Spray bottle or bowl of cool water makes it cool into shape mich faster. I did about 300 candles for my haunt one year. I wires them all with LEDs and thanks to you, I was able to make them plug and play.
@@noobcraft6225 PVC pipe- between 1" and 3", varying heights and drip patterns. Used a 6" fence slats cut to and assembled the height of my front porch stairs. Drilled a hole under each candle, for the LEDs to go through, wired and plugged. The stairs themselves took about 60 candles each side. Everything else was clustered or floating.
Awesome tips! Combining this video with your video on how to wire the flicker light candles to an outlet rather than battery and I got myself I really good prop
I find it interesting that candles made to look real look better than real candles. Some real candles just burn straight down the center leaving a deep well. Well done, sir!
That normally happens when you light a candle, then blow it out after a short time. An example would be a Yankee Candle. I found this out from somebody else, but the instructions for the candle (yeah right, who on earth reads instructions??) say that once you light a new candle, leave it to burn for 2 or 3 hours until the top 1cm has melted fully across the top, then blow it out. When you relight it, it will continue to burn evenly. When it burns unevenly, it's called the 'tunnelling effect' and it ruins candles, so the same principle will apply to all candles. Light them, let the top 1cm or so melt, before blowing it out. Then just use as normal after that. See this video which explains all: ua-cam.com/video/VHn8dp4eMhc/v-deo.html
Looks awesome man! GREAT tip with the hot glue application. Can't say enough about the value of a good quality hot glue gun for a haunter. As always, thanks for sharing. Great work!🤘💀
In terms of avoiding patterns, like you mentioned, I go for the rule of thirds - but in an offset way, almost golden spiral to start with and randomize from there. 👍
Heat gun genus! I use light o ramma to do a show in my yard and this year I am making all my own candles to plug in so I can turn them off and on at points and I have watched tons of videos and this one I learned something new 👍🏻
Using the white glue is a good tip. I hated having to spray paint all my creepy candles with some sort of annoying oil based paint I got. It took forever. I did find some kind of special glue that cut down on strings at Michaels that was noticeably easier to work with for candles than regular glue.
@@VanOaksProps Yeah, good choices! I was thinking about different books for different "scenes"; Like spell books in a witch scene, ghost books in a haunted scene, etc. I like that this has many possibilities over just a set of candles.
Another great video! Just recently found your channel. I'm not prepared for Halloween this year, but I have a whole year to plan and make for next year! I am so excited!! Thank you
Well I fell upon your spooky Halloween UA-cam video. You’re a doll ☺️ My search was for a couple years for the haunted house Pillow. I finally found it today ! you wanna talk about a giddy girl I wanted to squeal and yes I love your phrase ✨Halloweenie ✨🧡✨
You can use any led tea candle for the light and anything that will fit inside the pipe as a way to support the tea candle. I like to hide them deeper inside so that you just barely see the “flame” when I use this method, that way you don’t ruin the effect.
I love the idea of the stacked books! I got a couple of antique books knocking about so I might borrow the idea of joining them together with screws. IIRC I've seen some haunts to that for certain props to prevent folks from stealing them.
Thank you for the compliment. I’m always surprised how often people say that I sound like him. He’s been gone for a long time, but I guess it’s so engrained in peoples memories.
@@VanOaksProps when you first speak. Exactly like him. But what better voice to accompany your how to videos. Entertaining voice for Entertaining videos. More than anything, your creativity is what makes your videos so great
I "love" this! This is so creative with endless possibilities (and I have some of these items on hand that have just been laying around in my hubby's mancave) ! I'm going to start in on this asap (my favorite holiday... Halloween!!). 😃
Fine. I'll subscribe. But only because this is amazing, and I don't trust the algorithm to show me more if I don't. (I'm not actually mad... I just have to pretend to myself for a second that I'm being forced because I already subscribe to so many wonderful makers...)
Okay but HOW did u finish them!!?? I was so excited to see the finished product. Like what exactly did you put? What did u use to prop it on the inside? Did you have to spray paint it white? Depth? On the thumbnail of the video it looks like a real flame. 😢
I went really simple and dropped a bit of a pool noodle inside each on as a platform and rested a moving flame tea candle on it. No extra painting needed beyond what I mention in the video.
