Waxing Leaves
We waxed leaves today. I love having a stash of leaves preserved for our mantel at Thanksgiving. I save all my beeswax candle stubs throughout the year and then add them to a big juice can of wax. I also have an old pot that I use because it is inevitable that wax will get on it and in it. It's my own little double boiler system for wax.
Once the wax is hot, I move it to a table covered with newspapers and let the kids have at it. Some of the leaves were pressed, others were fresh.
Aren't they beautiful?
We do this, too! What a fun afternoon project you and your girls enjoyed together. Your leaves came out really lovely. The colors are brilliant.
What a lovely thing to do ! I've never seen this before.
What excactly do you do with the waxed leaves? Do you use them for decoration?
I love those colors !
My 2nd grader just did this craft the day before Thanksgiving. She actually made a wall hanging and it is so beautiful. What a lovely idea.
Wow, how fun. I'll have to try this.
Love this idea! Thank you for sharing. We'll have to try that, the leaves are just gorgeous afterwards.
yes they are beautiful, we'll try that too
I just camehere from crafty crow. Thanks so much for posting this. I am so excited to try it out!
Love it!
These are beautiful, as is your blog. What a pleasure to find it.
I came here from Crafty Crow. Thank you for sharing this! My kids and I love to glue autumn leaves to a poster board to hang on our walls, but the colors always fade so quickly. We'll enjoy it so much longer with waxing first - and I had never heard of doing that before now!!
Popping in from the Crafty Crow....love, love, love this idea! I am linking to you too!
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
saw this on the Craft Crow. great idea, we'll give it a try!
We made piles of these two years ago to decorate the lunch tables at my son's bar mitzvah and they were gorgeous!
We've done this for several years with parafin wax or, by putting the leaves between two sheets of wax paper and ironing it. I never thought of beeswax! :D
Lovely! Too bad we are in TX and it was over 90 F today...not so much incentive for those leaves to start changing...yet...
Love waxed leafs. Hey Crafty crow put you on her web site - cool!
Those are amazing.
I saw them on Crafty Crow and can't wait to try them at our house!
have you ever tried it with flowers? just curious! the leaves are gorgeous
I'm SO going to do this! I love fall anyway, but I'm also trying to come up with cute (but cheap) decor for a fall ladies' brunch I'm hosting in November. This is perfect! :-)
Thanks for the great idea! I just tried this with my 5 and 3-year-olds and we had a blast! They turned out great!
We did that this week too! Lots of fun!
Hi! The leaves look wonderful and I want to try this too, but I have a question. I may have gotten a little lost in translation, beeswax is the yellow wax from simple candles? I am not sure which is the difference between parafin wax and beeswax and which one I could use. Would you be so kind to give me some advice?
Such fun! I love the gentle glow of the beeswax. Last year, we also made leaf fairies with our waxed leaves. http://goldensunfamily.blogspot.com/2008/10/kindergarten-fun.html
I love the pretty color range that you preserved! Ours gradually lost color, despite the wax, maybe because I hadn't pressed them ahead of time for long enough?
Happy Autumn!