Welcome to PAGE TWO of the Simple Tutorial For Making DIY Faux Christmas Candles.
You can also use this technique to make groupings as shown below, but with different color faux candles by mixing red and green faux candles together in the grouping. You could also spray paint the rolls first in one color, then add white paint to your glue before dripping for a candy cane effect. Use your imagination and see what you can come up with.
What you will need:
- toilet paper rolls
- electric or battery operated tea lights
- glue gun and sticks
- spray paint (acrylic paint works even better than spray paint)
- scrap felt
IMPORTANT TIP: Make sure you get PUSH on, not a switch on (tea lights). Because if you make them longer than finger length you can use something long enough to push them on and off.
Instructions:
- Split the toilet paper rolls up the sides:
- Measure them around your tea lights, hot glue the sides back together.
- Use your hot glue gun to make some fake wax drippings.
- With your tealights out of the tube, spray paint them your chosen color.
- For the top of the tealights, use some scrap felt and cut out circles. A little notch in the top to slip the fake flame through
This is the finished product. Aren’t they GORGEOUS?
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Hi….such a cute and doable Christmas craft, but one question. Where do you get “push” on faux tea lights?? I can only find the ones with the little switch!!
Thanks!
Hi Patricia, I got mine at amazon >> http://www.amazon.com/Lilys-Battery-operated-Tealight-Flameless/dp/B000VUKQ6C
The link you have provided to purchase the tea lights leads to tea lights with slider switches, not “push” switches. I’ve never seen such a tea light. I can’t see any way to turn these on and off once they are in the toilet paper rolls if they have a slider switch. Even if you could use “push” switch tea lights, how do you turn them on and off once they are in the taller tubes?
HHMM they may have changed the link, Amazon does carry push button tea lights.. craft stores may too.. I use a pencil.. it fits up the tube to turn them on and off. I hope you find them 🙂
How did you get your felt to match SOOO closely – I thought you must have painted the top of the tea light until I looked very closely, and could see that it was felt! These are gorgeous! I will be making some for sure!
Hi Kim, lay the tube, (which has already been measured to fit the light) on the felt, trace the circle using the tube as a guide and cut out the circle and it will fit perfectly 🙂
Yes I’m trying to see how to make some of the different things that I love, but when I push for the steps and materials, it takes me to a different craft each time. Please help
It should be taking you to a different website as I share MANY crafts from other crafters websites. Just follow the links and it will take you to the website that has more details about the craft you are interested in.