shaped or rounded at the bottom. This way they will float calmly on the water.
Such floating candles can be found on sale and purchased. Or do it yourself - break the candle, remove the wick thread from it. Place the pieces of wax in a saucepan over low heat (or in a water bath) and melt the wax until liquid. Place the wick into a mold with a round or cone-shaped bottom - fill the wick with liquid wax - cool until the wax completely hardens in the mold. Remove the candle from the mold, slightly heating the walls of the mold.
Or you don’t have to bother with liquid wax. And immediately cut out a conical bottom from a solid thick candle with an ordinary knife (work as a sculptor).
New Year's compositions with candles
You can use a wide stand – a dish or a vase – as a candlestick and place several candles on such a candlestick at once, interspersing them with New Year’s decorations.
You can pour artificial snow or plain white salt, sugar, powder into the stand.
As a New Year's candle stand, you can use a regular low wooden box for seedlings. And decorate it natural material(moss, cones, spruce paws).
The body of the candlestick can become an ordinary wooden log. We drill large holes in it, where we insert tablet candles (or sections of thick candles).
You can also bake a candlestick from edible gingerbread honey dough. That is, bake a round gingerbread with holes for tablet candles. And to go with it, bake smaller gingerbread cookies with the shape of houses, Christmas trees, and trees. We decorate the gingerbread houses with a pattern of sugar icing and dry them. We also pour the large gingerbread candlestick with sweet sugar icing and place the gingerbread Christmas tree houses on the sticky icing.
Gingerbread dough is distinguished by the fact that it does not go stale for a long time, and such a sweet gift-candlestick can be devoured by the whole family after the New Year holidays have passed.
And finally, a few more ideas for New Year’s candlesticks:
These are the ideas with New Year's candlesticks you can now make with your own hands. It's nice when you can create a piece yourself New Year's holiday around you.
Connect the kids- they will be very pleased to help you in such a serious matter as the New Year. Children should create crafts with their own hands - this is a prerequisite for the development of a personality confident in their strengths and abilities. Children must have an EVIDENCE BASE of their omnipotence and success. Let the children see in practice that they CAN make such beautiful and complex crafts THEMSELVES. Let them grow up realizing themselves as CREATORS of this world. And then one day you will be able to be proud of their ADULT achievements.
Happy New Year to you. Let happiness enter your family. The magic of happiness made with your own hands. And let the light of the candles transmit its radiance to your eyes.
So autumn has come. As always, unexpected and unexpected. It's time for a cup of hot coffee, in terry socks, under a wool blanket by the fireplace. Or by candlelight in beautiful candlesticks. The flickering of a candle that shines with real fire will create an atmosphere of comfort and a romantic atmosphere in your home.
Today, a candlestick is not so much a functional as an aesthetic item in the design of space. Candle fire can make the atmosphere of any room more mysterious and exciting, but at the same time more calm and cozy. Even if the candle is not lit, an elegant candle holder will act as an excellent decor in your home.
Homemade candles and candlesticks not only please the eye, but also add coziness and warmth to the interior of the room. Making them is not at all difficult, and the result of the work can either be kept at home or given to someone close. We offer you several simple master classes on how to make candlesticks from jars with your own hands.
Such candlesticks would be appropriate:
- Inexpensive
The warm flickering of many candles in the garden will turn any ordinary evening at the dacha into a fabulous, cozy and romantic one. A minimum of materials, a little time and effort - and you can easily make garden lanterns - candlesticks with your own hands!
Beautiful, very cozy candlesticks for your home and garden can be made from small glass jars. You can put a finished candle in a jar candle holder, or you can pour wax into it. Everyone decides for themselves what type they need. How to do it?
Master class on a glass jar candle holder
You'll need:
- Pieces of wax.
- Saucepan.
- Wooden stick.
- Aroma oils.
- Dyes.
- Wick.
- Glass jar.
Step 1
To pour wax into a glass container, you must first prepare it. To do this, take a piece of material and cut it into small cubes. Place the crushed wax in a saucepan.
Melt the wax in a water bath
Step 2
Turn on kitchen stove and place a saucepan with water on the burner, and place a container of wax on top. Do water bath. Stir the wax with a wooden stick. Until it completely melts.
- Then turn off the stove and, without removing the saucepan with wax, add necessary supplements: aroma oils, dyes and more.
- Mix everything thoroughly with a wooden stick. The wax is ready.
Remember that it can harden very quickly. Therefore, immediately make a candle out of it.
