Recently it was International Women's Day. My daughter-in-law gave me a beautiful box of gingerbread cookies that she had prepared with her own hands. The gingerbread cookies were small, of various shapes and colors. Covered with multi-colored glaze, the delicacies depicted stars, mittens, and bean grains. It was a pleasure. I will remember this surprise of sweets on March 8 for a long time. I wanted to learn how to make souvenirs from sweets for my children and grandchildren.
Bouquet of sweets
This option for decorating sweets only seems difficult to make on your own. It's actually quite simple. To create a nice bouquet you will need wooden kebab skewers or toothpicks (depending on the height of the future bouquet), candy (preferably with a flat base), packaging cellophane and bright gift paper.
The candies (base up) are fixed on a skewer, wrapped in cellophane, and packaged in fancy paper. The gaps can be filled with artificial flowers and branches, tinsel, and smaller candies.
To give the bouquet additional beauty, you can use corrugated paper. It will make lovely roses, the center of which will be sweets.
A sweet gift for a girl can be presented in a vase, basket, flower pot, or cup. For stability, foam plastic is placed in the container, into which wooden sticks are stuck.
How to pack candies and sweets in organza: diagram, photo
Sweets in an organza bag are a rather cute, elegant and at the same time simple gift. To create such a find you need:
- Actually, organza
- Satin ribbons
- Sewing threads, pins
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Crochet hook - if you want to make threading ribbons easier
Here's what you need to create packaging for organza sweets.
You can get started:
- A piece of organza needs to be cut lengthwise. You should get two stripes.
This is how you need to cut a piece of organza for candy packaging
- On both cuts you need to smooth the edges.
IMPORTANT: You should retreat at least 4 cm.
This is how you need to smooth the edges on pieces of organza in the process of making candy packaging
- Using a sewing machine, you need to lay the first line on half of the foot. This must be done on both cuts. There is no need to trim the threads.
Processing pieces of organza during the production of candy packaging
- After retreating 1 cm, you need to lay another line.
This is what the final candy packaging looks like:
- Now each strip is cut into equal parts. How many parts - so many bags in the end.
Blanks for candy packaging
- Each piece needs to be folded in half. And so that the front part looks inward. For convenience, you can fasten the fabric with pins.
This is what the candy packaging looks like at this stage:
- Starting from the top edge, the future bag needs to be stitched . At the beginning of each line the thread is secured.
Candy packaging bags
- The bags are turned inside out and ironed.
Now the candy packaging bags look like this
- Next you need to cut the ribbons.
- Now all that remains is to make 4 holes to place the ribbons. You can get a seam ripper from the sewing machine kit. Or you can use small scissors with sharp ends.
IMPORTANT: Holes are made exclusively in the upper layers of the material!
This is how holes are made in the process of making candy packaging
- Next, the ribbons are inserted and tied into a knot. The bag is ready!
The process of threading ribbons into a packaging bag for organza sweets
This is the beauty that comes out in the end, but, of course, you can put more candies in such a package
Delicious sleigh
Making a sweet gift with your baby will be a wonderful time spent with your little one. Most often, New Year's crafts become such gifts.
And the simplest delicious surprise will be a sweet sleigh made from long candy canes and chocolate bars, rectangular sweets. You will also need glue and tape.
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The canes will represent runners, and a candy bar or small chocolate bar will be placed on top of them. The back of the sleigh is made from a small chocolate bar, and candies are used for the sides. All this is secured with small pieces of double-sided tape or glue.
To make the sleigh more festive, you can wrap it in cellophane and tie it with a satin ribbon or attach a bow.
Birthday gift
It is customary to present birthday people with sweets, bouquets, and present cakes to the table. What if these gifts were combined into an unusual mix?
Bouquet of sweets
A wonderful gift for the birthday girl would be a flower bouquet of sweets. This craft is not difficult to make; you just need a little talent, a little taste and a little diligence, and also:
- actually, candies (any kind will do, but it’s better to take light, round ones),
- crepe paper to make flower buds and petals,
- wooden skewers, long,
- decorative threads,
- scotch,
- ribbons,
- glue (or better yet, a glue gun).
The corrugated paper must be cut into sheets (8*12 centimeters), the blanks should be folded in half, and their ends should be rounded. Then we take the candies, secure each one with tape at the ends of the skewers and tightly wrap it with flower “petals” and secure it with thread. We form by stretching the edge of the corrugation. We should get a “rose” on a skewer, and inside the “rose” there is candy.
