Beautiful candles and candlesticks can decorate any interior.
To do this, you don't need to buy candles and/or candlesticks, as you can make them yourself using old candles that you have at home and a few available tools.
Here are some interesting ideas on how you can make beautiful and fragrant candles and candle holders for them at home.
How to make coffee candles
You will need:
- small bowls or glasses
- candle paraffin (can be cut from old candles, melted and used)
- candle wick
- Super glue
- coffee beans
- chopped vanilla beans
- pot.
1. Melt the paraffin in the microwave, in a saucepan on an electric stove or in a water bath.
2. Glue the wick to the bottom of a bowl, glass or other form, where you will then pour the melted paraffin.
3. Pour some paraffin into the mold, add a layer of coffee beans and a layer of vanilla beans. After this, fill out the form completely. Try to keep the wick straight.
* While pouring paraffin, you can stir it with a stick.
4. Wait for the paraffin to harden and trim off any excess wick if necessary.
How to make a coffee scented candle with your own hands
DIY shell candles at home
1. Place shells on newspaper.
2. Glue the wick to the bottom of the shell.
3. Melt the paraffin and pour it into the shells.
4. Wait for the paraffin to cool and you will have the perfect decoration for the bathroom, for example.
Making cinnamon candles
You will need:
- cinnamon sticks
- thick candle (not scented)
- rubber.
1. Place a rubber band on your candle.
2. Start tucking cinnamon sticks under the gum.
You can use two or three rubber bands for security.
* You can decorate the candle with braid, jute sack fabric and/or a sprig of berries (can be artificial).
Homemade candle with spices
1. Pour some oil into a saucepan and place on low heat, but do not bring to a boil.
2. Add spices to the oil and stir.
3. Remove from heat and let cool.
4. Pour the resulting solution into a jar and let it brew for no more than 2 days.
5. Melt the paraffin - cut a piece of paraffin (new or from an old candle), place in a saucepan and place on low heat.
6. Prepare the wick. Attach it to the bottom of the jar using tape.
7. Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the jar.
8. Pour melted paraffin into the jar and stir to combine the oil and paraffin.
9. Place the jar in the freezer for 20 minutes or just in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
10. When you light a candle, you will feel a pleasant aroma.
DIY lemon candle
You will need:
- paraffin or beeswax
- lemon essential oil
- wick
— container for paraffin (mold).
1. Melt the paraffin in a saucepan over low heat.
2. From a saucepan, pour a little melted paraffin onto the bottom of the candle mold and insert the wick.
* The wick can also be glued to the bottom of the container in advance.
3. Add a few drops of lemon essential oil to a saucepan with paraffin.
4. Pour the melted paraffin into the mold, holding the wick straight.
5. Wait for the paraffin to cool.
* You can decorate the candle with jute and film, making it an excellent addition to the gift.
Making a lavender candle at home
You will need:
- soy wax
- soy wicks
- thermometer
- flavoring agent
- a jar or other container for a candle.
1. Place soy wax in a saucepan and heat to 60-70 degrees. For one large soy candle you will need 2 cups of crushed wax.
2. While the wax is melting, glue the wick to the candle container.
3. Remove the wax from the stove and let cool to 50 degrees. After this, add a flavoring agent - vanilla aromatic oil or lavender.
4. Pour the melted soy wax into the jar. Try to keep the wick straight; to do this, you can press it with chopsticks or toothpicks.
5. The wax will harden overnight, after which the candle can be used, and if necessary, you can cut off part of the wick if it is too long.
Here's another way to make a scented candle at home:
You will need:
- jars
- floating candles
- lemons and lime
- essential oil with the scent of lemon or other citrus fruits
- aromatic herbs
- twine or braid.
1. Cut lemons and limes into wedges.
2. Place the herbs in a jar. In this example, rosemary, thyme, lavender and chamomile were used.
3. Fill the jar halfway with water and add 10 drops of essential oil.
4. Place lemon and lime slices in a jar and add water.
5. Now all that remains is to place a candle on the water and decorate the jar with twine or braid.
How to make heart-shaped candles with your own hands
You will need:
- soy wax or paraffin
- candle dye
- wicks
- fragrance (any essential oil can be used)
- baking paper
- baking tray
- a small skewer, skewer or other thin, sharp object (to make a hole for the wick)
- heart-shaped baking molds.
