Candles with prizes inside

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We always got those big candles with prizes inside... where you melt them a bit and things re-emerge. The cheap ones from the stores you had to buy several, but I remember the more advent-style ones my grandpa would make by dipping several items into wax so you got a couple of prizes as the day wore on. I feel like it was often dark enough on RE Day that we burned the candles all day long... but I also definitely remember burning my fingers pretty badly on a little metal truck I found inside an RE candle one year.

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My favorite was the one that was kind of like a kinder egg where there were a whole bunch of individual pieces that were slowly revealed as the candle melted down so you'd be guessing until you got to the very bottom how they might go together. My favorite was the little catapult.