Amateurs. 😉
When I made candles, we used the dipping method. You took a string wick and dipped it in hot wax over and over until it was thick enough to stand on its own. It was slow and it was painful, but darn it you felt like you had survived something epic when it was over.
Candlemaking aside, I wanted to consider crafts in general in this blog. I once spent an entire summer running a craft hut for kids aged 8 to 16 at summer camp. We made tie-dye t-shirts, stained glass with melted candy, autograph books, origami animals, clay pendants, banners, felt figures, and SO many things with popsicle sticks. Jewelry boxes, crosses, bird cages, wishing wells, pinwheels, pencil cases...I haven't been able to face a popsicle in years.
This job was a natural evolution for me, because I spent my childhood in Sunday School, making crafts, and then started teaching Sunday School...and making crafts. They were meant to be illustrations of the stories the kids were hearing in church, to make the very complicated topic of faith more palatable for little ones. I have no idea whether it worked, but I have fond memories of glitter, glue and construction paper.
It was another way of candle-making, I guess. Giving kids the materials to make their own light.
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