The beauty of the really nice collectible birthday candle holders is that you can keep them as a memento of your child’s birthday and even use them again in the years to come if you like.

Alternatively, there are also fun, colorful plastic ones that simply keep the melting wax off of the cake!

If you’re looking for birthday candle holders, have a look at some of our favorite places to buy them below:

Sugarplum Dreams sells a wide variety of beautiful pewter Happy Birthday Candle Holders by Morphosis which sell for around $10 each.

Baby Heirlooms sells an adorable set of circus animal birthday candle holders for around $27.

Beehive Kitchenware sells a set of six lovely vintage-inspired pewter birds for $52.

ShopBakersNook.com sells a set of 24 plastic birthday candle holders for $1.09 (as of Nov. ‘09).