Best flameless candles according to redditors

Don't paint red at all, buy a bunch of these electronic candles and they flicker and provide light under the black cotton and look like fire.

Inspiration/instructions


I think you could easily do these for christmas and birthdays and such too!

• I got my mason jars at hobby lobby when glassware was half off, I will look but I think they were about $1.25 each.
  
• I used less than a whole pack of tissue paper in each color. ( 99 cents each, you could wait till papergoods are half off for even cheaper)
  
• I had some black cardstock laying around, so that was easy.
  
• I used glitter modpodge because I wanted glitter. To make it even cheaper you could use elmers (and glitter if you want)
  
• I'm going to get some cheap ribbon or felt for around the lids but I have been lazy :P
  
• I got these tea lights, but you could use real ones for way cheaper

I use these lights.

https://www.amazon.ca/Frostfire-Mooncandles-Weatherproof-Outdoor-Changing/dp/B00B1BSAOA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1485411343&sr=8-5&keywords=remote+control+candles

https://www.amazon.com/Flameless-Flickering-Battery-Powered-Birthday-Decoration/dp/B0792QKS8N/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1539904861&sr=8-16&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=flickering+led+tealight+candles

Maybe take one of these apart and put the guts into a construct surrounded by cotton?

I'm not much of a flowers person either, and the only flowers in my wedding are the bouquets and boutonnieres. I am having real flowers, but I'm lucky enough to have some connections to a florist so the flowers are fairly cheap. Also, when I was in a wedding where the bride used real flowers, the smell of some of the flowers could be so relaxing during the craziness of the day. Since everything leading up to my wedding has been so stressful, I just wanted the flowers to be something that would certainly be soothing should I stress out. :)

For our centerpieces, my fiance and I are renting mirrors from our reception hall and placing these floral bowls, filled with AquaGems and a submersible LED light underneath the AquaGems, on top of the mirrors. We had seen this done at another wedding, and it added a really neat glow to the room...and truthfully, the AquaGems are really fun to play with...

My soon to be mother-in-law was the only one upset that we aren't doing floral centerpieces, but I think it's because my bridesmaids and I have to be responsible for assembling the centerpieces and dropping them off at the reception hall, rather than a florist doing all the work. No one else has actually cared about that, though. Since my fiance and I are paying for everything ourselves, doing our centerpieces for 35 tables is way cheaper than floral centerpieces, especially since we were able to find all the pieces we needed in bulk or at Dollar Tree. After renting the mirrors, buying the materials (including shipping and tax costs), we averaged paying about $5 per centerpiece.

Vinkor Flameless Candles Battery Operated Candles 4" 5" 6" 7" 8" 9" Set of 9 Ivory... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D266SGW/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_DmUEDbX188T94

What always worked for me was setting a proper atmosphere. That'll do a hell of a lot of the work for you.

Dark and stormy night? Play the 'Dark and Stormy' audio. Find other sounds that will help set a proper ambiance. Personally, I'd say never use anything with music, even minimal music. We're "trained" to listen to music, even if it's very minimal, so as soon as there's anything that isn't "natural sounds", it gets harder for people to concentrate and focus because their attention is constantly being pulled by the music.

Want to take it a step further? Sessions only happen at night. No room lights; each player gets a couple LED candles to see their character sheets, with a few extra around the table for map purposes.

Strict no-distractions rule! No technology that the DM doesn't have full control over. That means paper character sheets and printed out spell cards, no apps!

Make some props, too! Make a rough copy of a map, rip the edges, crumple it up, uncrumple it, wipe it down with a tea bag and crumple it up a bit more. Wax seal some envelopes with notes ahead of time.

The story/elements almost don't matter if you can set a proper mood for everyone. You could be doing a generic assault-on-a-goblin-camp, but if you set the right tone and mood in the room, it'll push the players in the direction you need.

Another thing that helps with horror adventures is to use the rule "describe, don't tell". Telling the players "4 goblins come out of the bushes" is nowhere near as effective as "you suddenly hear the bushes to your right rustle. A snapping twig to your left. Four short, filthy humanoids come out of the bushes, their eyes glinting in the dim torchlight."

Amazon has 100 for 40$

ebay has 240 for 77$

I know someone who had a cat who knocked over a candle. The house burned to the ground. Don't mix candles and cats if you don't want to be homeless.