Now let's form the “leaves”. You need to cut out rectangles from green paper (about 0.7 * 10 centimeters), round the ends. Each flower will need 4-5 “leaves”, which need to be glued to the base of each “flower” so that they are slightly higher than the “petals”. You can twist the ends a little so that the overall “flower” looks more realistic. We also wrap the skewers in green paper and fasten the ends with glue.
We collect a flower bouquet in a spiral. We wrap it in corrugated paper, tie it with thread, and use decorations - organza and ribbons. As an addition to the original idea, you can decorate the craft with beads and bows. You can also place the bouquet in a decorative basket. Our original sweet gift is ready!
Candy cake
Another equally cute idea is a candy cake. It is suitable as a gift not only for children and women, but also for men. The cake can be made one-, two- and even three-tiered.
To work you will need:
- sweets that have an oblong cylindrical shape, or small chocolate bars,
- glue,
- beads, satin ribbons, small candy caramels in multi-colored candy wrappers for decoration,
- cardboard circles for the base (you will need as many of them as the number of tiers you have in mind).
The main tier of the cake is the bottom one. It must be strong enough to withstand all subsequent tiers together and with glued candies. You can also use a tray or flat plate as a base. All cardboard bases of the tiers must be covered with craft paper or painted with acrylic paints.
We assemble the cake in a spiral, from the middle to the edge, alternately gluing oblong candies, placed vertically, together. Be sure to use candies only in wrappers, because... glue should not get on the sweets.
Different tiers can be made from different types of candies. Upon completion, each tier must be tied with a satin ribbon as decoration and additional strengthening of the structure. The cake can be decorated with beads, bows, decorative flowers, butterflies, ladybugs, small toys - as your imagination dictates!
Christmas wreath
A New Year's wreath made of candies will not only be a lovely decoration, but also a completely unusual sweet present.
To make a wreath you will need a thick circle of cardboard, wool or fluffy tinsel, and candy.
The circle is wrapped with woolen threads, onto which candies and pine cones or Christmas balls are glued.
If you use tinsel, the candies can be secured in the spaces between the layers or lowered into the center of the wreath.
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Quick packing of sweets
A quick and easy way to pack candy for kindergarten or school is to put it in disposable cups.
Today, in any store you can easily purchase disposable cups of various shapes and colors at an affordable price. To prevent the candies from falling apart, cover the cups with a square of decorative paper or cellophane and secure with ribbon or an elastic band. Do you want to surprise everyone? Then show a little imagination. For example, you can make funny shoes with candies inside.
Christmas sock
Such a gift is usually given in Europe or America, but why not please your sweet tooth with an unusual surprise.
The sock itself can be made from any fabric, and completely different candies can be placed inside. And the festive mood is guaranteed.
How to beautifully and originally pack loose candies as a gift?
How about a whole basket of delicious bunnies ? They can be created according to the scheme proposed below. Each bunny has candy inside.
Using this scheme, you can create a bunny packaging for bulk sweets
Bunnies with candies, in turn, can be placed in some beautiful basket
But the packaging is made from ordinary cardboard rolls , which remain after using toilet paper. You can even use them to create unusual candy packaging! Diagram below:
Scheme for creating packaging for candies from a cardboard roll
IMPORTANT: It is preferable to additionally wrap them in cling film before placing the candies in the package. Of course, if the bulk sweets do not have individual packaging.
You can try to create an original, but at the same time very simple to make shoe packaging. For such work you will need:
- A plastic cup or plastic packaging from some product
- Some material such as fabric or crepe paper
- Waste piece of paper
- Ribbons, ribbons
Operating procedure:
- A piece of material is cut out - paper or fabric
This is the piece of material you need to cut out to make candy packaging
- The paper needs to be crumpled so that it turns into a tight ball.
- Then a paper ball and a cup are placed on the material as indicated in the photograph.
This is how the components of the future packaging for bulk sweets are placed
- Next, the cup and paper need to be wrapped as shown below.
So you need to start wrapping the candy packaging
So you need to continue wrapping the candy packaging
- Now the blank is tied up, decorated - and you get a cute shoe that can be filled with candies.
