Sand Candles
Bucket of sand
basic candle making supplies
Make free form candles using damp sand to make these wonderfuly fun shaped candles without a mold.
Take your sand and dampen it till its quiet moist and firm, a good consistency to follow is to make it like a sandcastle mix.
Using your hand shape into the sand a rounded hole, this is where you will pour in the wax.
You can counter sink the wick or add it later using a hot skewer to make a hole.
Let the wax sit overnight and pull it out of the mold be lifting it out of the sand. Remove any loose sand by brushing it off with a paintbrush.
The hotter your wax at pouring the thicker the sand crust will become it really depends on your own design idea.
To learn how to make Candles check out our Basic Candle Making Instructions
By Shellie Wilson. Shellie is the chief creative editor for Craftbits.
I really like this idea! I'm gonna buy a small sandcastle bucket that comes with mini plastic square molds & try packing it into the damp sand as to make an impression of the mold in hopes to get different shapes :) Thanx!
thankyou so much--
it has been years since I have made these
you are a great help
I have made sand candles many years ago,we put a round candle in the center and then added wax around that, in the outer wax we put drift wood or shells. we also used a blow torch to secure the outer sand. The ideas are great, but the photos are bad.
i absolutely love this web-site... you guys are great, thank-you.
Awsome! Could you make the "molds" a different shape, not just roundish?