13 DIY Floating Candles For Your Halloween Party
13 DIY Floating Candle Projects to Make This Year
If you’re looking to create an unforgettable Halloween party, look no further than these DIY floating candle projects!
These simple and effective projects are perfect for adding a spooky yet fun mood to any space.
With a little bit of creativity and some basic supplies, you can make your own glowing decorations that will look like they are floating in the air.
This roundup is filled with a variety of ideas, from simple crafts that use recycled materials to more advanced projects that involve custom mechanisms.
You’ll find different methods for creating the candle bodies, from using paper tubes to rolling your own from cardstock, as well as various ways to create realistic drips and hang them.
Each project offers a unique approach to help you find the perfect fit for your Halloween party.
These floating candles are a great way to welcome guests to your Halloween party, or to add a special touch to your entryway, living room, or even your garden.
They can add a special feel to any event and will keep your guests talking about your party for a long time!
This list is for anyone who wants to add a bit of magic and fun to their Halloween decorations, whether you’re a first-time DIYer or you love making things.
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Find A Frightfully Good DIY Halloween Decor List Below
This list features projects you can make using everyday items, like paper tubes and hot glue, to projects that will require you to build a custom mechanism.
You’ll find ideas for making candles from cardstock, which can be cut to any size, as well as tutorials for creating a candelabra that seems to float on its own.
Each project below has a short description to help you decide if it’s the right fit for your skills and party theme.
The projects are easy to use, with a direct link to the tutorial, so you can start making your own floating candles without any hassle.
Just scroll down to find the right project for you and get started!
Easy And Quick Way To Create Realistic Floating Candles
This tutorial is great for anyone who wants to make floating candles without a lot of work. It uses pre-made LED candles, so you can skip the step of making the candle body yourself. You simply hang them from the ceiling with a clear fishing line for an easy and realistic look.
Designer: Deanna of House of Lowe Designs
Materials Used:
- Flameless LED Taper Candles (batteries and remote are included)
- Clear Fishing Line
- White or Clear Thumbtacks
- Hammer
- Scissors
Format: Handmade
A New – And Better! – Way To Make Floating Candles
In this project, the crafter shares an improved way to make floating candles that are better than the usual method. Instead of paper towel tubes, this project uses cream-colored card stock rolled into tubes. The tutorial shows you how to add realistic wax drips with a hot glue gun and hang the candles so they stay perfectly straight.
Designer: Jen of EPBOT
Materials Used:
- Cream colored card stock, cut in sheets 5.5 inches wide by however long you’d like your candles to be
- Paper glue (optional, but handy since it dries faster than Elmer’s)
- Elmer’s/white craft glue
- Hot glue & hot glue gun
- Battery operated tealights
- Clear thread or fishing line (quilter’s thread is great)
- White craft paint
- Dremel or a heavy duty needle
Format: Handmade
DIY Floating Witch Hat and Candle Tutorial
This guide shows you how to make a complete floating display with both witch hats and candles. It lists all the materials you need, like fishing line and Command Hooks. The post also includes tips for making your display special with things like ribbons or glow-in-the-dark paint.
Designer: Tandra Nicole of Tandra Nicole
Materials Used:
- Foating witch hats
- Floating candles
- Command Hooks (or alternatively, push pins)
- Batteries (24 AA batteries are needed for the candles mentioned)
- Fishing line
- A sewing needle
Format: Handmade
Floating Flameless Candles
The crafter gives a step-by-step tutorial to create floating flameless candles. This project uses paper towel or toilet paper rolls cut to different sizes. It explains how to use a hot glue gun to make wax drips and a small ledge inside for the flameless candles to rest on.
Designer: Quinn of Colorfully BEHR
Materials Used:
- Paper towel and/or toilet paper rolls
- Paint
- Craft glue
- 2 small/detail paint brushes
- Tissue paper
- Water
- Glue gun
- Glue sticks
- Scissors
- Fishing line or transparent thread
- Needle
- Flameless candles (1 per roll)
Format: Handmade
Harry Potter Floating Candle DIY
This project is about how to make floating candles that look like the ones from the Great Hall in the Harry Potter films. This method is designed to be affordable by using scrapbook paper to form the candle body. The tutorial uses a glue gun for the dripping wax effect and battery-operated tea lights for the flame.
Designer: Bri of Parties With A Cause
Materials Used:
- LED Battery operated tea light candles
- Cream colored or “parchment” scrapbook paper
- Glue gun with opaque glue sticks
- Fishing Line
- Long and large sewing needle to fit fishing line
- Format: Handmade
Format: Handmade
DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles
This guide shows you how to make floating candles using heavy cardstock. This method uses double-sided tape to hold the tubes together and a hot glue gun for the wax drips. A key part of this project is drilling a small hole into the flameless tealight to make sure the candle hangs straight.
