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