Candle Making Start-Up Kit

For young entrepreneurs aged 11–16

Light up your creativity and start your own business, one candle at a time.

✅ Guided Start-Up

✅ Creative Business Skills

✅ Safe, Low-Risk Materials

✅ Age-Appropriate & Supervised

What This Start-Up Kit Is Designed For

The Candle Making Start-Up Kit is designed to help young people turn creativity into real-world business skills through a safe, structured, and beginner-friendly process.

It focuses on:

• Confidence

• Creativity with purpose

• Understanding how products are made, priced, and sold

This kit is ideal for creating candles to sell, gift, or showcase, while learning how a small product-based business works.

✔ Beginner-friendly and guided
✔ Designed for creativity and confidence building
❌ Not a commercial manufacturing kit
❌ Not designed for unsupervised use

What Can They Earn?

Most young people begin by selling candles to friends, family, school events, or local markets.

Typical starter opportunities include:

• Birthday and celebration gifts

• Small bundles (2–3 candles)

• Seasonal or themed candles

Typical early pricing:

• £5–£10 per candle

• £20–£40 from small bundles or events

Earnings depend on creativity, effort, and guidance.
This kit focuses on learning how products are priced and sold, not guaranteed income.

Skills They’ll Learn for Life

This kit teaches far more than candle making.

🧠 Business & Life Skills

• Understanding pricing and profit

• Branding and presentation

• Communicating with customers

• Organisation and time management

• Handling money and planning ahead

🛠️ Practical & Creative Skills

• Safe candle making techniques

• Colour and scent selection

• Product consistency and quality

• Packaging and presentation

Skills that go far beyond this kit, and into the future.

What’s Included in the Start-Up Kit

Everything is carefully selected to be safe, creative, and ready to use.

Inside the box:

Soy Wax Flakes
Natural, beginner-friendly wax

Fragrance Oils
Popular scents for selling or gifting

Candle Dyes
Customise colours and styles

Wicks & Accessories
Wicks, wick stickers, and wooden sticks for stability

Pouring Jug & Thermometer
Reusable tools for safe candle making

Candle Jars with Lids
Ready to sell or gift

Candle Safety Label Stickers

Professional Packaging Boxes (x50)

Reusable, Washable Apron

25-Page Bizz Build Guide
Step-by-step guidance from start to sale

Business Cards (x20)
Add your business name and contact details

Step-by-Step Set-Up Guide Included

The included guide walks them through:

• Setting up their business, from naming, logo creation and offer building

• Health and safety guidance 

• Pricing products correctly

• Planning and managing your business

• Selling to real customers

• managing your costs and profits

Clear, simple, and designed to avoid overwhelm.

Designed for Guided Independence

This kit encourages creativity and independence while recognising that support matters.

Parents can guide as needed, with clear boundaries and safe progression built into the process.

Is This Start-Up Kit Right for Your Child?

✔ Loves creativity and hands-on projects
✔ Interested in selling something they’ve made
✔ Wants to learn how product businesses work
✔ Ready to build confidence and responsibility

❌ Not designed for commercial-scale production
❌ Not intended for unsupervised use

Want to Make Their Brand Shine?

Join the Build A Bizz Subscription

Subscribers unlock extra tools to grow their candle brand, including:

• A custom-designed logo for their candle business

• Branded stickers, packaging, and flyers

• Monthly extras and business-building resources

Personalised branding and printed merch are available only with an active subscription.

Why Build A Bizz?

Build A Bizz gives young people more than just materials.

We provide:

• Structure

• Guidance

• Confidence

• Skills that last a lifetime

This isn’t about rushing results.
It’s about creativity with purpose, learning responsibility, and understanding how real products turn into real rewards.

Start Their Business Journey Today