Impress your guests with this beautiful easy to make scented candle centerpiece project. Place it prominently on just about any table…dinner table, coffee table, end table, or even adapt it for a fireplace mantle.
Holiday Scented Candle Project
Materials:
- Table runner, table cloth, or placemat (solid or non-busy patterns work best)
- 2 large apples
- 2 scented votive candles
- Assorted pine cones
- Fake snow
- Pine boughs (left over from trimming the bottom of the Christmas tree)
- Assorted Christmas picks
- Holiday wired-edge ribbon or a string of golden beads
- Optional decorative mittens
- 2 squares of scrap cardboard about 4″x4″ to glue to bottom of apples
- Glue gun
- Paring knife
- Small spoon
Instructions:
This is a free-form arrangement placed right on top and in the center of a table runner or table cloth. It’s easy to do, but requires a little bit of assembly.
Pull any stems off the apples. Next, you’ll need to hollow out the center of the apple to make a receptacle for the votive. To do that, take a scented votive candle and place it on top and centered on the apple. Using a pen, trace the candle’s circumference onto the apple.
Stand the votive on a flat surface and stand the knife blade next to it. Mark the candle’s height on the blade so you’ll know how deeply to cut into the apple. Carefully insert the paring knife vertically into the apple on the traced line. Push the knife into the apple up to the marking on the blade. Remove the knife, rotate the apple a little and insert the knife again about 1/8″ from the first cut. Keep doing this until you’ve gone completely around the traced circle. Now scoop out the center of the circle. You might want slash several X’s with the knife in the center of the circle to section up the core for easier removal.
Then insert the candle into the hollowed out apple. If the hole’s not big enough, scrape out a little more.
To keep the apples from rolling off the table, hot glue their bottoms to a cardboard square.
Set the assembled apples on the table and arrange the pine boughs around them. Now would be a good time to loosely weave the wired-edged ribbon or beads throughout the branches. Insert the assorted Christmas picks into the branches. Trim with pine cones and sprinkle the fake snow.
Light the candles, but make sure none of the decorations or pine boughs are near the flame.
Suggested Mia Bella scented candles:
Angel Wings, Antique Lace & Linen, Apple Berry Cobbler, Apple Cinnamon, Bayberry, Christmas Essence, Christmas Pine, Cinnamon, Country Spice, Eucalyptus, French Vanilla, Fresh Apple, Gingerbread, Holiday Cookies, Holiday Memories, Hollyberry, Hollybery Balsam, Home For The Holidays, Hot Apple Pine, Mountain Pine, Mulberry Spice, Mulled Cider, Night Before Christmas, Norwegian Wood, Oranges and Clove, Peppermint Truffle, Snowberry Pine, Spice Shoppe, Spiced Cranberry, or Tahitian Spiced Vanilla.
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This is an easy to make candle project for Valentine’s Day. Make these votive roses for your friends, daughters, cousins, mother, grandmother, co-workers, babysitter, teachers, hair dresser, boss, and more. 
