I was so pleased with how pretty these candles turned out and they’re so easy! All you need to do is cut a beeswax sheet diagonally, insert wick at wide end and roll!

Once it’s together, you can rub the seam a little so it stays stuck. Younger children can do this as long as you do the cutting for them.

Beeswax smells sweet naturally and it also burns well. Several colorful rolled beeswax candles wrapped in ribbon would make a nice gift. We just made two gold beeswax tapers pictured here along with others made the day before.

If you heat the beeswax sheets a little with a blow dryer it helps soften the sheets so that they will be more pliable. I learned this the hard way since one of our red ones cracked. It turned out fine though because we just made a couple smaller ones instead.

To make votives with beeswax, cut the sheet straight across into 2 inch length strips and roll evenly around a medium cotton wick. For pillars, use the whole sheet for a big one or cut one in two straight strips for smaller ones.

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