How To Make A Candy Topiary Bouquet

Candy bouquets make great centerpieces or gifts for any occasion. Here are some tips for creating your own candy topiary bouquet are either in a pot or cup.

1. Either buy / find a flower pot or cup match to your topic. Could, for example for Mother's Day, you want to use a flower pot or cup with a Spring floral theme.

2. If you use a cup, you will want to buy a piece of floral foam (cut to size and) put into the cup foot, a dowel rod (toStick in the ground and form the topiary) and a Styrofoam ball (at the end of the dowel rod stick and form the upper end of the topiary). If you use a pot, you can purchase the described supplies for the cup, or you can buy pre-made topiary forms that are placed directly into the pot. I have seen these forms with styrofoam cup-shaped base Styrofoam ball up with Michael and Joanne Fabrics. If you go with the preparation made the form, you can hot glue it directly into the flowerPot.

3. Once the form either in your cup or pot, you should hot glue Spanish moss or other decorative items such as shells, dried flowers, etc., which basically at the top of the base foam hide the foam from the base.

4. Buy a few flower pins and candy. I always recommend this candy color coordinate with your theme, such as fruit candies in pastel wrappers for Mother's Day and Easter, and red / white hard peppermint candies for Christmas. Take aMetal floral pin and hold it until the end of the candy wrappers (directly before it ends twisted) and then stick the flowers with the included pen sweets on the round Styrofoam ball topiary. This process is repeated until the entire globe covered with candy and you can not peering through a Styrofoam.

5. To dress up the candy bouquet, you can pin floral tape or small silk flowers between some candy. Even pieces of tie ribbon around the dowel Lawunder the Styrofoam ball. It looks good when you leave the band tail long enough to hang down and disguise the wood dowel. I recommend either Curl or 1 / 2 "wide organza ribbon for this task.

You have successfully your candy topiary bouquet!