How to Make Egg Candles for Easter {In Minutes!}

Learn how to make pretty egg candles for Easter in minutes out of your broken egg shells!

I don’t like wasting things, so when my sweet toddler son dropped my precious marbled eggs I made, I knew I need to make something with them.

egg candles with broken egg shell tops with wicks inside

These lovely Easter egg candles are the result!

Making these candles was surprisingly easy, and all I had to buy were the wicks.

Easy Egg Candles

These candles would make great spring or Easter home decor, and would be fun to light on your Easter table.

Of course you don’t have to have marbled eggs to make an egg candle.

To give even simpler, leave the eggs white or brown (or multi-colored like our chickens lay).

Feel free to just dye the eggs as usual using whatever colors you would like.

You can even dye eggs with cabbage to make them a beautiful deep indigo color.

So many choices!

Did you know that you can make egg geodes from egg shells too?

Egg Candle Supplies

Plain, dyed, or marbled clean egg shells (learn how to blow out the egg insides)
An old candle (or candle wax)
Candle wicks – I used 3 1/2″, but 3″ wicks would be fine too
Small amount of clay or play dough (to plug up the hole in the egg bottom)
A pot (don’t worry, it won’t touch the wax)
Funnel

Prep the Eggs

Blow out and die your eggs if you plan on doing so, or just leave plain.

hand holding broken egg shell with white dough pressed on the inside bottom

Cut the shell how you want it to look with a small pair of scissors.

Place a small piece of clay, play dough, or whatever you’d like on the inside and outside bottom of the egg, so that it covers up the hole.

This is to prevent the wax from seeping out the hole in the bottom.

colorful eggs with wicks inside sitting in egg carton

Place the broken eggs inside an egg carton to keep them snug and straight.

Add a wick to the center of each egg.

Melt the Wax

If you will be using old candles (like I did) for the wax, then place the candles in a large pot if they are in a glass container.

Add water to the pot so that it covers about 3/4 of the glass.

glass candles with white wax inside pot with water inside

If you are using old wax pieces, then put them in another container, like a can.

Add some water so that it covers about 3/4 of the can.

If you want your wax to be colored, you can add a piece of crayon to it to give it some color.

Boil the water until the wax is melted.

Pour the Wax Into the Egg Shell

CAREFULLY remove the melted wax.

I used a grilling glove to hold the jar, and some tongs to pull the jar out.

Be careful, the glass or jar will be very hot!!

Pour the hot wax into a funnel that leads to the inside of an egg shell.

Fill each egg close to the top, leaving a little extra space.

Let the wax cool, then trim the wick down to 1/4.”

green and yellow egg candle with broken shell top and wax and wick inside

Don’t you just love this finished Easter egg candle?!

It’s just so pretty!!

I love that these egg candles all have a unique marbled design, their own blend of colors, and are all cracked in their own interesting way.

To add a little glam to these, you could even make gold leaf Easter eggs or a DIY bird nest to put eggs inside.

They are almost too pretty to burn!

Almost… 😉

This article was updated in March 2025 and was originally posted in March 2013.

Comments

Dan, Justyn, and Noah says

March 28, 2013 at 9:42 pm

such a smart lady, love them!

- Laura @ Make Life Lovely says
  
  April 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm
  
  Thanks Justyn! I just couldn’t bear to throw away all my hard work 🙂
  
Kate says

March 31, 2013 at 4:40 pm

so cute! I wish I had come across this earlier so I could have made them for tonight

- Laura @ Make Life Lovely says
  
  April 1, 2013 at 5:01 pm
  
  There’s always next year, right? 😉
  
Laura Normandin says

April 1, 2013 at 8:31 am

I am still going to do this. I think this is a great thing to put on the counter next to the sink in the bathroom or the kitchen when cutting onions.

- Laura @ Make Life Lovely says
  
  April 1, 2013 at 5:04 pm
  
  Yes, great idea! Those darn onions get me every time! My friend’s son puts on swim goggles to cut onions, haha- smart boy…
  
onel says

April 3, 2013 at 5:53 am

Hello Laura! Thanks for sharing this. These marbled egg candles are simply cute! But, as eggs are kinda round at the bottom, would these eggs stumble easily?

- Laura @ Make Life Lovely says
  
  April 4, 2013 at 3:57 am
  
  I would burn them on a candleholder, and make sure that they are nice and steady and in a secure place before lighting, just to be safe. Thanks for reading!!