How to Make a Halloween Fingers Candle
Create a creepy and functional Halloween decoration for your home with a few inexpensive craft items. You can make taper candles that look like witch fingers to adorn your table on Halloween even if you have no candle-making experience. Place your wax fingers in candlestick holders or press them firmly into bowls or cups filled with sand and decorate with a few rubber spiders, snacks, eyeballs or other small Halloween novelty toys. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Press-on nail
- Large mixing bowl
- Damp sand
- Candle wicks
- Green wax crystals
- Wax boil bag
- Cooking pot
- Boiling water
- Rag
- Craft paint
Instructions
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Apply a long press-on nail to one of your index fingers. If you already have long nails, you can skip this step.
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Fill a large mixing bowl with damp sand. If the sand is dry, add small amounts of water and mix it in with your hands until the sand feels damp and heavy.
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Smooth down the surface of the sand with your hand to make it as flat as possible.
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Extend your index finger with the long nail attached and push it straight down into the sand. Hold your finger in this position for a moment and then slowly pull it straight up and out of the sand. The impression left behind in the sand is the mold for your finger candle.
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Repeat step four as many times as necessary. Each impression in the sand will render one Halloween finger candle.
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Cut a candle wick approximately 3 inches longer than your finger for each finger candle.
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Insert one wick into each finger impression carefully and push it down approximately 1/2 inch into the sand at the bottom of the impression.
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Measure 1/2 cup of green wax crystals or pellets for each finger into a wax boil bag. Wax boil bags are heavy-duty plastic bags that will not melt when exposed to boiling water or hot wax.
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Place the wax-filled boil bag into a pot of boiling water for several minutes. As soon as the wax is melted, remove the bag from the water.
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Pour the melted wax slowly into each finger impression while you hold the wick straight up to keep it in the center of the impression.
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Place the mixing bowl in a cool, dry place for 24 hours.
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Pull the cool, dry finger candles out of the sand with your hands. Wipe away all of the sand with a rag.
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Paint the nail on each finger with water-based craft paint to finish your Halloween finger candles.
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Tips & Warnings
File the bottom of each finger candle to make it fit into a candle holder, if necessary.
Hot wax can cause burns, so handle the wax carefully while filling the mold.
