DIY Pressed Dried Flowers Candle Jar Lanterns
Come learn how to make beautiful dried flower candle holders using recycled glass jars and pressed flowers, ferns, or leaves. This dried flower craft is easy to make, and adds a whimsical pop ambiance as a table centerpiece, evening garden party, or simply around the hou Pressed flower candle lanterns are also a great homemade gift idea.
Ingredients
- Glass jars or candle hurricanes. Plain glass jars or containers with a wide opening and smooth straight sides work best.
- Pressed flowers, leaves, ferns, herbs, or other dried botanicals – which you can press yourself or buy online
- Matte mod podge
- A small craft paint brush or sponge brush.
- Tweezers (optional) – helpful for handling and applying the dried flowers to the jars.
- Twine or wire (optional) – such as jute twine, string, ribbon, plain or or coated wire to decorate the top of the jar and/or hang it. A minimum of 18 gauge wire recommended to hold it’s shape under the weight of the jar.
- Candles – such as petite tealights, votive candles, or battery operated candles. I personally prefer non-toxic unscented beeswax candles, like these beeswax tealight candles or these beeswax votive candles.
Instructions
- Get all of your supplies ready. Mod Podge dries fast, so you’ll want to have everything you need available for quick assembly.
- Using a petite paint brush or sponge brush, apply a thin layer of mod podge to a small area of the jar to decorate first. Again, the glue dries fast, so it’s best to work in small sections instead of coating the whole jar upfront.
- Apply dried flowers to the jar (or ferns, herbs, or leaves), pressing them into the wet glue.
- Next, gently paint a layer of mod podge on top of the flower(s).
- Continue working your way around the jar, applying mod podge and flowers in sections.
- Once the jar is decorated with pressed flowers to your liking, apply a final thin layer of mod podge glue all over the jar (including areas where there aren’t any flowers) to make it even and match. This will give the pressed flower candle lantern a pretty frosted appearance.
- Once it’s dry, you can adorn the top of your dried flower candle jar with twine or ribbon if you wish. See tips on how I created a hanging lantern with wire in the body of this post.
- Now add a candle and enjoy your beautiful DIY pressed flower lantern! Or, bundle them up together with a set of natural beeswax tealight candles to give away as thoughtful homemade gifts.
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