Ice Palace Candle Holder

If you have a daughter/granddaughter/niece/etc. then you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to 15 different versions of “Let It Go” from Frozen pretty much every day for the past several months. So if you’re sick of all things Frozen, I completely understand. But I think it’s a really cute movie and it also has some neat visuals. So I came up with a simple little abstract decoration based on Elsa’s ice palace.

DIY Ice Palace Candle Holder – what you need:

• empty jar
• flameless candle
• bamboo skewers
• blue and white tissue paper
• scissors
• hot glue

Step 1: Attach posts to the jar

For this project you can choose almost any kind of jar you’d like, as long as it has relatively even sides. I just used an old jar candle that had burned out. But mason jars, cylinders, and square vases would all work too. Depending on the size of your vase, you’ll need about 8-10 bamboo skewers or similar sticks to go around it. Use just a little bit of hot glue to attach the skewers pointing up and down arranged evenly around the base of the jar. You might want to cut them if they’re a lot taller than your jar. But a bit taller is fine.

Step 2: Cut the tissue paper

You’ll also need a few different sheets of tissue paper in shades of blue and white. Cut it to fit once around the jar, then cut some jagged points along the top. Do this for a few different sheets of tissue paper, but the edges don’t have to match exactly. I used three different colors in the one pictured, but you can add more if you so choose.

Step 3: Attach the paper

Take your darkest sheet of tissue paper and wrap it around the jar. Attach both ends to one of the bamboo skewers using hot glue. Let it dry, and then repeat for the other colors as well. Make sure that the points of each color are visible when they’re all layered on together.

Step 4: “Light” the candle

Add a little flameless candle to the inside of the jar and turn it on. It looks really cool – like a glowing ice palace type of thing – but without the risk that comes with holding tissue paper over a flame. Hooray!