DIY St. Patrick's Day Candy Bouquet
Learn How to Make A St. Patrick's Day Candy Bouquet for family and friends!
Servings 1
Ingredients
- Various candy items choose your favorites
- wooden skewers or long lollipop sticks
- double-sided tape
- container
- Styrofoam or floral foam
- ribbon
Instructions
- Each piece of candy will need to be stuck to the stick in some fashion. Place the stick about half way up the back of the candy wrapper and then use clear packing tape to tape the stick to the wrapper. If you are worried about the sticks showing, you can use a small piece of double-sided tape on top the packing tape where you can stick on some green crinkle shred.
- Alternatively, you can add cute felt leaves to make each piece look like a flower on a stem. Just cut leaf shapes out of green felt or even green paper. Sprinkle the leaves with sparkles or glitter for an even more festive appearance. The stems will need to be wrapped with green tape. You can use floral tape or you can use green duct tape.
- When you’ve got all your candy sticks ready, you’re going to stick them into the container. When it comes to selecting a container, the options are really endless, but some of the most popular choices are Irish or St. Patrick’s Day coffee mugs, shamrock-covered gift boxes, green gift baskets, rainbow or leprechaun themed flower pots, vases and festive bowls. Don’t rely on the container keeping everything standing up straight.
- You’ll want to use Styrofoam or floral foam so that they stay put. Cut the floral foam to fit snuggly inside the container so that it won’t tip from side to side once you’ve arranged the candy stems. Then, stick the flower stems into the Styrofoam or floral foam and arrange so that they look like a bouquet. Keep in mind that you can cut the skewers with a wire cutter or scissors. This will allow you to make candy tiers with stems on shorter sticks in the front and taller candy stems in the back of the container.
- Tie a ribbon, add a bow around your container, or add a St. Patrick’s Day pick and you’ve got a beautiful candy bar bouquet. Fill the remaining space in the container with additional scattered candy, shred, or green colored tissue paper or cellophane to hide any skewers or sticks that might be showing.
