Quick, Easy, CHEAP, Outdoor Flickering Candles for nighttime

**violet** · 10-22-2009,06:49 PM

Posted this in the wrong spot so I'm reposting here. Hope I get it right. Newbie here and first post. I made the pvc candles (thanks for the info and demo) and as I experimented I came up with a really cheap, easy, quick way to make flickering outdoor candles for novices like me. My community has nighttime Halloween so these will work out perfectly. Won't work for daytime. I went to my Dollar Tree store and purchased all of the yellow pool noodles they had ($1 each). Then I bought the flickering LED battery-run tea lights (2/$1 at Dollar Tree). I cut each noodle into different lengths that I wanted for my candles- 4", 6", and 8". I then traced the outline of the LED candle on the top of one end of the noodle. I took a serrated knife and cut just inside the outline and down about 2". Then I twisted the inner 2" cut part out (this I'll use for cushioning packages I ship- like peanuts). Last step, insert the LED light. The foam nature of the noodle holds the LED light in tight. Now the beauty of this is that the top part of the yellow noodle glows brightly in the dark just like the flickering candles that people pay $5-$10 each. Everyone I've shown these to is impressed. My very last step (so far, undone) is to figure out some small stake to put in the bottom of the foam noodle to anchor it to my lawn. I don't know how to turn the flash on my flash off so I can't take a photo of the candle in the dark but the top few inches of the yellow foam glows and flickers just like a LED candle.