I think this video was a hit, we're still chatting about it 5 minutes after it was over! We covered so many things not in the video... For example the materials list the candles were from aliexpress and I was exchanging ideas about cobwebbing using a webcaster (hot glue + air compressor) with a fellow viewer, we both liked that... I wished the chat could have kept going we were really getting into the flow when it cut off... Oh well, Anyway, thanks for making the Creepy Candles it was fun hanging out with you guys in the chat.
These look great from the side, but were they not meant to have tops to them? I mean, I guess they’d look nice with a flickering tealight but they’re candles with a hole in the middle…
You could absolutely add tops, although it’s not uncommon for candles to melt unevenly, leaving behind a void down the center. The beauty of all of this is that you can make these however you like to achieve the look you’re after with the same steps.
Who I really liked that idea putting it on the cemetery headstone using it in other areas even larger just to side comment I think it looks kind of dumb on a book I know I know that is a lot of the ways it’s shown but I would never melt three candles on top of a book I guess they didn’t have trays in the middle ages
You just drop them in there. I've always preferred seeing the light from the candle rather than the flame. If you wanted to see them, you could get some foam pool noodles, cut them down to size and paint them black. Then place the LED tea candle on top.
@@VanOaksProps You can see the flame. If you drop them in, they will fall to the bottom and you won't see the flame. And what tea light is as wide as the widest candle. Incomplete info.
Awesome! 🤘🏼💀
I love watching your videos and listening to you. Your voice reminds me of Casey Kasem.
Lol,totally agree on Casey Kasem!!!
Love the white glue idea!
BEAUTIFUL...
Love this idea...
Ummm derrr!! Start the glue from the bottom. Genius!!! That makes so much sense. Once again Derrick, thank you for changing my creative world 👻
Thanks for the prop idea.
Great job Derek!
I didn't know color glue sticks were a thing!!! Great job!
They are! Surebonder makes a ton of different ones.
@@VanOaksProps didn't you do a sponsored video with them ?! If not, you should pitch the idea to them !
@@m.maclellan7147 I have. They’re an awesome company to work with and their products are great.
Great looking candles. I really like the dancing flame lights. Thank you for sharing.
What glue from the bottom up? Genius!!
Spray bottle or bowl of cool water makes it cool into shape mich faster. I did about 300 candles for my haunt one year. I wires them all with LEDs and thanks to you, I was able to make them plug and play.
Great tip!
300 candles, my goodness. It must have looked spectacular!
@@noobcraft6225 PVC pipe- between 1" and 3", varying heights and drip patterns. Used a 6" fence slats cut to and assembled the height of my front porch stairs. Drilled a hole under each candle, for the LEDs to go through, wired and plugged.
The stairs themselves took about 60 candles each side. Everything else was clustered or floating.
@@double_digit_life.9268 do you have any photos or videos ?
@@m.maclellan7147 I don't, unfortunately. I'm not that cool.
Another incredible build!! You are a genius!!!
Thank you very much!
Great technique! Love the bottom to top hot glue method you used... and the candles on book stack final effect is perfection!
Awesome tips! Combining this video with your video on how to wire the flicker light candles to an outlet rather than battery and I got myself I really good prop
Glad it helped!
Simple and easy. I appreciate that. Thank you for sharing.
I find it interesting that candles made to look real look better than real candles. Some real candles just burn straight down the center leaving a deep well. Well done, sir!
That normally happens when you light a candle, then blow it out after a short time. An example would be a Yankee Candle. I found this out from somebody else, but the instructions for the candle (yeah right, who on earth reads instructions??) say that once you light a new candle, leave it to burn for 2 or 3 hours until the top 1cm has melted fully across the top, then blow it out. When you relight it, it will continue to burn evenly. When it burns unevenly, it's called the 'tunnelling effect' and it ruins candles, so the same principle will apply to all candles. Light them, let the top 1cm or so melt, before blowing it out. Then just use as normal after that. See this video which explains all: ua-cam.com/video/VHn8dp4eMhc/v-deo.html
Dude!! Those are phan-tabulous!!
Very creative! awesome video!
