In making a flower pot and tea candle heater, you’ll need a 4-inch and 6-inch terracotta pot, four to six plain white tea candles, a tile surface, some bricks to support the flower pot, and a metal pan or quarter coin or aluminum foil to cover the 4-inch clay pothole.
Let’s not forget to include a lighter or any tool you have that can start a tiny flame.
The first step is to place the bricks on opposite sides. Please make sure that they are at a distance as far enough as the opening of the flower pot.
This space creates an area for the candles burning under the inverted flowerpot. And to serve as support for the flower pot as well.
Next, light up the candles and place them at the center of the pot. Place the smaller pot invertedly on top of the lighted candles. It would help if you covered the pothole of the smaller clay pot with a quarter coin or aluminum foil or metal pan.
Now, place the inverted 6-inch clay pot over the smaller one. The bigger clay pot should not have a cover.
In around 20 to 30 minutes, you’ll notice a significant increase in radiant heat coming from the pot’s heat source.
You can extinguish the lighted candles by blowing them out, although you need to be careful while doing so since pots might catch fire. The little inner pot can reach temperatures as high as 400 ℉. Allow plenty of time to cool completely before attempting to handle them.
Tea candles may not always be available. Alternatively, you can use one tin can heater to replace those tea candles. As shown below, you can combine a tin can heater and top it off with a flower pot. Cool, right?
This DIY Heaters list is indeed handy! Since I owned a camper, I’ve been an outdoorsy, nature-loving person and cold nights are sometimes the worst. Amon all the DIY heaters, I’ve been doing the tin can all the time. I love to try out the rocket stove DIY heater. If I happen to own a fireplace in the future, I would definitely use the paper logs for a DIY heater.