1. Grind wax or paraffin and pour it into a pan. Add a few drops of dye and melt the wax.
2. While the wax is melting, place a sheet of baking paper (slightly larger than a baking sheet) on the table.
3. When the wax has melted, add a few drops of fragrance to it.
4. Remove the pan of wax or paraffin from the stove and let it cool slightly, but not so much that it hardens.
5. Fill a baking tray with melted wax. In this example, the result was a layer 1 cm thick.
6. Allow the wax to cool and acquire the desired color, but it should still remain a little warm.
7. Make a hole in each heart for a wick.
8. Use baking cutters to cut out wax (paraffin) into heart shapes. The remaining wax can be placed in a saucepan and melted again and poured into molds.
9. Let the wax cool completely (you can put it in the refrigerator for a while).
10. Thread the wick into the hearts and trim off the excess. It is not necessary that all the hearts be exactly located.
Making pink candles in beautiful candlesticks at home
* If you want the painted part to be smooth, use masking tape - cover the top of the glass with it, and after painting the bottom, remove the tape.
* Brush off excess glitter with a brush.
For the candles you will need:
- paraffin
- wick (preferably with a metal base)
- candle dye
- essential oils (if desired)
- pot
- wooden spoon
- skewers
1. Melt paraffin in a saucepan. Try to stir it from time to time.
2. While the paraffin is melting, insert the wick into the glass. It can be glued to the bottom of the cup if necessary. Or you can press the wick with two skewers secured together with tape. Place them on a glass.
3. After the paraffin has melted, add a little dye and, if desired, essential oil.
4. Start pouring paraffin into your cups. After this, let the paraffin cool and harden.
For the New Year you can make a huge number of decorations with your own hands. They can be done with children, as they are quite simple and understandable to anyone.
DIY Christmas tree decorations: shiny pine cone
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You will need:
- bleach
- capacity
- acrylic paint
- PVA glue.
If the cones have not opened, then you can open them in the following way:
1. Dilute bleach with water in a container in a ratio of 2 to 1. For one share, you can use a regular glass.
2. Dip the cone into the solution and press it with a mug or plate so that the cone does not float up for 48 hours.
3. Remove the bud from the solution, place it on a paper towel and let it dry. You will need to wait a few days. If you want to speed up the process, then after a day, put the buds in the oven at 250 degrees and wait until they open.
* If your cone is already open, you can paint it with white acrylic paint, let it dry, apply a little PVA glue to the cone and sprinkle with glitter.
* Tie a ribbon to the pine cone and you can hang it on the Christmas tree.
New Year's tree decorations: cinnamon trees
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You will need:
- cinnamon sticks
- artificial pine garland
- colorful buttons
- hot glue or superglue
- wire cutters
- ribbon or thick thread (string)
- ruler.
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1. Using wire cutters, cut three pieces of faux pine garland of varying lengths. In this example, their lengths are: 2.5 cm, 5 cm, and 7.5 cm.
2. Glue each piece of garland to a cinnamon stick in descending order from bottom to top.
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3. Cut a string 15 cm long, fold it in half, tie the ends and glue the resulting loop to your Christmas tree.
4. All that remains is to decorate the Christmas tree: glue multi-colored buttons to the branches, and your decoration can be hung on the New Year tree.
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* Instead of buttons, you can glue pompoms, sparkles, sequins and much more.
Decorating Christmas balls with burlap
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You will need:
- burlap
- scissors
- PVA glue
- foam balls
- stamps (optional)
- ribbon, twine or strong thread
- pins (buttons)
- decorations to taste.
1. Try the burlap on a foam ball and cut petal-shaped pieces from it.
*You can use burlap in different shades.
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2. Use PVA glue to glue the burlap pieces to the foam ball. Use a little glue because... it will pass through the material.
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3. Once the glue has dried, you can decorate the ball with stamps, glitter or other decorations.
4. Glue ribbon to the balloon so it can be hung on the tree.
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How to make a Christmas tree decoration in the shape of a house
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You will need:
- ice cream sticks (sold separately in office supplies)
- colored cardboard
- a picture, sticker or pattern cut out of paper (New Year's themed)
- hot glue or superglue
- asterisk (wooden, paper) - optional
- twine
- acrylic paint (optional)
- sparkles.
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1. You can first paint the sticks brown or any other color.
2. Glue 4 sticks together to form a square (see image).
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3. Glue a square piece of construction paper to a square of sticks.
4. Glue two sticks to the structure so that they form the roof of the house.
5. You can glue any pattern or design cut out of paper to colored cardboard.
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6. You can glue a star to the roof of the house.
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7. You can decorate the house and the star with sparkles.
8. Glue or tie a piece of twine to the roof of the house so that the craft can be hung.
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Christmas tree decorations made of paper: beautiful snowflake
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You will need:
- an old unnecessary book, magazine or thick colored paper
- PVA glue or hot glue
- strong thread or wire
- glitter (optional).
