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Valentine’s Day Craft: Make an Icy Candle Holder for Your Porch

Make Mother Nature help you with this Valentine’s activity

Hey, know what happens when the temperature dips down to -30 or so? Stuff freezes! Rather than curse her name as you bundle up like you’ve never bundled up before, why not make Mother Nature work for you? This is a great opportunity to make some icy crafts. We like this outdoor candle holder from instructibles:

You’ll need:

  • 2 l plastic bottle
  • 500 ml plastic bottle
  • rocks
  • scissors
  • pink & red construction paper (or whatever colours you so desire)
  • tealight or votive-size candle

Steps:

  1. Cut bottles across the top so they’re approximately the same height
  2. Put smaller bottle inside larger one
  3. Put a few rocks in the small bottle to keep it steady
  4. Cut out hearts or other objects from the construction paper (Makes shapes about the size of a quarter)