Homemade candle jars

To make these beautiful candle jars for Christmas you need:

• tealight candles
• glue, ruler, scissors, cutte, pencil
• gold-colored paper or fine cardboard paper
• empty and clean yogurt jar
• Plasticine (modelling clay)
• tissue paper
• transparent adhesive tape

How-to make the Fir Tree candle jar

1. Put a small piece of Plasticine on each candle. Then place them in jars and press them with a pencil.
2. Cut a stripe of gold-colored paper enough wide to surround completely the jar.
3. Draw Christmas motives on the paper (fir trees, stars …) and ask your parents to help you to cut them out with the cutter.
4. Tear tissue paper to pieces and stick them on the back of the gold-coloured paper.
5. Finally, stick the gold-colored stripes all around the jars.

How-to make the lantern

1. Place a candle in a jar as indicated for the fir tree lantern.
2. Cut out a piece of gold-colored paper wider than the jar. Then fold it in two.
3. Cut out a piece of tissue paper and stick it all around the jar.

You have made beuatiful Christmas candle jars. Now you can ligh your house for Christmas eve.