1. In a magazine or book, measure the thickness of the strips 2.5 cm. Decide how thick you want each strip to be and multiply this number by 2.
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In this example, the thickness of one strip is 5 pages, and 10 pages were cut off at once for the future.
2. Leave one strip (all strips are 5 pages thick) untouched, cut 1.5 cm from the 2nd and 3rd, 2.5 cm from the 4th and 5th, and 2.5 cm from the 6th and 7th 5 cm. You can choose the length of each strip yourself.
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3. Fold all the strips in half and glue the ends together to form part of the “petal” of the snowflake. Connect the petals together and glue them at the base.
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4. Place something heavy on the end of the resulting workpiece.
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Tie the end of the workpiece with fishing line or strong thread.
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5. Repeat steps 1-4 until you have 8 of these blanks.
6. Take several strips of paper, twist them into a ring and secure this ring with strong thread or fishing line.
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7. Glue all your petals to the circle as shown in the image - first vertically and horizontally (to form a cross), and then diagonally.
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8. Glue the petals together. Do not skimp on glue to make the structure durable.
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9. You can decorate the snowflake with sparkles. To do this, you can apply a little PVA glue on it and sprinkle glitter on top.
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Decorating a Christmas tree from dried fruits
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You will need:
- apples
- grapefruit
- orange
- lime (optional)
- cinnamon sticks
- twine
- stationery knife
- scissors.
1. First you need to cook the fruit. Cut them into slices and make a small hole in the center of each slice.
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2. Place all the slices on a baking sheet, placing baking paper on it in advance. Place the tray with the fruit in the oven at the lowest temperature and wait a couple of hours. The slices can also be dried in the sun, but this will take a couple of days.
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3. When all the fruits are dry, insert a cinnamon stick through the holes of several slices of different fruits. You will need approximately 8-9 cloves.
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4. Tie ribbon, raffia or twine to either end of the cinnamon and you're done.
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Here are some more options for dried fruit decorations:
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Christmas tree decorations from scrap materials
How to make DIY Christmas tree decorations from branches and ribbons
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You will need:
- straight branches
- PVA glue or hot glue (if necessary)
- twine
- scissors.
1. Cut several ribbons of different lengths.
2. Tie the ribbons to the stick, starting with the shortest one at the top of your head. Work your way to the bottom, adding a longer ribbon.
3. Tie twine to your tree so it can be hung.
*If necessary, you can add a little glue to help the ribbons and twine stick better.
Cinnamon began to be used as a seasoning many thousands of years ago, and since then it has taken root in the recipes of many peoples of the world. However, with the growth of its popularity, not only culinary specialists, but also representatives of the handmade world began to pay attention to it, each time coming up with a new use for the unusual-looking spice.
Decorative crafts made from cinnamon sticks look cute and original, and therefore are often present in the homes of all those who like to decorate their interiors on their own. Most often, they are used in winter decor, characterized by an abundance of fir branches, snowflakes, warm materials, burlap and other items characteristic of the cold season.
Candlesticks
The most common products made from twisted cinnamon tree bark are candlesticks. They are quite simple to make, using improvised means as a supplement, and therefore you can create such items even with children of primary school age. In fact, there are several methods for making such decorative elements, but we will focus on the most common ones.
Option 1. Candles decorated with twine
To make these cute candlesticks you need to prepare the following: materials: 3 wide candles of the same size, 1 package of cinnamon sticks that are longer than the candles are tall, a roll of twine and 1 elastic band.
How to do: 1. Place a rubber band on the candle, making sure that the latter sits quite tightly on it.
2. Place the cinnamon sticks around it so that they are in close contact with each other. Secure each of them with an elastic band.
3. When finishing decorating the candles, tie them with twine in several layers, tying the last one in a bow.
4. If desired, place three candles in a row on a flat dish. Decorate them with natural elements in the form of nuts and similar fruits. They will look good both on a romantically set table and on a festive table designed for a small family.
Option 2. Glass candlestick
In this case, the manufacture of the candlestick itself is assumed. For him will be needed: a small glass jar, a glue gun and E 6000 glue, a small candle, a ribbon or cord, a package of cinnamon sticks, a piece of construction paper (optional) and a button.
How to do: 1. Wash the prepared jar thoroughly and dry.
2. Choose about 20 cinnamon sticks of sufficient length for it. They should completely cover the height of the jar.
3. Treat each stick with glue and glue it around the jar, pressing them tightly against the glass for 20-30 seconds.
4. If you plan to make a holiday candlestick, then you should attach a piece of paper with appropriate congratulations to it. Make a hole in one corner of the leaf and thread a thread through it. Cover the puncture site with a button, also threading it through one end of the thread used.
