Making Your Own Candy Bouquet is easier than you think

Beautiful Roses

Materials used: a vase, red and white flat marbles, Lindt Milk Chocolate Truffles, Styrofoam, green and red cellophane, red curling ribbon, stem wire (16 or 18 ga), plastic decorative grass, green floral tape, silk Baby’s breath flowers, red ribbon, and tools.

 
Note: This craft project is only for your personal use. You may not reprint or distribute this material in any way. It is copyrighted.

 

Step 1. Find a vase for your bouquet.

Step 2. Fill the vase with red and white glass gems or plastic granules.

Step 3. Prepare Styrofoam for silk arranging. It may be a mugplug or a foam ball of the appropriate diameter. Cut the floral foam to the proper size so it will act as a stopper for the vase.

Step 4.

a) Cut 2 square pieces of green cellophane. Put the smaller piece on top of the larger piece, and then put the piece of Styrofoam in the middle of these cellophane pieces. Using two cellophane pieces gives a fuller appearance than using one piece.

b) Gather the cellophane up around the foam and insert it in the vase.

Step 5. Cover the foam with decorative plastic grass, securing it with floral pins as necessary.

Step 6. Make chocolate roses. For this arrangement, I made 12 chocolate roses.

a) Take red cellophane wrap, Lindt milk chocolate truffles or other chocolates, stem wire (16 or 18 ga), red curling ribbon, green floral tape, and tools.

b) Cut rectangular pieces of red cellophane wrap. I used 5” x 7” cellophane squares.

c) Attach Lindt truffles to the stem wire using green floral tape.
Note: This is just one method for attaching candy to sticks. There are different types of candies and respectively there are different methods for attaching them to sticks. 

d) Wrap the wired chocolate with a prepared piece of red cellophane creating a cylinder shape (the height of the cylinder is 5”); you can use a little piece of clear scotch tape to secure the cellophane as a cylinder. Make sure that the cellophane cylinder extends down past the chocolate over the stem. Tie a red curling ribbon around the cellophane at the base of the chocolate, leaving a little bit of cellophane beneath it. The chocolate rose is ready! Repeat these steps to make as many roses as you would like.

e) Insert the roses in the vase spacing them evenly all around.

Step 7. Insert the silk Baby’s breath flowers in the bouquet to fill in the bare spaces.

Step 8. Make a bow out of the red ribbon and attach it to the front of the vase using hot glue.

Congratulations on your beautiful rose bouquet!