DIY Melted Halloween Candles

    I'm usually not very crafty but this one is easy, I promise. Maaybe I should have posted a bit sooner, but here's to hoping you have time or can save the idea for next year.

 Making fake, melted candles for Halloween decorations. I'll tell you what I used and you can go from there.

• old toilet paper, paper towel rolls 
• elmer's/school glue 
• hot glue/gun 
• tacky glue(optional)
• black spray paint

First I played around and stacked the rolls until I found a patten that I liked. I cut some of the rolls in 1/2 and then some of those halves in 1/2.

Again, you can cut however you want- in 1/3's or 1/4's- whatever strikes your fancy.

Now, onto my favorite part, the drips. I like to use both hot glue and tacky glue.

The hot glue gives it nice thick drips while the tacky glue has a nice long drip appearance but also shows up thinner when dry, so squeeze hard!

You can add all your drips at once or add some, let dry, then add some more.

Either way I add a ring of hot glue around the top of each candle stick. I think it gives it a melty, used candle look.

White drips are tacky glue, clear drips are hot glue

Spray paint black and voila- you almost have Halloween candles!

 After extensive review reading on Amazon I decided on the 12 Battery Operated AMBER LED Tealight Candles Flameless Heatless No Heat Candle Flickering Wickless Led Long Lasing Life Faux Wedding Holiday Christmas Thanksgiving Party Light Dozen They have the perfect 'flame' for spooky looking candles that look like they belong to the scary bitch witch of the house. Also, I don't have to worry about burning the apartment down!

 The tea light candles come white and I can't have white tops with black sticks so I had to keep painting.

Then I stuffed the rolls with plastic grocery bags as a prop for the tea lights to sit on. All in all, I'm super proud of this project and think it came out great!

If I could figure out how to make the drips red  that would be awesome and then I would also try painting the candles white. Any ideas on how that could work?