Pour the wax into the jar, carefully holding the wick
Step 3
- Take a jar and attach the wick inside it. To do this, drop wax on one end of the cord or use a special tablet clamp and lower it to the bottom of the container using a straw (see photo).
- Secure the other end of the wick so that it does not fall inward. To do this, wrap it around a wooden skewer or make a special clamp.
Slowly, so that the wick does not move or fall, pour the liquid wax into the glass container.
Step 4
When the wax on top has hardened, you can remove the wick mount. If there is a hole in the candle, pour the remaining wax into it.
If you want a striped candle, pour in the wax, alternating colors and letting each row dry.
Striped or gradient candle in a jar
This candle also looks original in small flat jars
Candle with lavender
There are also many options for other candlesticks made from glass jars made by yourself.
Flashlights - Candlesticks can be hung on hooks, nailed to a fence, hung on a veranda, terrace or directly on tree branches. If there wooden frame or a pallet, make an entire garden chandelier out of candlesticks!
It is advisable to pour sand, grains or fine gravel into jars for candles to stabilize the candle inside
Hanging candlesticks for the garden
Detailed master class on how to do it - follow the link.
Harness pendants
Wicker pendants
Very simple, but quite elegant and interesting candlestick can be made from a half-liter jar.
- Any glass jar, such as a mayonnaise jar, will do.
- Remove the label, place fir branches inside the jar and sprinkle generously with coarse salt.
This is a winter version of a candlestick, and our tree seems to be covered with snow. We place a candle in the initiated snowdrift.
Winter candlestick
Glass decor cans painted using dot or stained glass techniques will turn the simplest bottle into an elegant vase or candlestick. In the photo below, homemade candlesticks are painted with contour paints. Also try painting the banks stained glass paints, it will be very beautiful!
Dot painting of a candlestick
Made using a gold outline on glass
Moroccan candlestick from a jar - glitter painted
It is very easy to make a stained glass candlestick from cans:
- Using a glass contour, you need to apply a design to the jar. Instead of a contour, you can use glitter. Then paint the jar with stained glass paints.
- Allow the drawing to dry for 1-2 hours. Then insert a candle into the jar and you can admire the result.
Such a special glass contour can be found in any “decor” store.
Contour painting technique
You can also use the tote technique to paint plates -
Candlestick decorated with semolina from a glass jar it looks very impressive.
- You need to start working from the bottom of the jar. It must be thoroughly greased with glue and rolled in semolina.
- Then use glue to draw arbitrary patterns on the walls of the jar and also sprinkle them with semolina.
- When the glue has dried, the pattern must be covered with paint and allowed to dry again.
- You can fix the result using hairspray.
There can never be too many candlesticks - every romantically inclined person knows this, as well as everyone who loves evening gatherings with friends by candlelight. Using a glass jar is an original and affordable way to decorate your home and give it a cozy atmosphere.
The jars are decorated with glitter
If you decorate a jar with glitter, then such candlesticks are an excellent decoration for a wedding or New Year's table.
How to do it? See the article ““ - the execution technique is the same!
A structural candlestick will turn out, if you wrap a rope around a jar. Its size does not matter; here you can focus on your own imagination and preferences.
- We cover future candlesticks with paint. To do this, you can use a brush or washcloth. While the paint layer dries, prepare the candles.
- We attach the twine and color it. At the final stage, remove the rope. IN ready product place the candles and install it in the chosen location.
How correctly and evenly? See article.
In fact, making a candle holder from a glass jar is not at all difficult. Your imagination is important here. An ordinary jar can be decorated in different ways, and you will get an original candlestick.
Canvas hearts are attached to the jar using silicone glue
Decor with linen and lace
floating candle
Decor with an old fishing net
For example, you can cover a jar with stars cut out of foil. You can crochet it and use an unusual pattern to give it a unique and inimitable look. Or you can cover the jar with colored pebbles.
You can also paint the jar with paints and draw a picture on it. Some even decorate with lace and it also turns out very beautiful and looks unusual. In the photographs you can see some options for homemade candlesticks.
Master class on a candlestick made from a jar and decorative stones
To do this you will need:
- glass jars;
- silicone glue for glass;
- decorative glass pebbles of different sizes.
- Candle.
- Take a glass jar and peel off the label.
- Apply glue to the decorative glass stones one by one and glue them to the jar. So carry on glue each pebble in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the top of the can.
- Insert a candle inside the jar. Your magnificent candlestick is ready.
