As you may know, I can never have enough Halloween, so that’s why this year, we decided to take on a couple of DIYs to create some Halloween magic together. I was amazed at how easy this was to make and how cool it turned out. I used this candle arrangement for our dining table and Halloween dinner, and people were shocked that it was made out of pool noodles! The cool thing about this DIY is that you can get creative with it depending on what items you have available at home. Also, if you don’t have most of these items available, they are most likely found at your nearest dollar store (WIN). Keep in mind, any piece of material can be used as the base for the candle arrangement, so no need to worry if all you have is a piece of cardboard; it’ll work!
Materials
- 3-4 pool noodles. This all depends on how many candles you want.
- Scissors
- Glue gun and glue.
- Black spray paint
- 1 pack of moss
- A couple of your favorite flowers. We picked some up from our local Dollar Tree.
- 1 pack of battery-powered plastic tea light candles. We used these. I would suggest buying the remote control ones as we did because if you have to take them out to turn them off everyday… good luck to you.
- extra accessories you may have for Halloween you want to add (i.e., spider, crows, snake).
Building Instructions
- Grab your pool noodles, and using your scissors, cut them to your desired length.
- Take your glue gun and begin creating the candle drip on each foam noodle.
- Once the drip dries, it’s time to spray paint your noodles black.
- Once the noodles are dry, use your glue gun to glue them to the bottom of your tray with your desired arrangement style. We used a black plastic tray we had from previous years.
- Now that they are glued on the bottom, using your glue gun, glue them to each other.
- To insert the tea lights, you may have to use your scissors to make the insert larger. Once it’s big enough, insert the tea light. Make sure they are switched to ON before inserting them into the noodles to avoid having to take them out to turn them on.
- Add moss at the base of your tray and around the noodles. We glued some of it to make sure it doesn’t move.
- Glue any accessories and flowers you may want to add to the arrangement.
- Voila, enjoy!
Note: I spray painted some small spiders and a rubber snake gold and added it to the bottom of my candle arrangement. This is optional, obviously, but feel free to get creative with anything you may have laying around the house that you aren’t using. You also do not have to glue the noodles to a tray. You can just stack them around the table and use maybe moss to hide the bottom. I just felt gluing them to a tray and together will help keep them up.
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