how to make the ice-candle :)

Last Wednesday, 28 January 2015 there was ice candle event in my campus. I became one of the volunteer staff to help my friend, Mihokosan to prepare this event. The team was preparing around 300 ice glass to be performed on that day, and it turns out that our hard work became so amazingly success :) The ice candle lights so beautifully. Some of my friends asked me how to make the ice candle, and now i will tell you how to make the ice candle.

Things to be prepared:
1. small can.
    It can be cola or coffee or tea used can (the slimmest the easiest :D)

2. Plastic or paper glass or used milk carton ( for the milk carton, cut it into half to make it looks like a pot)    

3. decoration to be put inside the ice, it can be colorful beads, watercolor paint, colorful wire, anything that you want as long as it is small.

beads

colorful wire

watercolor paint

another beads

small flower beads

 4. small candles, it can be white or any colors

5. Chopstick
6. Tape and scissor
7. Freezer :D

How to make :

1. Pour water into a glass, half glass is okay.

2. Put the can in the middle on the glass, make sure that the can is not touching the glass side and also the glass bottom, so it should be like floating. Use tape to help it firm.

 3. Decorate the water with beads or give color with water color, to make the beads in a proper place that you want, use chopstick to help you

4. Put the glass into the freezer until the water freezing.
5. After it become freezing, pull out the tape. And to pull the can from the ice, just pour HOT water inside the can, shake the glass for a while aaanndd fhoilaaa you can easily pull the can :)

6. Put the glass back to the freezer until the mold become more freezing hihihi

7. torn the paper glass, you can use scissor to help you

 8. Put the candle inside the ice glass and fire it :) beautiful right ? :D

one of my best creation hihi

I was satisfied with the result it was so amazingly beautiful

You can watch the news about the event here:

http://www.aab-tv.co.jp/news/aab_shownews.php?eLine=4&eGr=0


If you finally decided to make the ice candle, please show me the result :)