Today it has become fashionable to make loved ones do-it-yourself candy gifts. A master class for making some variants of such crafts will be considered in this article. Trying to do something similar, the master will enjoy it.
Flowers and sweets in one gift
Since ancient times, bouquets have been considered the best offering to the fair sex. And if they are also edible, then this increases the value and creativity of the gift. Flowers, inside of which there are sweets, are given both to loved ones, wives, mothers, grandmothers, and respected teachers, educators, doctors, and employees. It is original and modern, and besides, you can easily make such gifts from sweets with your own hands.
A master class of manufacturing, for example, a bouquet of daisies begins with the manufacture of sweet plant cores. This technique is universal for all types of such crafts. Therefore, first of all, you need to master this skill. So, let's start our first lesson on the topic: "Flowers from sweets for beginners."
Master class in the manufacture of flower cores
For this stage of work should prepare the material:
- wooden skewer;
- narrow tape;
- scissors.
Sweets can be taken both with spins on both sides, and only with one. Do not use sweets without a wrapper. But if it so happens that it becomes necessary to work with “naked” candies, you must first wrap them in bright foil. It is necessary to observe sanitary standards, because we make edible gifts from sweets with our own hands.
A master class in making a core from a yummy wrapped in candy wrappers from two ends is more complicated. Therefore, consider this option.
Candy is wound at one end to the skewer using tape. For lack of such, you can use ordinary threads.
The second, remaining free, neatly straighten the end and cover it with candy, like a skirt. Of course, when choosing sweets for flower hearts, one should rely on the tastes and addictions of the one gifted, so that gifts from sweets with their own hands would be to their liking.
Master class for making a bouquet of daisies
Next, you need to prepare a cup of flower. The easiest way to make a camomile. For it, it is necessary to cut out the shape of a cup from cardboard with the connected petals, as shown in the photo.
But in the same way you can make a cornflower. Just for him, patterns of a different shape are cut out, with serrated petals without roundness at the edges. It is better to use not cardboard, but plain colored paper and put together three or four patterns.
The cup template is pierced with a skewer on which the core is fixed. From below, it is better to fix our flower on the stem with a plasticine ring.
The "stem" is wrapped in a strip of green paper 1-1.5 centimeters wide. It is most convenient to use corrugated for this work, since it stretches well and therefore is quite elastic.
Kinder Surprise with a marriage proposal or car keys
Composing compositions of sweets and flowers, the donor can include a more expensive gift in it. Such, for example, can be a wedding ring or the keys to a new car. Since these items are small in size, incomparable with the material and moral value of the gift itself, they can be originally "hidden" in a sweet bouquet.
A plastic egg-container from Kinder Surprise will serve as a gift case. First, the chocolate delicacy is expanded, keeping the foil intact. With a knife heated over a fire, gently cut the egg and take out the container. Having freed it from the contents, they put inside the object intended for the gifted. By the way, you can put a rolled up banknote, jewelry or something else, small, but valuable.
The halves of the chocolate egg are folded together, placing a container with a gift inside, and with a red-hot knife, they heat up the cut line as if they were working with a soldering iron. At the lower end of the figures, make a small hole where the skewer is inserted. You can fix the sweet craft with melted chocolate.
Then the Kinder Surprise is wrapped again in foil. You can arrange petals around a chocolate egg , imitating a large flower. And you can completely modify its appearance by turning it into a funny duckling or owl. To do this, you need colored foil, glue and cardboard. Some use silk as a wrapper, stick photos, giving the treat the appearance of a human head. Actually, here the wizard’s fantasies open an endless field.
Workshop on making a bouquet of the first spring flowers
For the holidays that come immediately after the winter cold, most often give snowdrops, crocuses, primroses. All these flowers appear immediately after the snow melts. Their buds are first tightly compressed into an ovoid "cam", the petals are thick and juicy. White, not yet blooming snowdrops made of sweets are made according to the algorithm for making yellow crocuses. A cup of these flowers will require three petals.
- First prepare the stand for the bouquet. It can be a vase, a glass, a basket. At the bottom of the tank you need to stick a piece of plasticine or putty, where skewers-stems will be stuck.
- Corrugated paper is cut into strips 2.5-3 centimeters wide and 8-10 cm long. You need to choose the right color for the material. For example, yellow paper is used for crocuses, and white snowdrops made of sweets, of course, speak for themselves. They will need snow-white material.
- Each strip is twisted in the middle and folded in half.
- The thumbs of both hands slightly stretch the petal, giving it a convex shape.
- A core is made of sweets, fixing them on skewers as described above.
- Ready-made flowers are set on a stand. If the container is transparent, then candy is poured around the stems. It is best to use round sweets of bright colors for this.
- In addition to flowers, you can only make sweets on skewers. They are also mixed with crocuses.
- Green leaves are attached to the skewers. They should decorate a bouquet.
- Along the edges of the container, beautifully folded paper for packing flowers, a mesh or fabric from which the transverse threads are stretched is laid.
Tulip making workshop
Flowers, in which the corolla consists of one row of petals, are made according to the same algorithm. The only difference is that the color of the paper changes . And the shape of the petals is also different for all colors. For example, if you need to make tulips that have already opened out of sweets with your own hands, then petals similar to a boat are cut out of corrugated paper. The same form parts, but smaller, will be required for bells, blue snowdrops.
The petals in the middle are stretched with the thumbs, giving them a convex shape. Then they are placed around the middle, made of candy on a skewer. You can also make green sepals. From below, the cup is tied with a thread and fixed with tape.
It is recommended to wrap the stem. To do this, use a green strip 1-1.5 cm wide, cut off from a roll of corrugated paper. Then, ready-made tulips made of sweets, made by hand as a gift to a loved one, are collected in a bouquet, decorated with leaves, curly ribbons and a net for flowers.
Fancy candy gifts
An interesting option for crafts can be a cake made of chocolates, with sweets inside. You can perform this craft by imitating a bath gang. By the way, in such compositions from sweets you can hide a creative gift, which will be revealed only after all the sweets from the "gang" have been eaten.
The gentleman's set of offerings to the lady of the heart includes, in addition to flowers and sweets, wine. More often it is champagne. From sweets you can make a decoration for him, turning the bottle into a pineapple or a Christmas tree. Sweets are simply glued by the wrapper's tail to the glass or fixed with tape.
Champagne in the original way can be presented as a gift to both spouse and spouse, putting it on the shelf in the morning with the rest of the offerings prepared by relatives.