Christmas village candle jar
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A paper village silhouette wrapped around a frosted jar with spray snow and Epsom salt, lit from inside.
What You’ll Need
- A clean empty jar (coffee jars and mason jars)
- 1 piece of dark coloured scrapbook paper (charcoal grey)
- Paper pencil, ruler, craft knife (or scalpel)
- Santa Snow (spray snow)
- Epsom Salts and clear glue
- 1 x light source: tea light candle battery operated candle, or battery operated fairy lights
Equipment
- mason jars
- scissors
Directions
- Measure around the jar (for example 30 cm, the width of a sheet of scrapbook paper).
- Choose how tall you want the town silhouette to be (for example 9 cm at its tallest point).
- Draw a skyline of houses and trees on the paper.
- Cut out the silhouette with a sharp craft knife or a cutting machine. Leave an extra 1 cm tab at one end so you can glue the ends together.
- Lightly mist the top third of the outside of the jar with Santa Snow. Once dry, run a line of clear glue around the top and sprinkle Epsom Salts over it.
- Set a tea light or battery operated tea light at the bottom of the jar, then pack Epsom Salts around it.
- Wrap the silhouette around the outside of the jar and glue the two ends together.
Notes
Safety : spray only the outside of the jar (it may catch fire if you spray the inside). Santa Snow wipes off easily, so don’t handle the jar at the snowy top or mail it. With a paper wrap, a battery tea light is the safer choice.