I’m happy to be sharing this sponsored post with you today about making a fun Halloween candle scape!
The people at Scented Candle Shop sent me some fun candles to mess around with to make a Halloween display. My favorite is probably the candy corn-scented votives, but we’ll get to that in a moment!
With just some simple candles, you can make your own spooky candle arrangement without relying on what the industrial Halloween complex thinks is festive. I got some tapers in black, white and red, a few white pillars, some floating red candles, and some scented votives. The votives were Halloween-themed, in “Candy Corn” and “Witches’ Brew” flavors.
I started by putting some black burlap/gauze stuff across the mantel. I found this stuff at Party City.
I attached it with some Quake Hold-type putty. I wanted mine to look uneven and raggedy.
Next, I put up some spider webs, also from Party City, but during Halloween season you can practically find these anywhere.
Nice! Now we’ve got the canvas on which to put the candle display. I gathered a few things in addition to the candles:
- a galvanized bucket, which I painted with brown paint and then wiped off to give it a dirty look, and then dripped red candle wax on for a bloody effect.
- 3 small glass cups with water and food coloring inside. Two of them had red food coloring for a blood effect, and one had black food coloring. Spooky.
- a small black saucer
- some plastic spiders
- a small vase with an opening large enough for a candle
- sand
- a small, flat, black tray
In the galvanized bucket I added sand so that I could stand the tapers up in awkward angles. I put several tapers in, letting them lean like they had fallen and were in disrepair.
You can see my bloody, dirty galvanized bucket there, too. Now, since the candles are leaning, there’s one candle that could conceivably drip wax onto the mantle. To solve that problem, I added a small black saucer underneath the wick. In the saucer I placed several plastic spiders, spilling out onto the mantle.
So you get this effect, and safety, too:
The centerpiece was the black tray with several candles on it. First, I lined the tray with more spider webbing. Then, I took two white pillars and dripped melted red wax onto them, so they seem to be bleeding (search “bloody candles” and you will find tons of tutorials online). One caveat: make sure you use solid red candles for the best pigmentation. In between these two tapers I put several small votives, the ones with Halloween smells like Candy Corn and Witches’ Brew. Another note, here: Candy Corn smells nice and sweet. Witches’ Brew is very spicy, so if you have anyone who is sensitive to smells in your household, I’d skip that one and go with something unscented.
In order to make sure that your tapers don’t fall over, secure them with more Quake Hold putty. You might also want to add, as I did, a small piece of wax paper underneath these candles, so the hot wax drips onto the paper and not onto the spider webs.
In the cups with colored water I placed the red floating candles. And to finish it all off, I added a black taper in a bud vase.
The whole display looked like this:
And when it was lit?
Hope you enjoyed! Happy Halloween to all!