Buy a flameless candle instead.

This might be an odd addition to the list but Amazon has a set of remote controlled LED tea lights that light up different colors. I have heard of others using tea lights to track Inspiration. So I thought it might be a cool tool that others might be interested in.

https://www.amazon.com/Flameless-Flickering-Decorative-Christmas-Decorations/dp/B07HQMH97P/ref=sr_1_49_sspa?keywords=Dungeons+and+Dragons&psr=PDAY&qid=1563215233&s=prime-day&sr=1-49-spons&psc=1

Those are crap, I have one of these and one of these and a couple sets of essential oils from this company, and they make every room in my house smell fantastic. You put some water in the bowl of the diffuser, and some drops of oil, and it lasts for days. Way better than candles for how far they throw the scent, and they don't burn anyone or the house down. If he just wants the light to flicker like candlelight, I have these and they work great for mood lighting while not burning the house down as well.

What about LED candles? They make pretty convincing ones now.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002KCO7B4/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/189-7850459-8189039

u/PumpkinGuy19 turned me onto these.

Here's a video he posted showing how they look.

My friends threw me a HP birthday party a few years ago. Some decor things can take some craftiness, but they are great for a limited budget.

If you can get yourself to a dollar store, pick up a bunch of those small battery operated tea lights. (like these). And then wrap them with a foot of thread, fishing wire, whatever you have, tape the thread to the ceiling. voila! floating candles! (My friends tied them up with balloons, but that was an added expense)

Put a sign for the Ministry of Magic on the toilet.

Snacks! My favorite part of the party was that there were numerous different snack bowls, each labeled with a Harry Potter related snack name. Pretzel rods are now magic wands. You don't specifically need Bertie Bots every flavor beans, you can pick up regular ol' jelly beans. If you or a friend is a decent baker, you can make pumpkin spice cookies for pumpkin pasties, make brownies in a cupcake tin and call them cauldron cakes - and of course, Hagrid's 'Happee Birthdae' cake. And of course the butterbeer - alcoholic or non, depending on your age.

Play some Harry Potter soundtrack music, and make everyone wear house colors - and if they have, scarves/robes/etc.

flickering led tea lights. disassemble and move the led into the lantern.

https://www.amazon.com/Flameless-Flickering-Battery-Powered-Birthday-Decoration/dp/B0792QKS8N

https://www.amazon.com/Submersible-Waterproof-Underwater-Flameless-Halloween/dp/B07T7TJV8S/

I like to stick to the ones that use the CR2032 batteries, those tend to last a long time and the replacement packs are cheap. I tend to notice that the smaller "tea light" variety ones are always dimmer when you try to get that yellow candle flicker style and it's really not unless you go for the white lights that you really get a bright LED light. I use these: http://www.amazon.com/Instapark%C2%AE-Battery-powered-Flameless-Tealight-Candles/dp/B0064RFHHO/ for most of my shelf decorations and fake jack-o'-lanterns, they aren't the brightest but I think they do a nice job.

So, I basically eye balled all the measurements, but the basics are:

I ordered this image from Walgreens on glossy paper 5x7 image. I then cut the black bars from top and bottom and used the height of the image to estimate the height of the vertical walls I would need.

I had cardboard laying around, so I used the height + (thickness of the cardboard x2) to estimate the height and the length I made about 7". This way I was aiming for John to end up in the middle of the box while the edges of the photo touching the edges of the back. So I cut those out.

Once I had the virtical walls, I bent the photo between them to estimate the top and bottom of the box, penciled out two rough rectangles and cut those out for the top and bottom walls.

I got some silver paper from AC Moore, but I also considered just wrapping it all in tin foil. I cut the paper to the same dimensions as my walls and hot glued them to all sides. Then I hot glued the the box together.

At this point I had to shave a few millimeters from the photo in order for it to fit just right, so I used a paper cutter and it took a few attempts. I got it to where it was movable in the box but stayed put.

I had these candles laying around so I took one apart and after carefully cutting the flame in the photo using an exacto knife I pushed the LED through. Because the hole is just the right size the rest of the candle on the other side just hangs there.

Once I got the photo and the silver paper, the whole thing took about 20-30 min to put together. I'm sure if you take your time it'll come out must less messy. :)

Hope this helps!

