Celebrating Candlemas

Candlemas is a new celebration for us but is a very old tradition.  Candlemas means "candle-less"-- because the days are getting shorter as we get closer to spring, people use this day to make candles and celebrate the fact that we wont need as many!  We celebrated "Candlemas" by making some little floating candles out of our old candle stubs.  We melted them down in a double boiler, added some red grated crayon, and then poured the wax into our little heart molds that were ready with wicks.  SO FUN!!  We had no idea how things would turn out, but they turned out super-cute.  The girls then rolled and decorated some more candles.  We finished off our project by lighting all our candles for fun and then blowing them out!!!.