Tips, tricks, and inspiration for creating beautiful ice lanterns at home!
Ice luminaries are fun to make and magical to see up close. The way that the light dances in the ice is different every time! Our system helps you master the basics so you can make beautiful creations every time.
There are so many ways to display ice globes - a single luminary on your porch, a group lining your sidewalk, lit with a glowing candle - even indoors as a centerpiece or slow-burning night light!
Feeling inspired? We feel the best way to learn how to make gorgeous artistic creations with ice is to understand the basics, then let your imagination run wild!
Jennifer Shea Hedberg is Wintercraft's "Ice Wrangler." Her passion for mixing art and science drives her to create beauty with ice - and to inspire you to do it too!
For three decades, Jennifer and her family have been creating globe ice lanterns — magical, glacial candle-holders — all year ‘round. Friends marvel at these spherical shells of ice, the center of which glows with radiant flame. Time and experimentation have honed their ice lantern-making skills and now their icy creations have been featured at many events, rallies, corporate gatherings, weddings, and private parties celebrating everything from the Winter Solstice to the Fourth of July.