Create Your Own Candles!: 30 Easy-to-Make Designs (Quick Starts for Kids!)

By Laura Check

Book Overview

Children love candles. This book begins with 'Ten Hot Safety Tips' for kids. It is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824986636
• ISBN13: 9780824986636
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: WorthyKids
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A handy, easy-to-follow walkthrough for a great craft project, holiday giftmaking, or family fun act

The latest in the Quick Starts for Kids series, Create Your Own Candles: 30 Easy-To-Make Designs is a guide for readers ages 10 to adult to making candles and candleholders. An easy, fun, and inexpensive activity book, Create Your Own Candles requires little more than wax, wicks, old pans for heating the wax, utensils for stirring and cutting, and suitable glass containers which can be found at secondhand stores. Chapters cover beeswax candles, molded candles, hand-dipped candles, gel candles, and vibrant candleholders that can be made from recycled materials. A list of safety tips, such as the importance of using baking soda or a pot lid to smother a wax fire (water will not extinguish a wax fire because wax floats on water) rounds out this practical and adventurous guide, illustrated with black-and-white sketches throughout. Of course, Create Your Own Candles presumes that younger children will have adult supervision when engaging in this craft, and warns that certain types of wax will render pots and pans too waxy for use in regular cooking. A handy, easy-to-follow walkthrough for a great craft project, holiday giftmaking, or family fun activity.