The upcoming holidays always turn into thoughts about gifts. If the hero of the occasion raves about the office or his work / main occupation is associated with the constant use of office supplies, then in this case a candy pen may be a good gift option.
Necessary materials and accessories
The choice of sweets should be approached more carefully. It should be oblong and thin sweets. A good option is a candy called "Konafetto." These sweets will need 350 grams. Portion chocolate, for example, “Inspiration”, is also quite suitable. It is also necessary to stock up:
- thin cardboard;
- metallized corrugated paper (color - blue);
- cardboard tube left over from cling film or foil;
- hot glue;
- double-sided tape;
- beads, satin ribbons, nylon braid - for decoration;
- chocolate coins (they will be used to make the button at the end of our pen).
Beginning of work
How to start making a pen from sweets with your own hands? With the clarification of what will be the length of the finished product. To do this, it must be correlated with the length of the chocolate. Immediately expect that on the tube that we have chosen to work, there are three chocolates / sweets in length. Plus, beads will be laid between them as a decorative element.
The excess of our workpiece can be cut with a knife. It is better to use a wooden board for this.
How to make a pen from sweets: the progress of work
We take a thin cardboard (dense Whatman paper is also suitable). We make a bag from one of these materials, fasten its edges to glue. We get the bow of the future sweet accessory.
Try on how the workpiece will fit into the cardboard tube, make cuts along the edge and glue it. For decoration, you can use white corrugated paper.
Please note: depending on the thickness of the nose of the handle, a layer of sweets will also lie down. To make it smoother, the nose needs to be made thinner. After around the nose you need to wrap and glue the blue metallic paper.
The next step in the manufacture of pens made of sweets: you need to hide the edge under blue beads - use hot-melt adhesive to glue them. Now grasp the double-sided tape - it must be placed along the entire length of the tube. It is on it that sweets will be attached. When you begin to mount them, do not forget to alternate with beads. And try to ensure that the chocolates are always located one under the other, without breaking the vertical.
Make sure the chocolate holds well. To do this, each row can be wrapped with nylon tape. She reaches out in the center. Thanks to this method, you get "two birds with one stone to kill." And the chocolates will be fixed, and decorate the product.
End of work
Next, you have to make a stub. It is necessary to close the end of the edible stationery. Take the cork and wrap it with paper (to give thickness), then paste over corrugated paper (it should be blue). Garnish the edge with beads.
Let's give the product credibility and add a holder. Thin cardboard is the material that should be taken to make the part. And it will take only one strip. Wrap it in corrugated paper.
Insert the edge of the paper extending from the handle body into the tube, and insert the tip of the holder here. Do the same with the stub. Use glue to fix.
If you want to give the resulting pen from presentability sweets, then make a base. It can be an ordinary rectangle, which was made of cardboard (do not take it too thin), wrapped in gray corrugated paper.
If you are fascinated by the process of making pens from sweets, then you can also make a pencil. The principle will be exactly the same. As a result, you will receive a set of gift writing accessories.
Budget gift option
Such a present may well please any teacher of the students. In this case, only two candies will be needed. They must be oblong. Plus, stock up with one round chocolate candy, corrugated paper (two colors are needed), self-adhesive paper, a glue gun. You can see photos of pens made of sweets in our material. In the meantime, we describe the progress of work.
Work stages
First you need to glue prepared candies using hot glue. Make sure that a drop of glue is not too large, or else damage to the packaging or candy cannot be avoided.
We get the core of our accessory. Given its size, you need to cut out the rectangle (for this you will need self-adhesive paper or film). Wrap our sweets and get a cylinder. It is the basis of the handle of sweets. We make a cone (gold or silver self-adhesive paper or film is used). Having rolled the cone, we get the tip of the product.
Hot glue will again be required to connect the base and the tip of the handle. Craft is almost ready. It would be nice to formalize it. To do this, we make a rose bud (we need corrugated paper). From it you need to cut three rectangles (their size is 7 x 5 centimeters). Cut the petals from them and give them a semicircular shape on top. Use a toothpick to wind the edges of the petals. The middle part of each of them needs to be slightly stretched.
To form a flower, wrap in turn the petals using glue. Take the green corrugation and cut the sepals. After they are attached to the flower (hot glue will help out in this case as well), gently twist.
It remains to insert the flower at the top of the handle and fix it with glue. So, the pen made of sweets for Teacher's Day is ready!