I think you might want to buy these for the future..

https://www.amazon.com/Vont-Flameless-Realistic-Naturally-Flickering/dp/B00T28FWVS/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1549069079&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=tea+lights+led&psc=1

I looked at your other post. A few people noted some safety and liability issues that I agree with. If you are now concerned about sparks, as you mentioned in another post, I don't think that this is safe.

You could have done battery powered, remote controlled lamps here. Something like this has much less risk.

Ok, here's a tutorial of sorts. These were super easy to make, and I am not very crafty.

Materials:

7" vases - Dollar Tree

9" vases - Dollar Tree

10.5" vases - Amazon

Glass stones - Amazon

Submersible LED lights - Amazon

Calla lilies - Amazon
I ordered orange and navy. My wedding color blue is royal blue, not navy, but as you can see in the photos they are pretty light for navy, and are passable for royal blue.

The flowers come in a variety of colors, so if you're into calla lilies you can make these work. They have wires in the stems, so I just bent the stems up and played around with height and color combos until I had a set up I liked. Then I used those flowers as a template to cut the other flower stems to length with wire cutters.

The calla lilies float if they are not weighed down, so I hot glued the end of each stem to one of the glass stones and buried it under the rest of the stones. Worked perfectly, and you can't see it in the final set up.

The Dollar Tree vases are FANTASTIC, and I suggest looking there first no matter what type of vase you're looking for since they have a variety. They didn't have the taller vases I needed so I had to spend a bit more to get them from Amazon, but kept total costs to about $250 for 10-12 centerpieces. I don't think there's an appreciable difference between the Amazon vases and Dollar Tree vases, they go very well together.

My original plan was to use floating candles instead of LED lights, but I really liked how the shadows are cast with the uplighting from the submerged LEDs. It also makes a little bit of a blue glow through the stones. I am making another one-vase decoration (same thing, just the medium-sized vase instead of 3) with a floating candle next to a written memorial for my dad and my fiancé's and my grandparents who have passed. The point is floating candles definitely work for these if that's your thing.

Anyway, I'm happy to provide more info by request, though I think this pretty much covers it!

http://www.amazon.com/Instapark%C2%AE-Battery-powered-Flameless-Tealight-Candles/dp/B0064RDS7A/ref=lp_3734421_1_4?s=furniture&ie=UTF8&qid=1382288143&sr=1-4

Yeah, that seems like just a small rgb led controller board. Why it'd be in a normal candle that you actually set on fire is the weird bit.

I'm guessing it was made so that the entire length of the candle would glow along with the flame on top. Although how you're meant to activate it, I don't know, and why you didn't see it working ... Where did you get it from? Maybe somebody activated it and it ran the battery down.

Seems kind of unnecessary.

edit: https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Sensitive-Activated-Battery-Free-Christmas/dp/B07KK6SG9N

still seems unnecessary.

I like your low-waste goal, but consider that the re-usability of these things will be higher if you get actual tiny LED tea lights so you can turn them on and off. These are cheap and are basically the same LED, same CR2032 battery, but in an attractive housing with an on-off switch: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064RDS7A


They'll be much more reusable, nearly the same price per item, and only a tiny bit more plastic in each one. (I've bought that particular product from Amazon and they worked great-- each tea light lasted several nights before needing to replace the battery.)

I'd suggest you get flameless candles. Look like real candles and a real flame but LED. Often have a remote control too.

I'd suggest 3 (which you'll find is often what you use when decorating) similarly sized and shaped but one with a different color. Link below:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CK2SQ54/

I've used flameless candles in the past (in fact still use 2 on my altar) they even have ones that flicker, there's also flame lamp thingies (Something sorta like this), I've also heard of people using some kind of flame app thing on their phone though I have no exp in that

I love the candles - I really wanted ones that gave off a realistic flicker and warm glow. I got both the LED tealights and the tealight holders (which came as shown, no painting necessary) from Amazon.

While technically electric as they run on batteries, these flameless tea candles are nice. 36 of them for ~$10 on amazon and I just put a few around the house where light is needed (bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms). They will last for several days running 24/7 (I've tested them).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQ1Q3R1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have some light color changing candles I bought off Amazon. They're amazing, set such a fun mood and they also come with a remote :) I am in love with them and my boyfriend likes them too!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B1BSAOA/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_0c6MwbVQN130H

Edit: Amazon auto corrected to amazing.

