candle making

Candle Making

Activity started – 1^st august 2013

Activity Ended   - 29^th august 2013
 Approximate time – 8 hours

        Today was the first day of candle making activity. This activity was new for me.                     This activity came under the creativity section of the programme.

We aim to make around 100 candles and sell them to raise fund for the underprivileged children. Fund raising however would come under the service part of CAS.

Making candle is fairly easy task. I realised that making candle involves 6 basic steps:

1.      Grease the mould.

2.      Melt the wax.

3.      Add colour.  

4.      Put a wick in the mould.

5.      Pour the molten wax in the mould and let it cool.

6.      Remove the candle from the mould once solid.

Performing the activity actually isn’t that easy. Firstly the wax is melted in a double boiler. It is a special apparatus used to melt delicate substances and sometimes it is difficult to handle at a time. When I was making candle that time i thought that making candle is not very easy it requires a lot of patience and precision in you. Although that day I made only 3 candles and I was much more confident about making candles.

I knew that there would   be a candle making session today so I had planned that I would make at least 10 more candles today and that they would be different from the ones I had made yesterday. For that I consulted with my activity supervisor Mrs. Deepshri ma’am who suggested us how to make a gel candle, which requires more techniques. But when she told us that it looks more beautiful when we keep it in a glass mould and decorate it with shells it really looks very beautiful. When we are making gel candles you should be punctual while resulting in a wax because there should not come a single bubble while making you should be forth while making.

Today I completed my 8 hours of this activity and now I m feeling really very happy and I learned so much that I was erred to consider candle making a trivial task.

So many days had passed since at last I made candles