#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET HOW TO#
#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET FULL#
#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET CODE#

Once you’ve made a few they start to go pretty fast! It’s a great project to work on while watching a favorite show. For the flower below, I cut a fringe along one side of the crepe paper strip: You can experiment with how you cut the crepe paper to get different looks for your flower. I wrapped the sucker stick in floral tape as well so the stem of the chocolate flower would be green. Or you can do what I did and wrap the bottom of the flower with floral tape (stretching tape as you wrap to secure it). When you get to the end, you can just use clear tape to secure the crepe paper in place, adding in a leaf if desired.Continue pleating and sticking the crepe paper to form a flower shape. Starting at the base of the truffle near the stick, begin sticking the adhesive side of the crepe paper to the truffle, pleating it as you go around.Cut a few leaf shapes from green crepe paper if desired.

You just need to be pretty gently because the crepe paper is delicate and tears easily. I found it was easiest to do this with an adhesive runner, but you could also use a glue stick.

Add adhesive all along the other long side of the crepe paper strip.

I used a strip about 3 feet long for each flower and cut a petal shape along one long side of the crepe paper strip.

Start by hot gluing a sucker stick to one wrapper end of each truffle.

#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET HOW TO#

I created this video to show you how to make the chocolate flowers for your candy bouquet: If you don’t want to have to buy multiple colors of crepe paper, just purchase white and then get an assorted package of truffles for pretty white flowers with all different colored centers. And these blue sea salt truffles look really pretty inside white or light blue crepe paper. The white chocolate truffles have a pretty yellow wrapper that goes nicely with just about any color of crepe paper. Here is how to do it.How to make a chocolate bouquet. Try to find streamers and truffles in colors that look good together. Chocolate and flowers are the best gifts, so why not combine then into a chocolate bouquet.

hot glue gun, scissors, and adhesive runner or glue stick.

To make the chocolate flowers, you will need the following (I was able to find all these items at Walmart for a dollar or two each):

#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET FULL#

I mean, I’d be pretty pumped to receive a bouquet full of candy! These little chocolate flowers are easy to put together and would make a cute teacher’s appreciation gift or a fun Mother’s Day gift.

I thought it would be fun to combine these two classic gifts into a candy bouquet. I’m guessing the two most traditional gifts for women are flowers and chocolate, at least when we’re talking gifts that are reasonably inexpensive. That is it! Your Twix candy bouquet for the next cute, gift you need.In today’s post: Learn how to turn chocolate truffles into a pretty candy bouquet! Perfect DIY gift idea for Mother’s Day or teacher appreciation. It is that easy and you saved some money in the process! You could add little water balloons blown up and place them on a stick to add to the bouquet. Step #6 – Place a ribbon for your finishing touch

#MAKING A CANDY BAR BOUQUET CODE#

You can do whatever you want and color code how you want to.Īrrange your sticks in a way that is decorative to your liking.

Step #4 – Tape the candy bars to the sticks. For wrapped hard candies, attach one end of the wrapper to the wire. If you are using chocolates, you just poke the pointed end of the skewer into the chocolate. Tie a small bow or curling ribbon to the base of the candy. Like I said, this is open to a lot of different customizations to make your gift just right! Make sure you first wrap the bamboo skewer with floral tape to give it a nicer look. You could also glue a piece of cardboard on the bottom of the vase and fill it up with a candy as your filler. Styrofoam would be easy as well, it is just another thing you have to get. It was easy and just used scissors to cut it up. I used cardboard because it is what we had. Step #3 – Cut up cardboard, or styrofoam so it fits inside of the candy vase. This is what makes this so cute is that the candy is the vase. Also, make sure all of the boxes are facing outwards so you can see the candy name. If you get more than 2 than you vase is going to be crazy shaped.

Make sure that when you are picking out the boxes that you have 2 different sizes. Also, you must ensure that you distribute the candy bars evenly. Attempt to assemble candies, tissue paper, and flowers whose colours complement each other. If you get a diverse grouping of candy bars, it may throw off the colour balance of your bouquet. Step #2 – Glue your 4 boxes into a rectangle so it creates a candy vase. In short, theyre some of the best non-dairy chocolate bars weve tasted, bar none Chicken Noodle Soup. A factor most people overlook when making a bouquet is the wrapper colour of each candy bar. 12 or more small candy bars or mini packaged candies.4 boxed candy (get 2 of the same sized boxes).

Making a candy bar bouquet