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. The possibilities for your harry potter floating candles are endless. This way your candles have a staggered effect when you hang them. 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.

The wax will get obsorbed by the paper towls just make sure to change them often if the carpet starts to get too hot the wax will seep down intead of up. Just grab paper lowels fold 4 sheets and put it on the wax go over the wax with a hot iron. 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. Just a tip if you do make this and the candle falls and wax gets on your carpet.

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. These fake candles cost me 4 to make and are a perfectly spooky yet somehow pretty addition for halloween. I am in love with how easy these are to make and how cute they turned out. 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.

It s so simple and yet so breath taking. You can also add some dye chips to the wax to give your candle a bolder color. Don t let this craft scare you. 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.

Use a push pin to secure them to the ceiling with the fishing line. Then throw a dinner party. I wanted to re create that look for a party i held so let.