Those are amazing! I never thought of using white glue. Perfect!!! ❤️
Awe I love this one! Great way to use up scrap pieces of pipe from other projects :) wonderful video! ❤️
I go right to a blowtorch with my welding glove,hahaha. I drip resin on mine cause hot glue tends to move around in the heat of the storage shed.
Awesome!!!! Thanks for the great tips & Info!!!! 😮🤔👍😎🎃
Looks awesome man! GREAT tip with the hot glue application. Can't say enough about the value of a good quality hot glue gun for a haunter. As always, thanks for sharing. Great work!🤘💀
oh! Smart way to do the drips. Mine always looks so weird...
Love the effect!
What kind of led tea light candles did u use ?????
There's a link to the tea lights I used in the video description.
Soooooo cool. Great tips! Thanks!
You are so welcome!
crazy awesome!
In terms of avoiding patterns, like you mentioned, I go for the rule of thirds - but in an offset way, almost golden spiral to start with and randomize from there. 👍
I like these, we will be making hundreds of candles this year. Can’t wait to try this method.
yay i am so excited for halloween season!!!
Heat gun genus! I use light o ramma to do a show in my yard and this year I am making all my own candles to plug in so I can turn them off and on at points and I have watched tons of videos and this one I learned something new 👍🏻
WOW better than Dollar Tree candles. 😃
Using the white glue is a good tip. I hated having to spray paint all my creepy candles with some sort of annoying oil based paint I got. It took forever. I did find some kind of special glue that cut down on strings at Michaels that was noticeably easier to work with for candles than regular glue.
Do you know the name of the glue sticks?
Cool
This would be really cool with some creepy titled or paranormal book covers. Love the way this turned out!
Did you catch the titles of the books?
@@VanOaksProps Yeah, good choices! I was thinking about different books for different "scenes"; Like spell books in a witch scene, ghost books in a haunted scene, etc. I like that this has many possibilities over just a set of candles.
Another great video! Just recently found your channel. I'm not prepared for Halloween this year, but I have a whole year to plan and make for next year! I am so excited!! Thank you
Looks great but how did you set the tea-lights in??
I used pieces of foam to set the height and dropped them into place.
Wow, your voice sounds similar to Casey Kasem’s voice. You would be really good at narrating stories, especially mysteries!
Great craft idea!
Great tutorial thank you!
You should make a shirt that says "Achieve the desired look"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂 yesss! 👏👏
but most importantly "go make something"
Or “I understood the assignment”
That is so iconic. Van Oaks, you haveeee to make a shirt like that.
Cool!
Very cool, Derek! I've done this with pool noodles too, but found they melted with the hot glue, so may have to use PVC instead next time. Lol.
this is amzing .. thanks alot ..
Thank you!
I've done this, but with paper towel rolls and fishing line to make them float. 🕯
Great idea!
Well I fell upon your spooky Halloween UA-cam video. You’re a doll ☺️ My search was for a couple years for the haunted house Pillow. I finally found it today ! you wanna talk about a giddy girl I wanted to squeal and yes I love your phrase ✨Halloweenie ✨🧡✨
Those creepy candles look fantastic and real I might just try making a few. Thank you so much for sharing from Australia 🇦🇺🦘🇺🇸
My Van Oaks shirt is on the way!!!!
Just found your channel via a UA-cam suggestion; love the candles!!!!
Welcome and thank you!
That turned out great. What led lights did you use? And how did you get them to sit at the top of the candle?
You can use any led tea candle for the light and anything that will fit inside the pipe as a way to support the tea candle. I like to hide them deeper inside so that you just barely see the “flame” when I use this method, that way you don’t ruin the effect.
It would be fun to make an actual candle mold of this with the drips built in
what did you use for the light source? never seen those before.
They're moving flame LED tea candles. Here's a link: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DlFtzwL
I love the idea of the stacked books! I got a couple of antique books knocking about so I might borrow the idea of joining them together with screws.
IIRC I've seen some haunts to that for certain props to prevent folks from stealing them.
Absolutely. Some people have sticky fingers and you have to do what you can to prevent things from walking away.
Love your prop videos! How do you prop up the tea candles with the 3” pvc?
Thank you! I’ve found that pool noodles or scrap pieces of foam work well.
ok question.... how do you put the tea light in so its up top and not on the books as the pipes are hallow.
