Easy Homemade Christmas Gift: Tin Snow Flake Candle Votive

This simple tin snowflake candle votive is a fun gift that you can make for anyone at Christmas. While I recommend this craft for adults, with a little help kids of all ages could make this simple tin snowflake candle votive.

To Make This Simple Snowflake Candle Votive You Will Need:

1 Aluminum Cookie Sheet (disposable kind)
Nail
Hammer
Gel Wood Stain
Old Rag or T-shirt
Pillar Candle
Scissors
Ruler
Christmas ribbon
Hot Glue

The first step is to measure how tall your pillar candle is.

You want to cut your piece of aluminum cookie sheet to be about one inch taller than your candle. To determine how wide it needs to be simple place your pillar candle at the edge of the strip of aluminum you cut. Roll the candle along until it has made one complete roll on the cookie sheet. Now, add one inch and cut that line.

Ok, Now, cut two pieces of your Christmas ribbon to the same length as the width of your piece of tin.

Run a bead of glue on the bottom and top edge of the piece of aluminum. Place half of the Christmas ribbon on the glue. Leave the other half hanging off the edge.

Now, flip the aluminum piece over. Run a bead of glue on each edge of the aluminum. Fold your Christmas ribbon over and press down.

Now, use your nail to punch out snowflake designs in your sheet of aluminum. I like to draw out a map of dot swath a small black marker.

You could use cookie cutters as guides for moor intricate designs.

To make a snowflake simply make a cross with dots. Now, make and X overlapping with the nail. You can add simple lines coming off this simple snowflake design on the candle votive.

Now, once you have finished poking out any snowflake design in the aluminum you can rub on some wood gel stain. This will give a vintage or antique look to your Christmas candle votive. You could also paint the candle votive with some simple antique white spray paint.

Now, once all of the paint has dried on the vintage tin Christmas candle votive you can gently fold it into a cylinder. Run a bead of hot glue along one edge. Press the either edge of the snowflake candle votive.

Now, I like to set my snowflake candle votive on a small plate and set a pillar candle inside!