Pour, scent and take home your own candles in this beginner friendly class, one of the easiest crafty team building activities to bring to a team anywhere in the Bay Area. Small groups can join the instructor at the studio in Mountain View, and larger groups are taught at your office or venue with travel fees included.
The class runs two hours and is priced at $90 per guest for groups of 4 to 200 guests. At the studio, each guest makes two fragrant soy container candles and one whimsical gel candle. For groups of more than 8 guests the instructor travels to you and the class focuses on soy container candles only.
What's Included
- Two hours of guided candle making with an experienced instructor
- A lesson on different
Pour, scent and take home your own candles in this beginner friendly class, one of the easiest crafty team building activities to bring to a team anywhere in the Bay Area. Small groups can join the instructor at the studio in Mountain View, and larger groups are taught at your office or venue with travel fees included.
The class runs two hours and is priced at $90 per guest for groups of 4 to 200 guests. At the studio, each guest makes two fragrant soy container candles and one whimsical gel candle. For groups of more than 8 guests the instructor travels to you and the class focuses on soy container candles only.
What's Included
- Two hours of guided candle making with an experienced instructor
- A lesson on different types of wax, vessels, wicks and candle safety
- A scent blending experience so every candle smells unique to its maker
- All wax, vessels, wicks, fragrances and tools for the project
- Two soy container candles and one gel candle per guest at the studio; soy container candles for groups over 8
- Travel to your Bay Area venue for mobile classes, with travel fees included
What You Will Learn
The class covers the full process: how different waxes behave, how to choose a vessel, how to set a wick and how to work safely with hot wax. Guests then blend their own fragrance and pour candles that are unique to them. The goal is practical: by the end, everyone knows enough to keep making candles at home, or even to start a small business.
Reviewers praise the high quality of the materials, the chance to choose their own scents and decorations, and an instructor who customizes the experience and answers every question. Several call it a great way for a team to de-stress and enjoy time together.
Why It Works for Groups
Candle making suits nearly any team. It is calm, social and approachable for complete beginners, and every guest walks out with something useful. As hands on team building activities go, it also scales unusually well: the same class works for a team of four at the studio or as one of the more practical fun team building activities for large groups, with a class size of up to 200 guests.
Because the instructor brings everything to you, it is easy to run as one of your in office team building events, a creative birthday party or a relaxing bachelorette party. It also works as creative team building for the season: a hand-poured candle makes a natural Christmas party keepsake, which puts it among the simplest holiday team building activities to plan.
About the Studio
The host is a women-owned bath, body and fragrance studio in Mountain View that has been making bath and body products for more than 15 years. Its owner has worked as a film and television make-up artist since 1979, on music videos, commercials, feature films and broadcasts, and combines that background with a lifelong love of crafting and an interest in herbs and natural ingredients. The studio teaches perfume creation, cold process soap making and candle making, and it also hosts corporate parties, team building sessions and private classes for planners across the Bay Area.
Across 136 class reviews the studio holds a 4.9-star average, and guests consistently describe the instructor as knowledgeable, patient and fun, with clear instructions and a relaxed pace that keeps everyone engaged from start to finish.
How the Session Runs
- Meet your instructor and learn about wax types, vessels and wicks
- Review candle safety before anyone works with hot wax
- Blend a custom scent for your candles
- Pour your soy container candles, plus a gel candle for studio classes
- Let the candles set and take them home
Good to Know
- Beginners are welcome; no experience is needed
- Groups of up to 8 can come to the Mountain View studio; larger groups are taught at your venue
- The mobile class serves venues anywhere in the Bay Area, with travel fees included
- You can add guests later with at least one month of notice, but the guest count generally cannot be reduced
- Groups of 4 to 200 guests at $90 per guest
Plan Your Candle Making Class
Share your preferred date, location and group size to check availability. With every material included and finished candles for every guest, this is a simple, crowd-pleasing way to bring a team together, whether you have four people or two hundred.
