A mold for making spooky ghost candles. Great for Halloween!
You can also fill with chocolate if you use food grade filament.
You can tie a knot in the end of the wick (if needed) and fit that into the slot below the head.
Put the two halves together, and hold them together with a couple of elastics in the grooves.
Fill the mold with melted wax and shake as you do to ensure wax flows into the ghost's arms.
Once full, allow to cool at room temperature. If the wax shrinks and there is a hole in the wax at the funnel, top up with a bit more wax.
Once cool, I had to put in the freezer for a while to further shrink and solidify the wax.
Once cooled, remove the elastics and carefully pry the mold apart.
The candle may stick to one half (it did for me), gently pull it out by the wick on each end (use tweezers to get the wick at the head out of the slot).
If the arms break when you remove the candle, you can re-attach them using a bit of heat to soften the wax.
Finally, if you tied a knot in the wick at the head, trim with scissors or nail clippers.
If you are using chocolate instead of wax to make candy ghosts, skip the wick. Most of the rest should be the same, but you'll have to trim off any chocolate that leaked out the wick hole in the head.
If candle wax is expensive where you live, buy some large cheap candles to melt. I got one large enough to make several ghosts at Dollarama for $1.50 (CDN).
The candle looks a lot better than the photo shows, I was lazy and used my phone instead of my camera.
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