5. Wrap the latter tightly around the jar and tie it with a nice knot or thread it through the hole of the button, tying the loose ends under it. Trim the edges of the thread that are too protruding.
The decorative candlestick is ready. Now you can put a candle in it and safely light it.
And this is what a similar candlestick might look like, made from a candle enclosed in a glass stand and cinnamon sticks glued to it using the same glue:
It is not tied with anything, and therefore looks more natural and unusual.
Using these methods, you can actually create any shapes and types, decorated with anything: bright ribbons, tree branches, berries and other plant elements.
Wreaths
In addition to candlesticks, these spices can also be used to make molds. They can be made from many different elements, or simply from the cinnamon sticks themselves.
For example, it might look like this:
All that is needed in both cases is to find a suitable base and glue the sticks well to it, arranging them in a pre-thought-out manner.
Also, they will look good next to spruce branches and cones:
Decoration and table setting
If you need to decorate any holiday or wedding table, you can always use several cinnamon sticks, which can be placed on a napkin near the dish, or become an element of a separate table decoration.
One classic example is to place chopsticks next to cutlery:
They can also be attached to rolled linen napkins, adding viburnum berries to the composition:
Hot stand
In Alena Maslova’s handicraft workshop there is a wonderful tutorial that tells in detail how to make a hot stand from cinnamon sticks. For her will be needed: 8 cinnamon sticks, super glue, a square wooden base (its size should correspond to the length of the sticks), four circles for the legs (or something else), a small roll of twine, acrylic paint (preferably dark brown).
How to do: 1. Glue the legs to the board. Paint with acrylic paint. Wait until the product is completely dry.
2. Glue 8 cinnamon sticks (in one row) to the surface of the board or tie them with twine as shown in the photo below:
3. When wrapping the rope around the stick, tie it in two knots each time. Finally, secure the knots of the rope to the legs of the wooden stand.
Other decorative elements and decorations
With a lot of imagination, cinnamon sticks can:
- become a decoration for a decorative glass or vase:
- can be used to create bonbonnieres:
- turn into one of the decorative elements of the kitchen:
It’s also easy to make a New Year’s ball, a decorative panel and much more from cinnamon sticks. And jewelry masters are able to make chains and even earrings from them:
They look especially beautiful together with coffee beans and crafts made from them:
Each of the above-described decorations, in addition to originality, will be distinguished by a pleasant aroma and naturalness. In addition, it is easy to renew: if any part of the candlestick gets burnt, replacing it with a new cinnamon stick will not be difficult.
All kinds of unnecessary little things, of which everyone has plenty at home, polymer clay, etc. These items are always original, since they are made in a single copy. But at the same time, they do not have one important property, an essential component - aroma.
Remember what you associate with the New Year? It’s safe to say that in addition to the visual images of dressed up and floating outside the window, you will certainly remember the smells - tangerine, pine needles, fresh baked goods, chocolate, cinnamon... All these aromas are inextricably linked in our memory with, a family feast, a long-awaited meeting with loved ones – they make our memories vivid, complementing them with new sensations.
Today we will talk about how you can make your own crafts using spices . Such interior decorations will not only serve as decor, but also fill the room with an unforgettable aroma. At the same time, I would like to immediately say that spices can either be added to New Year’s accessories created from other materials, or be an independent decorative element. So, in the end, it’s up to you to make a craft from spices, or add aromatic notes to existing decorations for the New Year.
Probably the most A popular New Year's spice is cinnamon.
. After all, it is customary to prepare many delicious things for the holiday, including homemade ones with the addition of cinnamon. To enhance the presence of this aromatic spice in the room, you can make several crafts from it.
For example it could be Christmas tree ball made from cinnamon sticks . To do this, you need to glue cinnamon sticks onto a regular New Year's ball (you can use a small plastic ball, in which case you will also need to glue a ribbon to it for hanging on the Christmas tree). If this option seems complicated to you, you can simply tie the cinnamon sticks with ribbon (string with decorations in the form of nuts) and hang this design on.
Next An option for using cinnamon sticks is to create candlesticks from them . To make one, you first need to glue a cardboard ring along the diameter of the candle, and then glue cinnamon sticks onto it. Additionally, you can decorate such a candlestick with ribbons, green branches, beads, etc.
They would look just as appropriate cinnamon sticks in Christmas wreaths . It is desirable that, in addition to cinnamon, other natural materials are also present - dried citrus slices, pine cones, berries - such a composition will look very organic.
