If you love the warm candlelight of small tea lights and are looking for great inspiration for your next craft project, we have collected some great ideas for you in this article that are easy to implement and have a lot of fun factor. Crafting with tea lights usually requires minimal effort and the results are often true works of art. We also have great suggestions for you on how to reuse the empty tea light holders.
Make your own beautiful tea light holder
Anyone who wants to enjoy the bright glow of tea lights at every opportunity, be it to simply relax after a tiring day or to create a romantic atmosphere, has probably already thought about where they should actually put the tea lights. Tea light holders not only provide a safe place to burn candles, but can also be a great decorative element. Our project forTealight holder craftsis quite suitable for both adults and children.
A perfect activity for your children is creating with clay. You will love shaping the clay with your hands and getting creative. First, a fist-sized ball is formed from self-drying clay. It is pressed slightly flat with the palms of the hands. Now your child can lightly press the tea light into the middle of the clay. This will create a hole that will be the holder for the rechaud candle.
Finally, you have to do thishomemade candle holdergive the desired shape. An abstract shape looks just as beautiful as a star-shaped tealight holder. You can also make the tealight holder out of salt dough. You can then decorate the holder with acrylic paint as desired. If you would like to make a holder for tea lights, there are of course other design options to choose from. For example, you can make a glass lantern out of glass. First, think about a color concept based on the furnishing style and the desired atmosphere. Dip an empty jam jar into the desired color or pour the color directly into the jar. Gently move the lantern back and forth until you get a nice color pattern.
Create great decorations
When you're making tea lights, you've probably already thought about how you can make the gray aluminum cases look pretty. A simple decoration would be glitter powder. Coat the tea light with the glue and simply roll the tea light in the glitter. Placed in an original lantern or simply loose, the tea lights will sparkle charmingly.
If you're in a hurry, you can turn the monotonous tea lights into a great, colorful decoration yourself. For this you will need washi tape in a favorite color. Simply cover the aluminum bowls of the lee lights with the washi tape and decorate the party table or anywhere in your home you would like to add color and great lighting accents.
If you would like to make pretty little gifts, you canthe colorful washi tapealso provide good service. Decorate the Rechaud candles with the great Japanese adhesive tape. Maybe choose different patterns and combine colors from the same color family or create great accents with contrasting colors. Packed in an organza bag, the tea lights make a loving and attractive gift.
You can make crafts with tea lights for various celebratory occasions. For example, if you want to conjure up a unique decoration for Christmas, you can transform standard white tea lights into true masterpieces. With the hand-painted henna tea lights you will undoubtedly amaze. You can prepare the henna paste from one tablespoon of henna, 1 teaspoon of sugar and water. Then fill the gel-like mass into a hennacon or henna applicator bottle and apply the desired patterns. Once the henna has dried, seal the designs with napkin glue.
Crafting with electric tea lights
You can also use electric tea lights when crafting. You can use these anywhere without any concerns. For example, if you want to do crafts with children at Christmas, you can use electric tea lights to create small, decorative Christmas trees. Your child can dip paper thread into paste and wrap the thread around a funnel shape covered with foil. You can also coat a simple sheet of paper with glue and then decorate it with rhinestones.
The homemade Christmas trees quickly shine with a festive light and conjure up a magical atmosphere, just as Christmas should be. You can make glowing Christmas trees from different materials. Let your imagination run wild and create figures that are illuminated inside by the electric tea lights. Clay and paper are easy to handle and very suitable for craft projects with children.
If you would like to make decorations or small party favors out of tea lights with the children for Halloween, you can easily make these glowing Halloween balls at home. For this you need pin pong balls, which the children can paint with funny and scary faces to their hearts' content. Before doing this, make small holes in the balls so that the flame of the electric tea light fits in.
Crafting with empty cases
Great things can also be made with empty cases. A great way to reuse the burned out tealights would be to make delicious lollipops for children in the empty tealight cases. First, the empty casings must be thoroughly cleaned in boiling water. Then make a small slit in the wrapper where you can then insert the lollipop stick. Now you can create the sugar mixture. Put 250g sugar in the pan, then add 1 tbsp powdered sugar and 6 tbsp apple juice. Let the sugar melt and pour into the molds. Finally, if you pour the mixture into the cleaned tealight cases, you will get tasty lollipops in the perfect round shape.
Instead of throwing away the empty tealight holders, you can simply turn them into great ones in no timeOrnaments for your Christmas treetransform. After you have removed all candle wax residue, cut the edge of the tea light cover vertically. There should be even spacing. Flatten the tea light with your hand and use the scissors to create the star tips. Finally, you can stab an interesting pattern into the star on the back. You can use a knitting needle or pencil to emboss the patterns. Simply thread the stars from tea lights and hang them up.
If you want to make a tea light holder, you can also create one out of empty tea light cases. To create the beautiful lotus flower shape, you first have to fold each cover towards the middle to create a leaf shape. Flatten the casings with the rolling pin. Take an old CD and glue the sheets into the desired shape using the hot glue gun.
