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Get Your PVC Pipes Ready! You’re Gonna Need Them For This Halloween Project!


In a recent tutorial, I introduced you to the idea of Faux Candles that are a great alternative for Halloween Candles because you do not have to worry about them tipping over and burning anyone or worse, starting a fire. In this tutorial I found on a ‘Halloween Forum’, you will be making these out of PVC instead of paper rolls to make PVC Flicker Candles for Halloween. These will look great on the front porch to greet your Halloween guests.

pvc faux flicker halloween candles These are a bit more technical than the paper kind and some sawing of pipes is involved. You can make these with or without the face, either way they look great. The tutorial outlines making them with a face, so read through the tutorial first then decide which way you want to go.

What you will need:

~ 1 1/2″ PVC Pipe – Full length 8-10 ft pipes –> Home Depot
~ Great Stuff Insulation Filler –> Home Depot
~ LED Tea Lights
~ Hot Glue
~ Hot Glue Gun
~ 1 1/2″ Forstner Drill Bit (or whats the size of your tea lights are) –> Home Depot
~ Rustoleum Painters Touch Spray Paint (black) –> Home Depot
~ Transparent Orange Paint
~ Paint Brush

Head To The Next Page For Tutorial Instructions


7 Comments on Get Your PVC Pipes Ready! You’re Gonna Need Them For This Halloween Project!

  1. RE: Lighting up the eyes and mouth . . . . Do you drill out just enough for the tealight and the light penetrates the foam above?

    • You have to drill out the foam for a tealight at the bottom with a forstner bit, which is also used to drill out the eyes and mouth.

  2. I wanted to know how do you make the faces on the candles. Do you carve out the glue? I don’t understand how to make it.

    • These candles are made with pvc pipe, so the faces must be carved out using a saw. Just above the instructions on page 2 you will see this >> “Adding a face requires sawing the cutouts for the face as well as applying an extra tea light to the base so the face lights up.”

      I hope that helps 🙂 Thank you for visiting my website!

  3. Those are great !. I’m going to try it. But instead of using costly spray foam I’m going to think of another way to fill them.ill keep you posted.

  4. Would you be interested in making these in black (exactly like the cream ones in the middle), for a brewery in California? If so, we would love to pay to have these made!!!!!! PVC pipe will most definitely hold up in a bar!!!!!!!!

    • Your offer is flattering but I do not make crafts on a commercial basis at all. Way to busy with life and 8 grandkids and 6 animals LOL!

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