How to make flowers from sweets and corrugated paper with your own hands?

Any girl can not resist the chic bouquets of fresh flowers and all kinds of sweets. Each holiday, the fair sex, in addition to the main gift, is also presented with floral arrangements and sweets. There is no limit to the imagination and ingenuity of modern needlewomen, and they figured out how to combine these two components, creating an amazing and unique gift. Many people dream of trying to surprise their beloved people in this way. Therefore, a rather exciting question today is how to make flowers from sweets and corrugated paper with your own hands. Such a gift will certainly be remembered for a long time, combining in itself all the most beautiful and delicious. That's how to create it, we will tell you in this article.

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Simple Bouquets for Beginners

If you are just starting to learn how to make flowers from corrugated paper with sweets, then it is recommended to start with the simplest options.

Delicious pineapple from a plastic bottle

For the first option, it is enough to take a round plastic bottle to get a bouquet in the shape of a pineapple. So, for work, prepare:

• Pot-bellied plastic bottle.
• Glue gun or glue.
• Green corrugated paper.
• Candies of a round form in a golden wrapper.

A simple bouquet of bottles is done in just a few steps:

1. Take the bottle, cut it into two parts - so that one makes up one third, and the second - the doors of the third parts of the base.
2. Insert the remaining bottom into the top.
3. Cut off excess pieces so that the shape is shorter and less elongated.
4. Glue the base in even rows of sweets. It is better if the candies are large, so that it is easier to work with them.
5. From the green corrugated paper, cut out the leaves for our pineapple, stick them in the neck of the bottle.

Bouquet of flower pot

The second option is based on the use of an ordinary flower pot. Also, corrugated paper will play an important role here, since it is best suited for such crafts: it is easy and simple to work with, fold and glue with it.

You will need the following to work:

• A small plastic flower pot.
• Corrugated paper in white and red.
• Sweets in shiny wrappers.
• Styrofoam.
• Wooden skewers.
• Scotch.

A basket with original flowers is assembled according to this scheme:

• Fill the pot with foam as densely as possible.
• Cut the paper into small squares measuring approximately 10 by 10 centimeters.
• Pierce the center of each square with a skewer, take the paper, so that the result is a flower.
• Secure the base of each flower with tape.

Important! It is better if it will be the same color as paper. For example, you can wrap the skewer and the base of the flower with green tape, and you get a leg.

• Put sweets on the sharp ends of the skewers, and then stick each of them into a foam pot. As a result, you will get an original basket with red flowers.
• Wrap the pot with white paper, tie a red ribbon.

Composition of oilcloth and wire

A sufficiently nice and original bouquet can be made using such familiar and familiar materials:

• Plastic pot.
• Sweets with two ends.
• Packaging tape for flowers and colored oilcloth.
• Nippers and scissors.
• Dense long wire.
• Scotch tape in green.
• Styrofoam.

In principle, the manufacturing scheme of such a bouquet has much in common with the above options, but there are some differences:

• To prepare the base, insert the colored oilcloth in the pot, and lay the foam on top with a dense layer.

Important! You can immediately close the foam with paper or foil to hide it completely.

• Prepare the twigs. Stick three candies on tape with tape.
• Then wrap each branch with oilcloth, tie a twisted ribbon around it.
• Stick all the finished flowers into the base of the pot.

That's it, our bouquet is ready!

The described methods will help even a person who has never encountered such a job, it is easy to figure out how to make flowers from corrugated paper with sweets with your own hands. No special skills and devices are needed here, everything is extremely simple and clear.

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Original candy and paper compositions

Do you want to surprise the birthday boy with a special handmade gift? Why not try making a ship out of his favorite sweets? No difficulties should arise, since the algorithm of the main actions practically does not differ from the technique of manufacturing simple compositions.

Important! First you need to make a base from the foam and prepare blanks from sweets already worn on skewers, decorated with paper or foil.

So what do you need:

• Candies.
• Toothpicks or skewers.
• Wrapping colored paper.
• Wicker basket.
• A small piece of foam.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Thick thread.

Getting started:

• It is desirable that the basket was elongated, resembling a ship.
• Then you need to cut a piece of polystyrene so that it clearly goes into the basket, and fix it with glue inside.
• Now you can make blanks from toothpicks or skewers, colored paper and sweets.
• Next, stick the finished skewers into the foam so that the base is not visible.

Important! To make the composition look more like a ship, you can make elongated cones from paper in front and behind.

• From skewers make a mast for the ship, and sails from rectangular or square pieces of paper. The mast can be decorated with flags on top.
• Use a thread to secure the mast and bow of the ship.

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DIY flower bouquets

From improvised materials you can make bouquets of tulips, roses, lilies, crocuses and any other flowers.

Tulips

Let's start with the most popular and beloved by many tulips. In addition to your own imagination and patience, still stock up on such tools and materials:

• Candies.
• Ordinary chintz fabric red, pink and white.
• Wire.
• Green tape.
• Scissors.
• Skewers.

It’s not difficult to make a chic bouquet of tulips, following this scheme:

1. Wrap candy in a cloth to make delicate buds of tulips. If the candies are too flat, then you can take two at once for the base.
2. Stick the bottom of the skewer, tie the buds with tape, wrapping them to the very end of the skewer.
3. Cut leaflets from green felt, attach them to the base of the bud with tape.

The flowers are ready!

Important! Make as many flowers as you need from a different fabric and form a bouquet, tied it neatly with a satin ribbon.

Roses

Now we will consider how to make a bouquet of sweets and corrugated paper so that it looks like a composition of charming roses. Agree that these are the most popular flowers. Due to the properties of corrugated paper, roses from it are incredibly beautiful and as natural as possible.

To create a bouquet you will need:

• Long skewers.
• Candies.
• Green and red corrugated paper.
• Wicker basket.
• Scissors.
• Styrofoam.
• Glue.
• Decoration for a bouquet.
• Scotch.

Well, let's proceed directly to the process of making the composition:

• Use tape to fasten the sweets on the skewers.

Important! The number of sweets will directly depend on the dimensions of the future bouquet.

• Cut rose petals from red paper. In shape, they should resemble real petals as much as possible.
• Using a rectangular sheet of red paper, make the main bud. Its size will depend on the size of the flower.
• Spread the middle of the leaves with your fingers.
• Wrap the sweets on the skewers with the finished leaves, and use the adhesive tape to fasten them at the base.
• Attach all remaining petals one at a time.
• Bend down the petals and spread them out so that beautiful roses come out, and sweets can be seen inside.
• Wrap the skewer and base of each flower with green paper or tape.

Important! Now you can make roses of other shades, and then arrange them into a single composition, decorating with additional details.

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We gave examples of how to make flowers from corrugated paper with sweets for beginners and amateurs to experiment. Everyone will be able to choose for themselves a more acceptable option, which he will be able to implement independently.