Did bodyscan and sitting meditation today. Bodyscan I tried to relax as much as possible to the point I was practically asleep, that's hard for me since I tend to fixate on "doing things right" ... also bought wind chime and forest sounds, and the sound of summer rain (both off Amazon) to help relax. Also will be incorporating color therapy as blue light helps relax me, using LED candles (http://amzn.com/B00B1BSAOA.) I got through almost the whole metta meditation, up until the neutral person, I just can't do meditating on people I don't like yet.

I got these from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Stunning-Flameless-Light-Candles-Battery-Powered/dp/B00T28FWVS/ref=zg_bs_5486434011_1

Maybe OP can see about two small single LED lights that are normally used for decorative lights? Perhaps tape a couple of them together in the distance the sensor bar is and it may work? The LED kludge may not look pretty but might be serviceable.

I do like the thought of the atmospheric tea candles. Wait... Aren't there fake candles that are battery powered? I don't know if those would be powerful enough... You've got me curious to check Amazon now!

Edit: Do you think something like These Battery Tea Lights could be bright enough? Or there's this LED Bar Night Light where you might be able to use a thick material to tape around the center lights so only the two opposite ones are working, but they might shine in your eyes... I'm sure a thick material with small holes poked through to let some light out might work.

Hell with it, it's cheaper to go with this Wireless Wii Sensor Bar from INSTEN. I'm seeing 6.98 USD and you could just throw in some batteries and turn it off when you're not using it to save power.

i got you.

1. If you are able to have get out with/without the kids, go to the movies. a good date movie would be Aladdin this weekend. If you guys are into action movies, John Wick 3 is awesome (but not for kids). Or Avengers Endgame if you're into Marvel and haven't seen it yet. Plan this some time after lunch time.
   
2. If you're not able to get out, then do a small scavenger hunt with sticky notes. each sticky note, write something that you love about him and a clue to where the next is. last one should lead to you for a kiss. then chill with board games or TV or whatever else you guys do in afternoon free time.
   
3. Dinner time, cook something together that you both enjoy, but not the norm. whether it be salmon or steak. get wine or favorite drinks to pair with it.
   
4. get marshmallows for the fire pit as dessert. melted chocolate too?
   
5. Ask your husband to clean / wash dishes. During this time, go to the bedroom and set up. Get these flameless candles and some rose petals around the bed. Hopefully they arrive on time from Amazon, but they're also available at Party City or Target.
   
6. Wear some lingerie or nothing at all, whatever your preference. dim/turn off the lights and leave door mostly closed. Call for your husband to come help you with something. wham bam thank you mam.
   
7. After happy time, go play Overcooked for video games to end the night. It's free on PS4 right now if you guys own that . Or $20 on Nintendo Switch. Another good co-op game on PS4 is Little Big Planet 3.

Best solution: RC4 + 2 of these with a flicker effect and gel + a tiny fogger.

Budget solution: This + a tiny fogger.

I would seriously advise against using a vape pen as a fogger - they can easily overheat and start a fire depending on the model.

Cross posted this to r/weddingplanning, but here are the table numbers I made for my Sept wedding.
http://imgur.com/a/BrpJ1

• Jars were from Amazon here
  
  
• Tea lights from Amazon here
  
  
• Spray paint from Home Depot
  
  
• Used Cambria font size 200 in Open Office to print out the template for the numbers.

The down lights are something I made from scratch.

Under the bed lights
WenTop Led Strip Lights Kit DC12V Power Supply Waterproof SMD 5050 16.4 Ft (5M) 300leds RGB 60leds/m with 44key Ir Remote Controller for Kicthen Bedroom Sitting Room and Outdoor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X7JUN0I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_D3a5CbV63GJ7X

Led candles (similar, can't find mine)
Vinkor Flameless Candles Battery Operated Candles 4" 5" 6" 7" 8" 9" Set of 9 Ivory Real Wax Pillar LED Candles with 10-Key Remote and Cycling 24 Hours Timer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D266SGW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_e9a5Cb8Z6WXH5

https://www.amazon.com/BOFIT-Rechargeable-Decoration-Fireplace-Halloween/dp/B07H299FJM/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540064386&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=bofit+led+usb

I actually bought a set from Amazon that were 100 for $40

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006O582LO/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Realistic-Flameless-Flickering-Halloween-Thanksgiving/dp/B07TXXT6SW