You can honestly use anything you’ve got around. A piece of pool noodle, left over foam, etc.
Is it just me, or does his voice have the sound. Like he should be announcing the long distance dedication on Casey Kasem's top 40 count down
Thank you for the compliment. I’m always surprised how often people say that I sound like him. He’s been gone for a long time, but I guess it’s so engrained in peoples memories.
@@VanOaksProps when you first speak. Exactly like him. But what better voice to accompany your how to videos. Entertaining voice for Entertaining videos. More than anything, your creativity is what makes your videos so great
That's his name! I was racking my head trying to remember what that man's name was. All I could remember was his voice and how tan he was.
I think Kasem might have had that skin tone naturally. Maybe middle east. He was the voice of Shaggy also.
Do you know if a small led candle that can be used in a thinner PVC candle?
there’s a variety of sizes of led bulbs that could be used. 5mm is probably the easiest, small led to find. I get mine from lighthouseleds.com
@@VanOaksProps Your videos are really great and l appreciate your getting back with me!
Beautiful work, so you use the glue sticks to create the wax drippings? And do they stay like that forever or do they brake or melt after a while?
They stay just like that forever.
I "love" this! This is so creative with endless possibilities (and I have some of these items on hand that have just been laying around in my hubby's mancave) ! I'm going to start in on this asap (my favorite holiday... Halloween!!). 😃
Fine. I'll subscribe. But only because this is amazing, and I don't trust the algorithm to show me more if I don't. (I'm not actually mad... I just have to pretend to myself for a second that I'm being forced because I already subscribe to so many wonderful makers...)
🤣🤣🤣
Okay but HOW did u finish them!!?? I was so excited to see the finished product. Like what exactly did you put? What did u use to prop it on the inside? Did you have to spray paint it white? Depth? On the thumbnail of the video it looks like a real flame. 😢
I went really simple and dropped a bit of a pool noodle inside each on as a platform and rested a moving flame tea candle on it. No extra painting needed beyond what I mention in the video.
You sound a little like Casey Kasem. All you younger folks can google the name. Very cool technique.
💚💚💚
Just a question. Why do u mostly use plastics and other chemical hazardus materials and not wood or paper?
I use what's most readily available to me.
Most importantly go make something that’s great I love that
How wax drips would be a much easier way to do a Chianti bottle/candle holder!
I've been wondering for a while who you sound like. I finally figured it out, you have same tone and monologue as Dick Clark.
From a top view it kinda looks like it'd be a hidden Mickey!
😍😍
I think this video was a hit, we're still chatting about it 5 minutes after it was over! We covered so many things not in the video... For example the materials list the candles were from aliexpress and I was exchanging ideas about cobwebbing using a webcaster (hot glue + air compressor) with a fellow viewer, we both liked that... I wished the chat could have kept going we were really getting into the flow when it cut off... Oh well, Anyway, thanks for making the Creepy Candles it was fun hanging out with you guys in the chat.
Yeah, I got booted from chat as well. I guess they only give a certain amount of time. It's always fun to exchange ideas with fellow haunters!
These look great from the side, but were they not meant to have tops to them? I mean, I guess they’d look nice with a flickering tealight but they’re candles with a hole in the middle…
You could absolutely add tops, although it’s not uncommon for candles to melt unevenly, leaving behind a void down the center.
The beauty of all of this is that you can make these however you like to achieve the look you’re after with the same steps.
I've made my own gravestones and rotting hands, but not my own candles. Thank you!
Who I really liked that idea putting it on the cemetery headstone using it in other areas even larger just to side comment I think it looks kind of dumb on a book I know I know that is a lot of the ways it’s shown but I would never melt three candles on top of a book I guess they didn’t have trays in the middle ages
You did not tell how you added the tealights. Bad tutorial.
You just drop them in there. I've always preferred seeing the light from the candle rather than the flame. If you wanted to see them, you could get some foam pool noodles, cut them down to size and paint them black. Then place the LED tea candle on top.
@@VanOaksProps You can see the flame. If you drop them in, they will fall to the bottom and you won't see the flame. And what tea light is as wide as the widest candle. Incomplete info.