One Hundred Birthday Candles

We had a candle making party for my son Jimmy's 20th birthday party. We made all 100 candles for my mother-in-law's 100th birthday party which will be at the end of this month.















Lois was really happy to see all 100 of her candles.

She is so excited about finally turning one hundred years old!

Rather than dip one hundred candles separately, we bent 10 coat hangers to form coil-shaped holders. For the candle wicks, we tied ten 8 inch lengths of thin cotton string to each hanger.

Each group of ten wicks was dipped quickly into a number ten can of melted wax and then hung up to dry.

Large pieces of cardboard were used to catch the inevitable drips.

After the first coat of wax cooled, the wicks were dipped quickly into the wax again. Eventually, there were enough layers of wax and the birthday candles were done.