How to make a pleasant person for a holiday, anniversary, birthday and just for no reason? Present, in addition to the gift, a gorgeous bouquet decorated in an original style. Some flowers no longer surprise anyone, but compositions with fruits and vegetables can impress for a long time. We will tell you how to make a bouquet of fruits and vegetables with your own hands, we will give you step-by-step instructions with a photo.
It is necessary
- - long wooden skewers or bamboo sticks;
- - wax rope or twine;
- - floristic tape;
- - wide tape;
- - fruits (oranges, lemons, apples, bananas, pears - your choice);
- - vegetables (sweet and hot peppers, garlic, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, cabbage - whatever you want);
- - paper for packaging;
- - secateurs / scissors.
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare the necessary vegetables, berries, fruits for an "edible" bouquet, wash them thoroughly and dry them on a towel.
Step 2
Take bamboo sticks, carefully insert each into tomatoes, apples, onions, screw them with floral tape to the branches of grapes, rowan.
Step 3
For added originality, some vegetables and fruits can be cut in half by stringing each piece onto a separate skewer. Lemons, oranges, kiwi, carrots, cabbage, corn are suitable for this.
Step 4
Choose the largest vegetable or fruit, this will be the center of the composition. To make a bouquet of fruits with your own hands, collect the elements in a circle, spirals, in random order, securing every 2-3 sticks in your hand with wide tape.
Step 5
Correct the bouquet, level the height of some fruits, rewind the place where you held it with your hand with tape. Use pruning shears to cut the ends of the bamboo sticks to size.
Step 6
Decorate the finished bouquet with wrapping paper, tie it with twine, decorate with a ribbon bow if desired.
Step 7
The brighter the products in the bouquet and the wrapping paper, the more chic the composition with edible elements will look like. When assembling, you can add not only flowers, but also twigs of indoor plants, cones, cinnamon sticks, bunches of parsley, dill.
Step 8
You can collect a separate bouquet of fruits with your own hands for a woman and a composition of vegetables for her husband for marriage anniversary, housewarming, birth of a child. So the effect of an unusual gift will be even stronger.