How To Make Floating Candles From Ceiling

My kids oohed and aahed for a while over these harry potter floating candles.

How to make floating candles from ceiling.

All you need is some old paper towel and toilet paper rolls hot glue fishing wire and flameless tea lights to make these floating candles. You can also add some dye chips to the wax to give your candle a bolder color. Just a tip if you do make this and the candle falls and wax gets on your carpet. To make floating candles start by placing wax in a double boiler or hot plate and heating it to 150 degrees fahrenheit or until a thin film forms around the edges of the pot.

Just grab paper lowels fold 4 sheets and put it on the wax go over the wax with a hot iron. Don t let this craft scare you. This way your candles have a staggered effect when you hang them. If you re starting to think about halloween costume and decorating ideas here s a really fun and easy bit of decor or a costume prop to consider haunted harry potter floating candles.

I am in love with how easy these are to make and how cute they turned out. These were hung from the ceiling with fishing line to emulate the floating candles of the great hall at hogwarts but this technique can be used to create faux candles that can be used in many other. If you really want to be true to harry potter hang them over your dining table just like the floating candles in the hogwarts great hall. In how to make floating harry potter candles starry sky i show you step by step the process i did to make my dining room into the hogwarts great hall.

I don t know about you but one of my all time favorite scenes from the harry potter series is the one in the grand hall with the floating candles. These fake candles cost me 4 to make and are a perfectly spooky yet somehow pretty addition for halloween. Use a push pin to secure them to the ceiling with the fishing line. Next pour your melted wax into molds such as cookie cutters or muffin tins give them a.

Then throw a dinner party. Start collecting your tubes early because the more candles you have floating the cooler it will look. It s so simple and yet so breath taking.