There are fragrant beeswax candles at our church that we can light when we pray for someone. Once they have burned down, my family brings the stubs home to recycle them into new candles. I've enjoyed trying out different candle making ideas each year, and I was particularly interested in an idea my daughter, Vera, found at the end of one of her chapter books: snow candles. It's just, we rarely get snow south of Atlanta, so I wasn't sure if we'd get the opportunity to try making our own snow candles. Lucky us, it snowed this week! Even luckier, we remembered about the snow candles before the snow melted.
We used the end of a thick wooden spoon to start our candle form.
Vera made sure there was a wick in each hole.
Once our wax was melted, we poured it into the holes we'd made in the snow.
What fun to see all the different shapes that came out. Sometimes the wax melted holes in the side of our form, and the heat would burrow labyrinthine caves into the snow, leaving asymmetrical points of interest in the candles we excavated.
Other times the wax didn't resist the icy borders, and it held the shape of the spoon handle.
These were fun to make since they each had a mind of their own. I think once the snow melts we will even find more hardened trails of wax that burrowed in our mound of snow.
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