3 Ways To Make DIY Candle Molds - Sew Historically

You probably have DIY candle molds already at home! Make DIY candle molds with empty toilet paper rolls, metal tubes or sand!

Historically, candles were either dipped or molded. If you want to make molded candles you need candle molds. While candle molds were usually made of metal in the past, today you can find DIY candle molds at home! Look around your house and see what you can use as DIY candle molds.

Probably everyone has toilet paper rolls at home. And these work perfectly as DIY taper candle molds. In addition, they are completely free! Metal tubes are also great DIY candle molds. But don’t use molds with ridges like tin cans because then the candles won’t slide out. And did you know that you can even make candle molds with sand? So get crafty and make your own candles!

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3 Ways To Make DIY Candle Molds

Toilet Paper Rolls

You’ll Need:

• empty toilet paper rolls
• optional: scissors & DIY wheatpaste glue

You can use toilet paper rolls as they are or reshape them. For smaller candle molds, cut the toilet paper roll open. Then roll around a pencil and glue the DIY candle mold together with DIY wheatpaste glue.

Related: How To Make DIY Wheatpaste Glue

Metal Tubes

You’ll Need:

• metal tubes or cookie cutters

Look around the house for DIY metal candle molds. Metal tubes such as copper pipes or stainless steel cooking rings work perfectly as candle molds. And for small tealight-type candles you can even use cookie cutters or metal cookie molds.

Related: DIY Easy Oil Lamp From A Tin Can

Sand Candles

You’ll Need:

• sand
• water
• cookie cutter

Sand cast candles are easy to make. And what’s best, after you’ve made sand candles you can reuse the sand!

To make candle molds from sand, wet the sand with water so that you can mold it. Then press some sand flat with you hand. Place the cookie cutter on top of the sand. Here I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter but you can use other shapes as well.

Shape the sand around the cookie cutter. Press down firmly. Then remove the cookie cutter carefully.

How To Use DIY Candle Molds

You’ll Need:

• wax
• cotton string as DIY wicks
• toothpick
• empty tin can

For this candle I used a simple DIY braided cotton wick. Use thicker wicks for larger candles and thinner wicks for smaller candles.

Center the wicks with a toothpick, pencil or something similar.

Put the wax into a tin can and melt the wax in a hot water bath. I reused candle wax scraps.

Then pour the melted wax into your DIY candle molds. Let the wax set.

Carefully remove the candles from the candle molds. And light your DIY candles!

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4 thoughts on “3 Ways To Make DIY Candle Molds”

1. How do you remove the candles from tins?

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   1. You can either burn the candles in the metal containers. Or you can heat them in a hot water bath for a couple of minutes to remove the candles from the metal containers. Hope this helps! 🙂

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2. Hi, How do you remove your candle from the toilet paper roll? Do you need to line the toilet paper roll with parchment paper so the toilet paper roll doesn’t stick to the candle wax? Thank you!

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   1. Hi, you can simply tear away the toilet paper roll. No need to line the toilet paper roll because the candle wax prevents it from sticking. 🙂

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