Easy Black Flame Candle and Sign

This candle, similar to one from Disney's Hocus Pocus cost about $6 to make and took about half an hour. We started with a simple flameless candle from Walmart ($5). If you've seen Hocus Pocus, you know that the Black Flame Candle isn't actually black. It's cream colored with designs on it. The flame is black. 

If you end up making this with a real candle, we advise you not to light it. You never know what will happen.

We found this excellent art on Pinterest and changed the color of the drawings to be more similar to the dark red color from the movie. Find the original post at  https://www.playpartyplan.com/hocus-pocus-candle/.

After printing it on sticker paper, we used a clear sheet of vinyl on the front of the sticker paper to make it more durable. We used this kind of vinyl. It's the same kind we use to coat our sticker sheets, and it works quite well, even outdoors.

The next step was burning real candles. We used two little votives and poured the melted wax from them down the sides of our flameless candle to make it look more realistic.

And there you go! Just like magic!

To go with the candle, we also made a sign. In the movie, Max reads the sign out loud. Even though you can't really see the sign in the movie, we imagine it looked something like this. Lightburn is our design tool of choice when we are using our wood laser.

We laser burned the sign onto 3mm cherry plywood, and then glued it to a piece of scrap wood from an earlier project to make it look more like a museum sign. Some Danish oil gave the plywood a nice finish.

Next step, put our candle and sign on display for Halloween next month!