Homemade Fire Lighters

I've made my own firelighters out of egg boxes, newspaper and candle wax (I use the end bits of burnt down candles).

To make them, I first melt the candle wax by putting the wax in a container and then put the container into a saucepan with hot water. Whilst the candle wax is melting I scrunch up newspaper and put it in the egg boxes quite tightly.

I then poured about a table spoon of melted candle wax over each small section. Once dried (which only takes a few minutes) I cut the box up into its sections.

I then wrapped each cut section in another piece of newspaper and put them all in a basket ready for lighting the log burner.

This is good for recycling and for saving money.

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