Craft projects can be great family fun. Candle making crafts are a particularly good choice. If you'd like to try your hand on a wax project, here's a good one I found at: candle making crafts

The ingredients required are: pine cones, wick or a cotton string, and wax.

Gathering the pinecones is a good excuse to get outdoors in nature. Pine trees are easy to find once you start looking.

One of the good things about this project is even if you don't regularly make candles you can use the remnants of candles you buy for this project. I suggest using paraffin wax to make the fire starters. Soy wax is likely to be too soft and sticky at room temperature to be successful in this application. I consider beeswax too precious to use for these fire starters. If I had any left over beeswax, I'd save it until I had enough to make another beeswax candle.

The method is straightforward. it's very much like dipping candles, only you'll be dipping pinecones instead of just a wick.

Prepare the cones by wrapping some string around them. Work it in between the segments of the cone. You can use candle wick, but this project doesn't offer anything that fancy.

Melt whatever wax you're using to about 170 - 190. be sure to use a double boiler].

When the wax is melted, you can take it off the heat and begin dipping the pine cones. It usually works best if you prepare the pine cones before you start, then dip them each once. After the initial dipping, you can let the wax cool slightly then dip each pinecone multiple times until a nice layer of wax as build up on the segments.

Let the wax harden, then trim the string and the fire starter is finished.

Some people want their fire starters to be a little special. If you like, you can use dye to color them or fragrance to add scent.

To discover even more candle crafts, click here.  And I highly recommend that you follow this link to learn about a complete guide to home candle making.

Have fun with these projects.