P1080450 Erika paints an Easter egg with hot wax

We are trying to recreate the craft of my childhood, painting an Easter egg with hot wax. The egg is then dipped in dye. After it's dyed, you scrape off the wax, and get white patterns on a colored background. While a chopstick is long enough so you could dip it into a burning candle without burning your fingers, it is too crude a tool for this job. Yet I could not find a finer, thinner tool that was also long enough to keep from being burned. Myself, I use toothpicks and matchsticks, but for a child, that's too dangerous.