Crafts Decorating Piller Candles

• 2 clean tuna cans, labels removed             
• Orange, black, red, and yellow construction paper (1 sheet each)
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Scissors
• White glue or rubber cement
• Glitter or glitter glue
• Toothpicks 2 White, pillar candles
• Heavy duty cardboard (12"by 12" or a 30 cm. square) or a silver tray
• Heavy duty foil
• Some pine cones and real autumn leaves

• Measure and cut an 11" by 3/4"{27.5 cm. by 1.88 cm.} strip of yellow construction paper.

• Measure and cut an 11" by 3/4"{27.5 cm. by 1.88 cm.} strip of black construction paper.

• Glue them to the outside of the tuna cans. (Each will overlap.)

• Let dry.

• Draw (or trace small, real leaves) leaves on the red and orange   construction paper.

• Cut out the leaves.

• Glue the leaves on the tuna cans. Overlap some.

• Draw the veins of the leaves on them with white glue, using the toothpick.

• Lightly dust with glitter or use the glitter glue to decorate the    leaves.

• Put a pillar candle inside each can.

• Dust the top of the candle with glitter.

• Cut a square out of the heavy duty cardboard, 12" by 12" {30cm. by 30 cm.}

• Cover the square with heavy duty foil and fold it underneath.

• Choose some pine cones. They can be painted or decorated with glitter.

• Glue real autumn leaves and the pine cones around your candle holders.

• Or, put all the items on a silver tray.

• Sprinkle with red glitter.

• In the spring, cover the tuna cans in pale green and decorate with spring flowers in pink, purple, yellow, and blue.

• Surround the candles with "grass" made of green colored           coconut and put jellybeans in the grass or small marshmallow      bunnies.

• In summer, cover the cans with light brown and decorate with real or drawn ocean shells.

• Cover the tray with sand and put paper umbrellas in the sand.

• For 4th of July, cover the cans in red with white stars and cover the tray with blue.

• Put fake "firecrackers" made of red straws and dental floss (for the fuses) on the tray.