Floating candles may be found in many craft stores and specialty gift shops. Rather than paying for these buoyant pieces of wax, Carol recommends using paraffin or wax, and recycling the ends of candles or crayons to create your own. Carol's version can be made in many different colors and then placed in a bowl filled with water, flowers, and other decorations.
Materials:
natural colored paraffin wax
wax coated paper cup
wick
double boiler
colored paraffin, candles or crayons for coloring
Steps: - Melt the wax. Do not heat wax directly over an open flame or burner. Instead, use a double boiler. If you do not have a double boiler, you can use a larger pot, put water in it and melt the wax in a smaller pot that sits inside of the larger one. You could do the same using a large can and a smaller can.
- Heat the wax only until it's melted, making sure that it's not so hot that it will destroy the cup into which it will be poured.
- If you will be creating a candle with different colored layers, heat a small amount of neutral wax and add the colored candles, paraffin, or crayons to it.
- Since candles float best if they have a rounded bottom, slightly push out the bottom of the cup used as the mold.
- Hold wick in the center of the cup, and pour in the wax.
- If additional colors will be used, melt the paraffin as instructed in Steps 1 through 4, and layer on top of the previous color.
- Peel off the cup when the wax has hardened.
- For another decorative effect, melted paraffin, crayons, or candles may be melted and "painted" on at this point.
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