Well, and, of course, cinnamon powder can be widely used in baking . Funny Christmas cookies, in the shape of little animals, can be hung on the Christmas tree, or simply placed in a beautiful dish under.
No less aromatic spice than cinnamon are clove sticks . At first glance, it may seem that it is completely impossible to beat them in an interesting way - but such an opinion is fundamentally wrong. From clove sticks, like from mosaic pieces, you can put together a whole picture, and in this case, oranges act as the “canvas”.
Make neat holes in the orange with an awl (you can also use a knife to make a pattern - grooves) and insert cloves into them. The drawing can be abstract or depict someone (something) - as you wish. Thus, you will combine two fragrant objects - orange and cloves, into one element.
So wonderful spices like bay leaf and black pepper - peas can also be used in New Year's crafts . Make a Christmas tree decoration by combining a dried orange slice, a bay leaf, and several dried berries - an unusual Christmas tree pendant is ready. In addition, from bay leaves glued to a cardboard cone, you can make the main New Year's symbol - a small Christmas tree that will look great on.
Black peppercorns are simply irreplaceable when creating culinary table decorations - eyes, nose, mouth, buttons and other small details of food figurines are made from it. Black pepper can also replace beads - when creating others - in this case, it is simply glued to the base.
Coffee beans , of course, are not a spice, but... The aroma of coffee always puts you in a good mood – what else do you need on holidays? Coffee beans make the most beautiful crafts - for example, the same Christmas trees - not only original, but also fragrant. Coffee beans can be glued to a base of any shape - it all depends on what exactly you want to make - a New Year's ball or a Christmas tree, or something else. In addition, coffee beans in crafts can be combined with other products - for example, peanuts, creating real mosaic paintings.
Recently, a very popular type of handmade work has become making soap at home . Homemade soap contains extremely healthy ingredients - and, in addition, it usually has a wonderful aroma. If you are familiar with the technology of making homemade soap, then you can give such a gift to your loved ones, using all kinds of aromatic additives as a filler, including spices. Such a gift will first smell fragrant in your home on the eve of the holidays, and then in the home of those for whom it was created.
Create decorations for the New Year holidays
extremely interesting - you can experiment unlimitedly in this area. Try starting with using a variety of spices in your crafts
– they will allow you to make your interior unforgettable, filling it with a wonderful, festive aroma.
For many of us, cinnamon is associated specifically with winter - this is the spicy mulled wine that is brewed at Christmas markets, and traditional cupcakes that are aged for at least a month, revealing the aromas of spices and seasonings, and simply beautiful and stylish decor that adorns gifts and New Year's compositions. By the way, decor with cinnamon- a very interesting topic that you can develop yourself by making something unusual and original with your own hands. You should not think that this is financially beyond your reach: real cinnamon sticks, of course, are very expensive, however, in all sorts of florist and decor stores you can literally buy cassia tree sticks for pennies - in appearance they are practically no different from the bark of a cinnamon tree, they have a very similar aroma, but due to the fact that they are found in nature much more often, they cost much less and because of this they are used for decorative purposes (and often, by the way, for culinary purposes: real cinnamon is not a cheap pleasure, so unscrupulous manufacturers sell it under its guise cassia powder). So, decor with cinnamon- looking for ideas for inspiration?
Decor with cinnamon - 5 fragrant ideas:
1. Volumetric “pendant” made from cinnamon sticks
Wooden beads, cinnamon sticks, rough hemp rope... A completely atmospheric, stylish New Year's decoration! Look - doesn't the project inspire you to create something similar, but your own? What would you add to the composition that you would do differently? It’s very interesting to see, what about you?
2. Cinnamon stick snowflake
A dozen of these snowflakes - and the whole house will smell like Christmas and New Year! In fact, this is one of the most important Christmas decorations: what winter can pass without snowflakes? What winter holidays can take place without the tender and elegant gifts of this time of year? Snowflakes are a must-have project, maybe this one will hook you so much that you will put aside all your current affairs and make a couple of snowflakes with your own hands?
3. Textile-cinnamon Christmas trees
The textile base gives these Christmas tree decorations an incredible homely feel. A cinnamon stick adds notes of New Year's mood and Christmas miracles to the overall atmosphere. The most beautiful miracle Christmas trees that your Christmas tree simply needs! Sew, create and create - such a project will bring joy and anticipation of the holidays into your home.
4. Five-pointed star made from cinnamon sticks
The perfect Christmas tree decoration! It looks like your favorite New Year's toy from childhood - and although they are radically different in appearance, you look at this star and your thoughts are carried away to those times when dad took you in his arms and lifted you high, high to the ceiling so that you could place a star on the top of the prickly New Year tree....
