Wool Wrapped Candle Holders

Are you looking to create a warm atmosphere without the effort of a fire in winter? Or do you perhaps want to create a romantic setting for a quiet dinner with your special person? Candle light is a really amazing and easy way to achieve this and with this great candle holder DIY trick, you can turn a simple tea light candle into a beautiful attention grabbing centre piece.

Wool wrapped Candle Holders are beautiful, easy and offer the perfect flickering light required to make the room cosy.

There are only 5 requirements:
  • A glass Jar,
  • Wool,
  • Spray Paint (colour of your choice – be we will use white),
  • A tea light candle,
  • Newspaper.


How do you create this stunning centre piece?
Step 1: Wrap a piece of wool around the glass jar in any shape you want and secure it,
Step 2: Place the jar on a piece of newspaper,
Step 3: Spray paint over the jar until the jar is fully covered in paint,
Step 4: Wait for the paint to dry (see tin of paint for exact time – usually around 2 hours),
Step 5 : Repeat step 3 and 4,
Step 6: Remove wool from jar,
Step 7: Place candle in the jar,
Step 8: Light candle.

And….voila – your simple tea light candle is turned into a centre piece!


Along with a heater in a stormy night, your candle holder will create the perfect flicker and mood.

This is a very basic version of a Wool wrapped Candle Holder; should you be creative there are so many different ways of spicing up your jar.

  • ·       When the paint is still wet – you can roll the jar into a bowl of glitter or sand to add a different texture and dimension to your jar and is great for getting the kids involved as a weekend project.

  • ·      Rather than use only one colour – you can use a few colours to paint the jar, white, silver and gold complement each other and are very ‘in’ colours.

  • ·         You could leave the wool on the jar to create an additional 3 dimensional element.


Norgarb Properties Agent Andre Ter Moshuizen, who specialises in the Claremont area, regularly shares household tips and handy home hints. For more tips and hints click here.

Andre Ter Moshuizen: 082 602 1367   |   andre@norgarb.co.za  |  www.norgarbproperties.co.za