| Candy bouquets make great centerpieces or | | | | such as fruit bon-bons in pastel wrappers for |
| gifts for just about any occasion. Here are | | | | Mother's Day or Easter and red/white hard |
| some instructions for creating your own candy | | | | peppermint candies for Christmas. Take a |
| topiary bouquet in either a flower pot or | | | | metal floral pin and stick it through the end |
| mug.1. Either buy/find a flowerpot or mug to | | | | of the candy wrapper (just outside the |
| match your theme. For instance, for Mother's | | | | twisted end) and then stick the floral pin |
| Day, you might want to use a flowerpot or mug | | | | with the attached candy on to the round |
| with a Spring floral theme.2. If you are | | | | Styrofoam topiary ball. Keep repeating this |
| using a mug, you will want to buy a piece of | | | | process until the entire ball is covered with |
| floral foam (to cut to size and put inside | | | | hard candies and you can't see any Styrofoam |
| the mug base), a dowel rod (to stick in the | | | | peeking through.5. To dress up the candy |
| base and form the topiary) and a Styrofoam | | | | bouquet, you can floral pin ribbons or small |
| ball (to stick at the end of the dowel rod | | | | silk flowers between some of the hard |
| and form the upper end of the topiary). If | | | | candies. Also, tie pieces of ribbon around |
| you are using a flower pot, you can buy the | | | | the dowel right below the Styrofoam ball. It |
| supplies described for the mug or you can buy | | | | looks great if you leave the ribbon tails |
| one of the pre-made topiary forms that set | | | | long enough to hang down and disguise the |
| directly in the flowerpot. I've seen these | | | | wood dowel. I recommend either using curling |
| forms with a Styrofoam pot-shaped base and | | | | ribbon or 1/2" wide organza ribbon for this |
| Styrofoam ball top at Michael's and Joanne | | | | task.You've successfully completed your candy |
| Fabrics. If you go with the pre-made form, | | | | topiary bouquet!Be sure to visit our |
| you can hot glue it directly into the flower | | | | Chocolate and Candy Gifts page to get more |
| pot.3. Once you have your form in either your | | | | great candy bouquet and candy gift-giving |
| mug or pot, you should hot glue Spanish moss | | | | ideas. We have edible candy bases and other |
| or other decorative items such as shells, | | | | unique candy gift ideas for birthdays, get |
| dried flowers, etc to the to the top of the | | | | well, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, |
| base foam to basically hide the foam that | | | | Mother's Day and more. Make your next candy |
| makes up the base.4. Buy some floral pins and | | | | bouquet gift memorable by buying it online at |
| hard candies. I recommend getting hard | | | | Cookie Gift Baskets. |
| candies that color-coordinate with your theme | | | | |