The reasons when you need to give a lady flowers can be very different: March 8, birthday, exams, graduation, and much more. True, the familiar bouquet has one significant drawback: even the most persistent live no more than a week. But it’s not at all necessary to give ordinary flowers. Why not make a bouquet of lollipops with your own hands? Such a gift will surely appeal to the most demanding beauty. Moreover, even after a month she will be able to enjoy it.
Necessary materials
In order to make a small bouquet of Chupa-Chups candies, you will need such tools and materials:
- sweets themselves (5-7 pieces, but in general, the more sweets, the more magnificent the bouquet will be);
- colored corrugated paper (you can buy at a flower shop or use paper napkins);
- colored ribbon for decoration (several different ones are possible);
- thin adhesive tape (it will be needed a lot for attaching "flowers");
- stationery scissors.
Step-by-step instruction
1. First of all, it is necessary to prepare a workplace - there should not be anything superfluous. The proper organization of business helps well in the future.
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Cut out circles from colored paper or napkins. The more different colors there are, the brighter a bouquet of chupa-chups will turn out. With your own hands you can create a real masterpiece, it would be a desire! So, for each cooked caramel, we need 3-4 circles with a diameter of 10-12 cm.
3. For convenience, lay them in piles for each "flower". Fold each circle in half, then again in half. Cut off a small tip. A stick of candy will be threaded into the resulting hole.
4. After each “flower” is surrounded by “petals”, you need to fasten the paper with adhesive tape, holding the head in a fist well. Then the hand can be released, if necessary, correct the "flower".
5. Thus, you need to collect the whole bouquet of lollipops with your own hands. And the last thing left is to fasten the "flowers" together. For this, you may even need a second pair of hands. To keep the bouquet well, you must first connect two chupa-chupa. Then wind the third one and so on until all the elements are collected.
6. And the last: we just have to mask the scotch tape and at the same time decorate the bouquet. Namely: cut the tape 20-30 cm long, tie the base tightly around it and make spirals with scissors.
It's so simple to make a bouquet of lollipops, a photo of which is presented at the beginning of the article. Just do not be afraid of bumps and roughnesses. In the finished form, they will not be so striking.
Variations
Naturally, this is not the only option for creating such a craft as a bouquet of lollipops with your own hands. For example, you can make real roses, if instead of circles around the caramel to fix the petals. They can be made from strips twisted into loops. You can lengthen the base of the bouquet with tubules, if required. And it’s good to decorate such a bouquet with a congratulatory inscription. Or wrap in corrugated paper.
Sweet design only seems complicated at first glance. In fact, the manufacture of various bouquets of sweets is affordable even for a schoolboy. The main thing is to stock up with the necessary materials and tools. And then find a free evening to make an unusual gift with your own hands. I wish you creative success!