Make a cute Halloween Votive.

Finally, Mr T (our Tibetan Wind) was allowed to play in K's sand painting. He love it, running his finger through the colors and seeing how they mixed together making a new color all together. He twirled the sand, heaped it, flattened it, until it was a rainbow mixture.

When he tired of it, I picked up the glass dish K's sand rainbow had been in to throw the sand away.

"What are you doing, Mummy?" K asked in horror.

"Why? I'm throwing it away."

"But MOMMY!! You CANT!! It's SPECIAL sand!!! It's MY sand!"

"Ok... well" I managed, clearly at a loss. What on earth was I to do with a dish of murky sand?

Then I remembered something I saw years ago... a little glass candle votive that had been covered in sand. It gave off such a gentle, warm glow. Perhaps we could get just one more sand activity from our colored sand! And with a little fun, maybe I could even turn it into a Halloween craft!!

This is what we needed to make our Halloween votive candle...

Two glass candle holders, SPECIAL SAND, sticky tape, scissors, glue, paint brush.

I cut out pumpkins from the sticky tape and stuck them onto the glass votive...

K wanted a Jack-a-lantern, so we cut a scary mouth, triangle nose and triangle eyes from the sticky tape and stuck them into place.

Then we painted the votives with glue.

Rolled them in the sand...

So that they were totally covered...

And set them in the sun to dry.

Then, when the sand had completely dried, we carefully peeled the sticky tape from the glass. It was a little hard to see where the sticky tape was and, in the future, I'll use colored tape instead of clear tape to make this easier. Wonderful clear glass pumpkins and Jack-a-lanterns glowed in the morning sun!

The kids couldn't wait for the sun to set. We lit our votive candles and watched their warm glow flicker happily.
Happy Halloween !

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