This is how the candy packaging shoes turn out
Chocolate card
If you are thinking about how to make a sweet present with your own hands, you can use the idea of making a chocolate card.
Such a gift can be made from melted chocolate and decorated with sprinkles or marzipan figures, make an inscription from cream or white chocolate, use multi-colored dragees or figured marmalade.
Materials
What can you use to make a sweet bouquet?
To make such a gift with your own hands, you can use:
- Chocolate bars or eggs.
- Piece sweets in individual packaging.
- Chocolate figures.
- Lollipops.
- Dragees like M&Ms, Skittles.
- Small packages of marmalade or marshmallows.
- Drinks in small containers.
It is best to choose sweets in individual packaging. This will prevent dust and dirt from getting on the sweets.
When choosing components for crafts, be sure to check the expiration dates of sweets and chocolates.
If the gift is intended for someone else’s child, then first check with the parents whether the child can have sweets.
Also, when creating a surprise from sweets, you need to take into account the age of the child. For younger children, a small bouquet of chocolate eggs with a toy inside is perfect.
For girls aged 10 years and older, the gift can be supplemented with drinks, chocolates and also an interesting toy.
A teenager will be more pleased with an original set of chocolate bars or an exquisite composition of candies such as “Raffaello”.
Sets in which all components are selected in the same color scheme look beautiful and stylish.
What other materials might be needed?
In addition to sweets, we need:
- Wooden skewers or wire for holding individual candies together.
- Corrugated paper.
- Glue, scissors, tape.
- Film, mesh or paper to pack the finished bouquet.
- Decorative ribbon, beads and other elements for decoration.
If the surprise is in the form of a basket or box of sweets, then you will need to prepare the necessary containers and foam to attach the composition.
Car
A sweet gift for a child’s birthday can be made in the form of a car. To do this, you need to make a blank from thick cardboard and paste it with sweets or small chocolates. Glasses can be made from foil or transparent paper.
You can make a chocolate house in the same way.
Tree
Let's look at how to make an original gift from candies in the form of a tree. To create such a gift, you need tools and materials such as a small pot for the base, a stick that will play the role of a tree trunk, you also need a ball, which can be either foam rubber or polystyrene foam, you will need moment glue, cotton wool discs, thread, paints, liquid clay, decorative elements and, of course, the candies themselves.
To make it, you need to take a stick and wrap it tightly with threads. Next, it is important to paint the barrel with white paint. You need to make a small hole in the ball, drop glue into it and insert the barrel so that it holds tightly. If you have a foam ball, then you need to cover it with cotton pads over the entire area, but for a foam ball you do not need to do this.
It is necessary to pour just enough liquid clay into the pot so that it is enough to hold the entire tree; you may have to wait until it dries, while you must constantly hold the trunk so that it dries in the clay in one position.
The crown of the tree must be painted the color of candy or any other color that you like best. When the paint on the crown has dried, you can proceed to gluing the candies using the same glue, be careful and wait until the glue dries so that the candy stays firmly on the tree. At the end, the pot can be decorated with decorative elements so that the composition does not look sparse.
Chocolate vases
Unusual stands for ice cream or any other dessert are easily created from melted chocolate and a balloon.
The lower part of the inflated ball is coated with vegetable oil, dipped in chocolate melted in a water bath, or patterns are drawn with it. The ball with chocolate is placed on a stand. She can serve it with a plate or a puddle of the same chocolate.
After the chocolate has completely hardened, the ball is carefully pierced and removed from the resulting vase. The resulting container is filled with ice cream, berries with whipped cream, fruits with liqueur.
Fruit sweets
Healthy sweets from fruits, berries and citrus fruits collected in an amazing bouquet. Berries and fruits can be covered in chocolate and matched in color and size. The main thing is a well-chosen color scheme of fruits and interesting packaging, both in the form of a wicker basket and in the form of a chicly decorated vase.
Sweet sausage
A delicious delicacy can be prepared from the most affordable products. To make sweet sausage you will need regular chocolate cookies, some marmalade, nuts or dried fruits, condensed milk and butter.
Cookies, condensed milk and butter are thoroughly mixed in a food processor until a plastic mass is obtained. Then fillings are added to it and the sausage is formed.
The finished product is packaged in polyethylene and placed in the freezer for a couple of hours. After this, the sweetness can simply be transferred to the refrigerator.
