How to make candles
Necessary material:
Empty containers (they can be of all sorts: yoghurt con-tainers, or any nice ones you have at home)
Firstly, cover the work surface with a newspaper. After- wards put on top of it, the containers where you want to make the candles. Bear in mind that they have to be clean and dry.
Get the fuses ready: first you cut the containers in the right size and secondly and on top of them you stick one of those small aluminum supports that keep the fuse tight.
In a previously cleaned can, you put 250gr of wax-disco-lored pearls, which you can find in art shops, or drugs-tores and even in wax shops. Bear in mind that it is pre-ferable not to melt a big quantity of wax.
Take the superior part of the can container with the wooden clothespin, so we don’t get burnt. You put it in a small saucepan, which is inside a bigger sauce full of boil-ing water, and you move round the wax with a wooden stick or an ice-cream stick, until it melts. If you are melt-ing different colors of wax, you better use different sau-cepans.
Once the wax is melted, you put it inside each container. Once filled in, introduce the fuse with a help of a wooden stick so that it stays in the middle of it. The candle is finished. You just need to leave it dry for a few hours.
If you have chosen a plastic recipient such as yoghurts (Petit Suisse), you can remove it and you will get a pretty candle, but only after the wax is hard.
Remember to throw the plastic that you are not using in the plastic container, and it is very important never to leave a lightened candle without surveillance.