How to Make a Garden Candle Stake

Candles are lovely and popular decorations both indoors and out. Homemade candle stakes that surround a garden highlight the growing flowers or vegetables for parties at dusk. Use homemade candle stakes to light a walkway on a warm spring or summer evening. When you craft candle stakes out of easy-to-find and inexpensive objects, it makes it easy and affordable to fill the garden or yard with candlelight.

Deep-dish foil pie pans
Permanent marker
Scissors
Stained glass paint
Paint brush
Hammer and nails, or epoxy glue
Wooden dowels
Sand

Instructions

- 1
  Gather different sizes of disposable foil pie pans. Deep-dish pie pans work best, but gather smaller ones that can fit inside of larger ones.
  
  Using a permanent marker, draw a flower petal pattern along the edge of a pie pan. Cut along the permanent marker lines with scissors. This makes the edge of the pan wavy and decorative. Repeat with all of the pie pans.
- 2
  Paint the foil flower pie pans with stained glass paints. Paint the inside and the outside of the pie pans. Use quick strokes to avoid lumps of paint and to ensure a smooth finish. Let the pie pans dry thoroughly overnight.
- 3
  Place smaller pie pans in larger pie pans so it looks like a flower. Gently push a small nail or flat-top thumb tack through the center. Place the point of the nail or tack on the tip of a wooden dowel. Gently hammer into the dowel.
  
  Alternatively, use epoxy glue to hold the pie pans together and the dowel on the bottom of the pie pans. Allow to dry.
- 4
  Push the dowels, or stakes, into the garden ground. Place a small handful of sand in the pie pan and a votive candle in the sand. Light and enjoy.

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