How to beautifully and originally package homemade handmade sweets as a gift?
Handmade sweets look best in small boxes processed using the decoupage technique. Such boxes are created as follows:
- The wooden blank for the box is carefully sanded and coated with primer .
IMPORTANT: This must be done on all sides of the workpiece.
- Then you can apply the background paint.
- After this, the decoupage napkin is separated from the base, applied to the surface and treated with glue on top.
To decorate a box for homemade sweets, for example, this decoupage napkin is ideal
- It's time to tackle the terrain. Experienced crafters recommend applying it with putty using a stencil.
- After the relief has dried, it should be slightly moistened with a damp cloth and then sanded . This step will prevent further chipping.
- Using a sponge, apply a little paint to the relief.
- Now you can apply the antique finish.
IMPORTANT: This coating should be lightly wiped with a cloth for a better effect.
- Next, the edges should be treated with bitumen - it will give a darkening effect.
- Now you need to apply shellac varnish.
- Once again, you can walk a little over the future box with sandpaper.
- All that remains is to decorate the outer part of the box to taste, and sprinkle the inside with coffee and cinnamon. This last step will make the box smell amazing when you open it - just what you need to store your handmade chocolates!
This is how you can make a beautiful handmade candy box
Delicious first aid kit
Very often, sweet vitamins are sold in gift shops, but you can easily make them yourself.
To do this, you will need small cute jars, multi-colored dragees and colorful paper on which you can write “Cure for depression”, “Cure for sadness”, “Cure for laziness”.
The jar is filled with dragees, sealed, and an inscription is hung on it. You can tie a bow at the neck.
Step-by-step master class
I offer you my master class with step-by-step photos of a beautiful gift of sweets. It has such a simple bouquet assembly scheme that this method is easily suitable for beginners.
So, we will need the usual set to create such a candy bouquet: a carbonated drink (or just tea in a bottle), Red Poppy, Cherry, Mamba, Skittles, Kit Kat candies, a large Alpen chocolate bar Gold", "Mentos".
We must attach each candy to a skewer using narrow tape. If the chocolate or sweet is large, then use several skewers. We fasten it on the reverse side, as in the photo.
You will have to tinker with the bottle. You need to attach more skewers to it, because... it's quite heavy. Use large tape and attach the skewers around the entire bottle, but not above half the height.
Well? Have you prepared everything? Then it's time to collect the bouquet.
Place the largest components at the back of the drink. They will peek out from behind the bottle and thereby additionally create a base.
Then place the new prepared sweets in front one by one. So I close the skewers on the drink.
Don’t forget to rewind everything at once with small tape.
Place one candy against it and immediately secure it with tape. This will make it easier for you to collect a bouquet.
Well, finally, it's time for little sweets. We place them everywhere to completely close our skewers and create volume.
Now we cut off the excess length of the skewers and make the handle the same length. And wrap it with wide tape.
So, when you give such a gift, the child will definitely not prick himself or get hurt.
It's time to pack. I used plain wrapping paper for this.
I arranged the paper lengthwise into a rectangle. I folded the edges inward and wrapped the bouquet. To make it easier to wrap, I made a cut along the bottom.
Additionally, I folded the paper and placed it at the back. I also did some pounds on the front. And here is the result. At the end you just need to tie it with a ribbon.
Cardboard cake
You can make small voluminous triangles from ordinary cardboard. Sweets are poured inside. All triangles are made in the form of a cake, the top is decorated with a large bow or a bouquet of artificial flowers.
There are a lot of options for creating a sweet surprise, so you can choose exactly the way to improve your mood and make an unusual gift that you like best and is not difficult to make.
Laptop
If you want to surprise a programmer or just a man who spends a lot of time at the computer, then we recommend that you make a gift laptop with your own hands, which will contain candies. To make it, you will need the box itself in the form of a laptop, PVA glue, a pencil, scissors, double-sided tape, as well as a picture of your desktop and the candies themselves.
The first step is to glue the desktop picture into place using double-sided tape. Next, you need to mark the keyboard using a pencil and ruler. After which you can start gluing the candy keys using double-sided tape.
At the end, the product can be decorated with a bow or other decorative element. It is better to take a box with a hinged lid, this way you won’t have to strain to glue the laptop cover, and it will also be easy to install additional elements.
Photos of sweet gifts
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