Hedgehog made of fruits can become a real decoration of the festive table, replacing the standard fruit slicing. For children's holidays, this option of serving fruit fully replaces dessert. "Fruit Beast" can be a wonderful craft in kindergarten or school, a pleasant surprise to your loved one. There are a lot of options for using a hedgehog, you just have to come up with a reason. The principle of making a fruit composition is very simple and will take a minimum of time and effort.
What fruits are suitable for crafts
In the process of making a fruit composition in the form of a hedgehog, you can use almost any fruit. To maintain the quality of crafts for a long time, you should adhere to several recommendations:
- Use unripe fruits that begin to darken or rot almost immediately.
- Include in the composition those fruits that do not emit a lot of juice and when punctured they will not fade, lose volume.
- It is advisable to use bright, fresh, uniformly sized fruits and berries that will retain freshness for a long time.
If you take into account all the nuances when choosing a material, then the hedgehog made of fruits will turn out to be beautiful, mouth-watering and attractive. "Sculpture" for a long time can remain the main exposition of the table. It is worth considering not only aesthetic aspects, but also practical ones, so that you can remove individual needles without harm to the whole creation.
A set of tools and materials for the formation of crafts
The composition, which is a hedgehog made of fruit, can be a pompous structure or a very small figure. In any case, such materials will be needed for the formation:
- small toothpicks or wooden skewers;
- a knife for cleaning and cutting fruit;
- clove type spices to form details.
Typically, to create the simplest hedgehog they use: pears, apples, grapes, olives, olives, gooseberries, melon, cherry plum. In more complex designs, all of the above options may apply. As a rule, the choice is made in accordance with the seasonal harvest and pomp of the event for which the fruit beast is being prepared.
Methods of forming the basis of the composition
To make the product stable, it could fit a maximum of elements and at the same time not fall, it is worth using fruit with a solid base. The pear is suitable in form and texture for the simplest version of the hedgehog. It can be prepared as follows:
- First you need to wash the pear and remove the hard tail. This should be done carefully so as not to break the tip of the fruit.
- Peel pear skin. You can use a knife for this. Uniformly peel it out with a peeler.
- To make the base stable, you need to cut one side. It is enough to remove 1/5 of the pear. The slice should be exactly parallel to the middle of the fruit.
- On the sharp end of the fruit, you need to put olive on and make eyes out of cloves. Thus, a muzzle is formed.
Hedgehog is made from fruits and vegetables, so for the snack option, the basis can be boiled potatoes. But when using such a vegetable, you need to think about how to make the elongated part, which will become the face of the animal.
Option to string fruit on a base
The standard fruit craft “Hedgehog”, in which the pear became the basis, is further made from grapes. It is advisable to use sultanas, ladies fingers or similar varieties. The main thing is that the berries do not contain seeds, and the skin is elastic and dense.
Next, “spines” are formed:
- To prepare toothpicks, while it is undesirable to use products with menthol application.
- String grapes on each of them. A toothpick should pierce the grape through the center, passing along the base.
- Additionally, you can fix a cube of hard cheese. Then it is better to use two small berries, and fix the cheese between them.
- Insert the toothpick with the pointed end into the pear. So do with each prepared item.
To form so many such toothpicks until almost the entire surface of the base is covered. All that remains is a toe of the pear, which will later be decorated in the form of a muzzle. If we talk about the vegetable option, then instead of grapes, you can use olives. Sometimes oblong triangles are cut from hard cheese, which are strung on toothpicks and inserted into the base.
Unique composition complement
To make the hedgehog made of fruit more attractive, it is worth considering an additional decoration. The choice will depend on how the composition will be used further. Hedgehog decoration options:
- If the fruit composition will be used to decorate the table and act as a cut, then on impromptu needles you can lay small flowers. It is permissible to fix several berries or grapes of a different color on top of the skewers.
- If the craft is exclusively decorative, then a satin ribbon can become a decoration, which will serve as a collar. From berries that are strung on a thread, you can make a necklace.
- You can decorate a vegetable hedgehog so that it resembles a kind of meat cut. Between the thorns lay pieces of ham or sausage.
If the craft has impressive dimensions, and instead of toothpicks large skewers are used, then the composition does not need to be additionally decorated. On wooden elements, you can place cheese cubes, colored grapes, olives, olives, apple slices. Options for bright combinations of mass.
Entourage for crafts
Having learned how to make a hedgehog from fruits, and make crafts, you can take care of the surroundings. It is necessary to prepare a suitable plate. It is advisable to choose a white color, but at the expense of form, the more unusual it is, the better.
A fruit hedgehog is displayed in the center of the selected plate. Around the central figure is to arrange other fruits or berries, sliced from fruits. In the case of the vegetable option, it is worth laying the meat on a plate.
You can arrange hedgehogs on separate pedestals, which are allowed to form from an inverted disposable cup. It is acceptable to put animals on bright napkins. You can put a bright napkin on a plate, and already install a hedgehog on top. It all depends on the imagination and preferences of the creator.