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This simple project is perfect for the days leading up to Christmas and also makes a great gift. Instructions are easy:
cut star shapes from yellow or white beeswax sheets,
place on your candle and press lightly with your fingers.
The warmth of your hand will help the beeswax stick to any candle.
You can use these beeswax stars on any other candle you have handy. They don’t have to be made of beeswax for this to work.
That’s it! Scroll down for resources.
Candlelit Heart
by Mary E. Linton
Somewhere across the winter world tonight
You will be hearing chimes that fill the air;
Christmas extends its all-enfolding light
Across the distance … something we can share.
You will be singing, just the same as I,
These familiar songs we know so well,
And you will see these same stars in your sky
And wish upon that brightest one that fell.
I shall remember you and trim my tree,
One shining star upon the topmost bough;
I will hang wreaths of faith that all may see –
Tonight I glimpse beyond the here and now.
And all the time that we must be apart
I keep a candle in my heart.
Resources
All you need is star shaped cutters. We used Kemper Tools Klay Kutters Star Set, which includes 5 different sizes and retails for $10.95. You can buy them from Prairie Craft online. If you know of any other stores that carry them please leave a comment on this post so we have more resources! The candle pillars are made by Living Crafts contributor Jan Schubert of Bee Happy Candles. The photos of the orange and walnut wotives you see on her home page are from the article she contributed in the Winter 2009 issue of Living Crafts! For this project, she dipped her natural beeswax pillars in dark blue beeswax, to give them a night sky effect. All you have to do is cut star shapes from yellow beeswax sheets (we used the Stockmar brand). We bought the single color box and the color used is 05 Lemon Yellow. In her article for the Winter 2009 issue of Living Crafts Jan teaches you how to make walnut and citrus votives. I used her walnut votives as floating candles for my holiday party along with flowers, and it was a real hit. Here’s a photo:
I’d love to hear about other candle making and decorating ideas from your family!
Today’s Giveaway
We’re offering you a complete kit, with a box of the beeswax decorating sheets, a package of 5 star cutters, and 6 each blue pillar candles for a night of creative family crafting this holiday. This package is valued at $85. To enter, please leave a comment on this post by 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, December 19th. Comments close at that time, and the winner will be announced Monday, December 20th.
Blessings,
Pardis
Update: The winner of the Giveaway is Danielle: “A wonderful family craft for the holidays, thank you!”
Nothing beats the scent of beeswax, especially as you’re working with it. Lovely gift!
We have made these candles before. It is a great, easy and rewarding project. Beeswax burns so beautifully and smells so good. Thank you for offering such a great give-away!
What a lovely craft! We loooove beeswax at our house and those candles are so pretty!
This would be such a perfect project for our family.
Every post on your website leaves me awe-inspired. This craft is absolutely breathtaking!
Would love to do this!!
Beautiful beeswax project. Please enter my name in the drawing, thank you.
Lovely. What a great, yet simply idea!
What a wonderful project to do with my daughter! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas on your website.
We would have so much fun doing this!
Great giweaway and great idea for long winter nights!
Beautiful! We just made the waldorf lanterns. Great christmas gifts!! Thanks for all the lovely crafting ideas.
I love the pillars!! We have used the Nova Naturals cutters, too, they work great! Fantastic candle ideas, thank you!!
Just the craft I have been wanting to do with my little ones. Thanks for the giveaway.
What a great project!
What a fantastic project! I love the stars. This would be so much fun!!
very sweet candles- love the colors…
We LOVE to do this craft! I’d love to have the blue pillar candles– and I’ll happily share the star cutters and wax with others, since we have a good supply.
I used white pillar candles & decorated with different colors to create a scene for a child’s birthday, ie flowers, grass at the bottow, a sun at the top. They are beautiful! The love this idea of using the blue candle as the background! It’s so beautiful! I wish I had star cutters, as I had just fumbled around free-handing it…awkwardly…
How neat! Thank you especially for all the resources! xo.
the best magazine…the best projects and resources!
love!
My girls would love this!
I love beeswax candles.
We were just rolling the honeycomb sheet bees wax last night. What a neat idea to use the star cutter tools to make decoration on it!
Nothing better than the smell and beauty of beeswax candles during the holidays!
Will definitely be trying this craft! Thank you so much for the idea! I’m looking forward to switching it up for different holidays (red hearts for Valentine’s Day, etc.)
Shannon, this is such a great idea to do different onces for different holidays. Kemper Tools has different shapes to make hearts, flowers, and so on. thanks for sharing! pardis