Pebbles are also attached with silicone or “Moment” type glue.
Instead of glass pebbles, you can take sea or decorative ones for flowers! It will turn out very impressive
Master class on a candlestick made from a glass jar with a window
To do this you will need:
- glass jars;
- painting livestock;
- acrylic paint or spray paint
- twine, ribbon.
- candle.
Step 1
Take a glass jar and stick a piece of masking tape on its wall. If the stripes are thin, then make several rows overlapping each other.
Step 2
We glue with tape or masking tape heart shaped
Cut out a silhouette from the pasted tape. In our example, this is a heart. Remove excess tape from the jar, leaving only the silhouette of the figure on the wall.
Step 3
Paint with acrylic paint using an aerosol can
Cover the jar with paint. It is most convenient to use a spray can. To do this, roll several newspapers into a tube and put a jar on them. Cover the entire surface of the glass container evenly with paint. If necessary, make another layer. Instead of a spray can, you can use acrylic paint. But it takes longer to dry.
Step 4
When the paint is dry, use something to prop it up masking tape and remove it. Decorate the neck of the jar with twine or ribbon. Place a tablet candle inside. The original glass jar candlestick is ready.
Candlesticks made from small glass jars. Many people think that the best candlesticks are made from tall or wide jars. After all, they can accommodate a lot of decor and, thanks to their size, there is a large field for creativity. But in fact, you can make a very beautiful candle holder from a baby food jar. Sometimes just a couple of touches are enough and a wonderful decor is ready.
Stencil for an openwork candlestick
How to make a candlestick from a tin can?
Small tin cans can become excellent material for a beautiful New Year's candlestick.
This beauty is made from an ordinary tin can and paper lace, which can be made independently from regular wallpaper and a hole punch.
Country style candlestick
- First, the jar is painted with acrylic paint.
- Then you can attach to the paper laces thin strip fabric lace. The resulting tape is glued to the painted, dried surface of the jar.
- When the lace is dry, all that remains is to decorate the jar according to your discretion. Additional decorative elements can include buttons, old keys, and small souvenirs.
The resulting candlestick will decorate any table and will look impressive on a snow-white festive tablecloth.
You can also hang similar candlesticks from a tin can on the wall as wall decor.
From tin cans, hangers and candle tablets can be made original decor for an empty wall
There is very little time left before the New Year 2019 and you want a real New Year's spirit to reign in your home? The simplest and effective method- a game with light, when a living flickering candle will create a mysterious atmosphere and give a magical mood. In the flame of a candle, all problems and worries gradually disappear, and they are replaced by the expectation of a miracle. To create a New Year's atmosphere, you need a lot of candles. And where there are candles, there are also candlesticks, which are easy to make yourself. New Year's candlesticks 2019- unusual decor with your own hands, capable of decorating any room, exciting activity, which will not leave anyone indifferent.
We decorate the candles.
The candle itself can be decorated using coffee beans, dried berries, beads or nuts. To do this, you just need a small glass or metal stand where the candle is placed. 
To please, surprise and delight your friends, family and loved ones, you can do... After all, such a postcard can convey much more bright feelings to the recipient and bring special joy and pride to the author.
Floating candles
It's nice to watch the floating candles. Everyone has an old transparent vase or crystal salad bowl. Now all that remains is to put small pine cones in the vase, or Christmas decorations, pour water and lower the candles onto it. And then your creative composition will become the main decoration of the festive table. 
Scented fruit candles.
Original candlesticks can be made from citrus fruits, but they need to be prepared immediately before the celebration. Such candlesticks will give a beautiful and very unusual glow and subtle aroma. Take grapefruits or oranges, cut them in half and carefully remove all the pulp, keeping the skin.
Using a marker or pen, draw a simple pattern and nail scissors cut out any excess. There should be a lot of holes to allow light to escape.
Place a candle in the center of each half. Decorate the fruit candlestick with small Christmas tree branches, dried clove buds, and rowan berries. Use toothpicks to attach berries and tiny toys. 
New Year's candlesticks made of twigs.
Such decorative candlesticks suitable for rustic style, Country and Eco. To make them, you can use small twigs, brushwood, hay and pieces of logs; you just need to collect a bundle of any size and shape, glue the twigs together with hot glue and decorate with ribbons, berries or small New Year's toys. To prevent the holiday decorations from catching fire, candles in this design should be placed on metal stands that you can cut yourself from tin cans. It is better to take short and stable candles. 
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