Cordless Christmas Candles

Cordless Christmas candles offer a safe alternative to using an open flame. Christmas is a time when many people use candles as part of their holiday decorating displays and dinner table settings, and these are common places where a cordless, battery operated candle would be a safer option.

Use cordless candles in a Christmas lantern.

Cordless candles are those that run on batteries and LED lights. They can look a lot like a real candle, with flickering "flames" and candle holders, but they don't use real fire to stay lit. Alternatively, you can find smaller cordless candles that are strung together like traditional Christmas lights. These candles offer some benefits over regular candles, including:

• No heat or open flame
• No melting wax
• Eliminating the need to keep an eye on the candle
• No soot or smoke
• Safe for children to touch

Some cordless candles have options like timers, so they'll shut off automatically, or can change colors. They come in a wide variety of styles and sizes, from large individual candles that could be used as pillars, to elaborate decorative taper candles in fancy candle holders.

Cordless Christmas candles can be safely placed in the window, or on a table surrounded by greenery and other holiday decorations. You can also find cordless Christmas wreaths, pine boughs, and garland that are lit by battery operated candles.

Cordless candles offer many new options that traditional candles simply can't. They can also be used in places where you'd normally use a regular candle. Here are some ways to incorporate cordless Christmas candles into your holiday decorating.

• Place small battery-operated candles inside lanterns, and accent with sprigs of seasonal greenery and berries.
• Arrange a set of small cordless candles around pine garlands on your mantelpiece or a buffet table.
• Place a decorative cordless candle (or several of them) in your window to accent your outdoor lights.
• Hang a wreath accented with a candle in the middle on your front door, or anywhere indoors where there's a large amount of wall space that needs a bit of holiday cheer.
• Carve out an apple, orange, or other fruit and place a small cordless candle inside for a festive candle holder. These look cute on the table for a Christmas breakfast or brunch.
• Put several votive-sized cordless candles around the base of a large house plant, either real or artificial, inside the pot, for an illuminating glow.

You can purchase cordless candles at home supply stores such as Home Depot, many department and gift stores, or wherever Christmas decorations are sold. You can also order them online at a variety of retailers. Here are a few products and sites to order them from.

• Three-tier window candle from Amazon.com – This is a neat cordless candle that features a light sensor. The candles turn on when it gets dark outside, and off again at dawn. This set comes with a mounting slip so you can place it on a windowsill, and you could easily dress it up with holiday ribbons, sprigs of Christmas flowers, or other adornments.

• Cordless candle wreath from Brookstone.com – Here's a wreath with a cordless candle in the center, and you can hang it right on a window, on a door, or from a windowsill. This candle also has the same light sensor, so you don't have to worry about turning it on or off.

• Christmas tree LED candles from Lehman's – These small candles fit onto your existing strings of lights to give your Christmas tree a unique look. The lights themselves flicker to look more authentic.

Cordless candles make sense at Christmas, when you're busy with other things and can't be watching an open flame. With all of the children running around, and scads of decorations nearby, a battery operated candle is much safer than its traditional counterpart. You can also use a mixture of both real and cordless candles, to get the best of both worlds.

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