The Science of Making Candles

First of all we had to boil a kettle. Then we poured the boiling water into the saucepan. After that,  we put the  coloured  wax beans in the tub, and put the tub into the saucepan.  We then stirred the wax until it had all melted.      

                  Stirring the wax beans                                                    Pouring the wax into the mould

We then had to pour the melted wax into the candle mould. As it set the wax sank and the particles of the wax, moved closer together. We left it to set and later on we turned it out and

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!VOILA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - our finished candles

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