Thursday, September 22, 2016

Spooky Faced Halloween Prop Candle


Materials:
*Dollar store LED color changing candle
*Dollar store LED tealight candle
*Toilet paper tube
*Pencil
*X-acto knife
*Hot glue
*Black paint
*Paintbrush
*Soldering iron (optional)
*Solder (optional)

Directions:
*Draw a spooky face on your toilet paper tube.


*Carefully cut out the face using an X-acto knife.


*If you don't want to solder on extra length, you'll want to trim about half an inch or so off the toilet paper tube.

*Drip hot glue across your toilet paper tube, making sure not to cover up the face.

*Once the glue has dried completely, paint the inside and outside of the tube black.


*Carefully disassemble your two candles.  You'll need the part with the LEDs from the big candle and the white top part from the tealight candle.


*Paint the white cords connecting one of the LEDs to the base black.

*Solder on some extra length if you'd like.  I can't really explain this step in detail because Brian took care of the soldering.


*Glue the top LED bulb to the top part of the tealight candle.

*Slide the toilet paper tube over the tealight candle until the candle is at the top of the tube.  Hot glue the tealight candle to the toilet paper tube.  Layer on more and more glue until your candle is well secured.  Make sure the rings of hot glue are fairly level.


*Glue the bottom of the toilet paper tube to the base of the candle.

*Once all the glue has dried, paint the top part of the candle black.  Let dry.

Here's a pic of the candle in a dark room.

A video clip of the candle glowing in a dark room.

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