Placemat Candles

We recycled old translucent placemats to create pillar candle-like covers for battery operated votives! 

Materials

1. Translucent Placemats

2. Good Hole Punch

3. Colored Brads                                                                          

4. Battery Operated Votive Candles

5. Scissors

Parents may need to help with cutting and hole punching.

Directions

1. Cut straight pieces of placemats

2. Punch two to three holes in one side

3. Roll placemat into a tube, making sure the side with holes is on top of the other side.

4. Using a marker, make dots where holes are so that holes from both sides will line up

5. Punch holes where marker-dots are with a good hole punch. (A cheap one  may not make it all the way through the placemats.)

6. Line up holes from both sides and insert brads.

7. Open brads to secure.

8. Place placemat tube over votive.  (Remember, use the battery opperated kind only!)

   

   See how the brads hold the tubes together!If you plan carefully, you can make the tubes different sizes so they will stack for storage.