Designer: Heidi Kundin of Happiness is Homemade
Materials Used:
- Heavy Cardstock (in cream or ivory)
- Flameless Tealight Candles (we used the warm white color)
- Scissors
- Double-Sided Tape
- Glue (we used Elmer’s Glue-All)
- Hot Glue Gun & Glue Sticks
- White or Off-White Acrylic Paint
- Cosmetic Sponge, optional
- Dremel Tool or Cordless Drill with 1/16″ Drill Bit
- Clear Fishing Line or Clear Thread
Format: Handmade
DIY Harry Potter floating candles
This tutorial contains tips for a DIY floating candle project that is easy enough for kids. This tutorial uses toilet paper tubes and a hot glue gun for the wax drips. A special tip is to use aluminum foil inside the tubes to make a shelf for the electric tea lights.
Designer: Crystal of Surviving a Teacher’s Salary
Materials Used:
- Toilet paper towel tubes or craft tubes
- White paint
- Hot glue
- Paint brush
- Fishing line
- Remote control electric tea light candles
- Aluminum foil
Format: Handmade
Harry-Potter-Inspired Floating Halloween Candles
Amanda teaches how to make Harry Potter-inspired floating candles that are quick and inexpensive. She uses recycled paper towel and toilet paper tubes, hot glue, and flameless tea lights.
Designer: Amanda C via Hometalk
Materials Used:
- Flameless tea lights
- Hot glue
- Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
- Push pins
- Cream craft paint
- Fishing line
- Paintbrush
- Cupcake liners
Format: Handmade
Budget-Friendly Tutorial For Diy Floating Candles
This is a tutorial for DIY floating candles project that can be done for under $15. This project uses toilet paper or paper towel tubes and a hot glue gun for the wax effect. The post also explains how to hang the candles using a special sling made from monofilament string.
Designer: Leslie of Playdates to Parties
Materials Used:
- Toilet paper tubes and/or paper towel tubes
- Scissors
- Spray paint
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Pin
- Monofilament
- LED tea light candles
- Clear command hooks or clear tape
Format: Handmade
Spooky DIY: Floating Candelabra Halloween Prop Tutorial
This is a more advanced tutorial for making a ghostly, floating candelabra. It uses a motor and custom base to make the candelabra appear to hover and move. The guide also shows how to upgrade a regular candelabra with PVC candles and hot glue drips to give it a spooky effect.
Designer: VanOaksProps
Materials Used:
- Hollow aluminum rod with eye hooks
- 1×3 pine boards in various lengths
- Wiper motor
- Flat stock aluminum
- 1-inch PVC coupling
- Miscellaneous hardware like screws and bolts
- Wood glue
- CA glue (super glue)
- Angle brackets
- Rubber feet or nylon spacers
- Coupling nut and lock washer
- Candelabra
- PVC candles
- Creepy cloth
- Acrylic paint and spray paint
- Speed controller
- Weatherproof project box
Format: Handmade
Floating candles from Harry Potter
In this video tutorial, Becca Beach shows how to make floating candles using tubes from wrapping paper or paper towels. The project uses a hot glue gun to make realistic wax drips. It also details how to hang the candles with a sling and how to make a starry sky effect on the ceiling.
Designer: Becca Beach of Pins and Things
Materials Used:
- Paper towel roll or tube from wrapping paper cut into sections
- Scissors
- Hot glue/glue sticks
- Cardboard
- White, grey, red, gold & metallic blue paint
- LED candles that fit into the towel roll or tube
- Dark colored table cloths or dark thin plastic
- Nail or thick needle
- Fishing line
- Tacks
Format: Handmade
DIY Floating Candles
This method uses recycled toilet paper or paper towel rolls and a hot glue gun to make wax drips. The tutorial shows you how to make a shelf inside each roll for a battery-powered tea light and how to hang them with fishing line.
Designer: Ale of Always & Whatever
Materials Used:
- Recycled toilet/paper towel rolls
- Hot glue
- Glue gun
- Battery-powered tea light
- Fishing line
- Needle
- White acrylic paint
Format: Handmade
DIY Harry Potter-esque Hanging Candles
This guide is about making Harry Potter-inspired hanging candles and other party decorations. The post explains how to make the candles using paper towel rolls, hot glue, and fishing line. It provides details on painting the rolls and how to hang them with clear thumbtacks.
Designer: Julia of Chris Loves Julia
Materials Used:
- Empty paper towel rolls
- White craft paint
- Fishing line
- White mini muffin liners
- A glue gun
- Hot glue sticks
- Scotch tape
- Flickering LED tea lights
Format: Handmade
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