Holiday Pumpkin Pie Spice Tealight Candle

by ks3b1 in Living > Holidays

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Holiday Pumpkin Pie Spice Tealight Candle

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This project is a pumpkin spice tealight candle, which is very festive for this holiday season! This DIY creation proves to be a helpful little life hack if you ever need to spruce up your decorations!

Supplies

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  • A pan
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • A box cutter
  • A plastic spoon
  • Two toothpicks
  • One unscented tealight candle
  • Scissors (optional)
  • Two aluminum cans (one is not shown here)
  • A small orange crayon piece
  • An even smaller brown crayon piece

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Cut off the bottom part of one of the aluminum cans with a box cutter. Finish the cut with scissors if you'd like.

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Gently take the tealight candle out of its container and cut out the wick. Keep the container.

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Cut up the remaining candle, and put 1/3 of it in one of the can bottoms with the small brown crayon. Put the other 2/3 of the candle in the other can bottom with the orange candle.

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Put both of the can bottoms in the pan, and put the pan on a heated stovetop. Wait to stir until you see the candle start to melt into a somewhat clear liquid.

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Put the wick back into the tealight candle container, and scoop/pour the brown crayon material into the bottom. This wax cools very fast, so I actually had to reheat it a few times because it had hardened before I had a chance to get it all in the container.

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Add the pumpkin pie spice to the orange mixture, stir, and then pour that on top of the brown mixture (Wait a minute or two to make sure that the brown mixture has cooled all of the way). Add some spice to the top of the wax while it is still wet. Wait 5-10 minutes to ensure that it has time to set.

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Take the candle out of it's container. If you end up burning this candle, it would probably be safer to do so inside the container.