Batcave Campout is coming up and in the past I used the candles from the
Christmas candle lighting services for the council fire service in the back of
the cave. I didn't come across any so. I am making my own.
I have never made them before. PICTURES at Bottom of page!
Spray all stuff that the melted wax and cleanup will come in contact with with Pam Cooking Spray. It makes clean up so much easier.
1. Bought a walmart ice cube maker tubelular kind has 27 4" ice molds in it.
It will make 27 4" candles about 1" in diameter. Buy Pam Cooking
Spray.
2. Drilled a 1/8 hole in the removeable caps (all 27 are in one piece) and then
cut some hangers to make 2 stringers for candle string...(Kite Cotton) and used
Clothes pins for clamping and spacing end row of candle wicks.
3. Drilled 2 holes for the coat hanger stringers that center over the candle
molds center in a piece of yuka then split that in half. Slipped that over the
coat hangers and threaded them through the strings that are passed through the
candle molds and this keeps the cotton string (wicks) centered in the candle.
Plug each hole with a pinch of molding clay..
4. Melted wax in A Big coffee can with water and then in that placed a smaller
coffee can with wax (double boiler)
5. SPRAY FORM inside and out with Pam Cooking Spray wrap with aluminum foil
around bottom and poured in the wax.
6. Let sit over night.
7. Morning put the candle form in sink fill it to the top of the candle form ( hottest tap) water in the sink and popped the
candles out. I placed the form over the sink hole and used a dowel to push
the candles out...it must stay in the hot sink water while working on it. Worked great.
I am ready to pour my second 27 candle batch. They will be perfect for the
batcave and will burn for several hours. Make great
FCF candles. Candles made for
the back of the cave started from the Council Fire.
Used all cotton string. It worked. I needed about 80 candles for the devotion in the back of the Council fire and I had some wax and ended up buying a few more big candles to melt down and make smaller ones. I could buy them but this was fun and a bit cheaper.
Also made the bigger candle with cedar bark for a wick. I used a toliet paper roll for a form and then just peeled it off. To make it easier spray it with Pam.
Notes: Once you pour wait about 10 minutes and poke a hole in the top of each candle mold and top off the wax (If you want a full length candle.)
I used a hot pad mitten and a hot pad to pour the wax with.
Mark Jones
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