Tracing Paper Votive Covers - medinapealis

Nowadays that it's soh dark when we sit down for dinner party, my girls have been asking to eat by candle flame almost every night. Candlelit meals are pretty magical, aren't they? Our recycled jar votive holders were looking pretty plain, so we made some adorable covers using staple tracing composition and art supplies from our stash.

Supplies for Trace Paper Votive Covers:

Tracing paper
Jars
Markers, oil pastels, and/Oregon watercolors
Replicate-sided videotape or gum gravel
Tea lights (regular or battery-operated)

Sheer your sheets of tracing report into strips that will fit your jars. We used gelatin jars from the reuse bin, and our strips were 3″ tall. Cut back the distance so from each one strip has just plenty overlap to tape or glue closed once it's on the jar.

Decorate your strips with markers, oil pastels, or watercolors. Each medium gives a different look, so you might want to experiment first on an extra sheet of trace theme. My girls reliable all three, and liked the brightness level of the oil pastels the scoop. Random designs, patterns, or scenes all look great!

The watercolors will be the most finicky – magnetic tape perfect your strips before painting and make trusted your brush is not too wet. We dabbed our brushes on a piece of simoleons newspaper before painting on the trace paper. The paper volition want to curl, and IT will wrinkle a trifle, just once it dries it will look beautiful!

Submit a finished strip, wrap it about the jar, and covert with double-sided tape or a little moment of gum dumbfound. Minimal brain damage a candle and look up to your sightly work! (We curst bombardment-operated tea lights so the girls could take charge of the "lighting.")

Nobelium jars around? No problem! Make a ring with your decorated strip, secure with tape, and circle over a battery-powered tea light. These looked so pretty downwards the middle of our board. Thanksgiving centerpiece, perhaps?

You could make new covers to convert with the seasons, plus this is a expectant craft for a wide variety of ages. They also look pretty unlit, and would puddle adorable vases. I just love having little glowing pieces of my girls' artwork happening our remit and mantle.

Make fun adding a weeny kid-made brightness to these dark, late-autumn evenings!

Amy

Amy is happiest surrounded by her married man, her three astonishing kids, stacks of books, and cunning supplies. With a background in psychology, early childhood instruction, and elementary teaching, Amy is a supporter of playing dress-up, digging in the dirt, and squeeze come out of the closet puddles of glue. At her web log, Allow's Explore, Amy shares her family's experiences creating, imagining, and playing together.

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