{"id":681909,"date":"2009-04-22T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0319df9.netsolhost.com\/blog\/?p=681909"},"modified":"2010-11-04T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T15:54:16","slug":"dipped-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/dipped-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipped Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun ways of learning something is doing it! I guess that&#8217;s obvious. We&#8217;ve been learning about Colonial life and the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies. And we just finished a fun project the way that the Colonists did it. We made dipped candles with beeswax. Fun! Fun!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Finished Beeswax dipped candles by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3467348076\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Finished Beeswax dipped candles\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/3467348076_b323a92974_o.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I purchased a kit of fun activities to do a long with our studies of early American life last fall, but we only recently got into the box and did one of the projects. This box was from <a href=\"http:\/\/handsandhearts.com\/\">Hands and Hearts<\/a>. Unfortunately, they are not currently selling these kits, but hopefully sometime soon they&#8217;ll be able to sell them again. However, this project isn&#8217;t so hard to do yourself, if you can get the supplies needed. All that was needed was beeswax and a long candle wick and everything else is readily available in your home.<\/p>\n<p>You just take an empty can and fill it about half full with warm water and then finish filling with beeswax. Then place the can in water in a sauce pan and bring to a simmer (not a hard boil).<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3466531957\/\" title=\"Melting Beeswax by prayingmother, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3575\/3466531957_d836706fc6_o.jpg\" alt=\"Melting Beeswax\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you dip the wicks in the melted wax and then in a can of ice water and just keep going back and forth until you have candles.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dipping Candles in ice water by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3467348698\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dipping Candles in ice water\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3630\/3467348698_f76274b253_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dipping Candles in Wax by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3467347630\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dipping Candles in Wax\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3587\/3467347630_8f72b099d0_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a very fun project, but we all agreed that turning on a switch and even changing light bulbs periodically was a bit easier than this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun ways of learning something is doing it! I guess that&#8217;s obvious. We&#8217;ve been learning about Colonial life and the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies. And we just finished a fun project the way that the Colonists did it. We made dipped candles with beeswax. Fun! Fun! I purchased a kit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782476,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681909\/revisions\/782476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}