Making a bouquet of toys

Stuffed toys bouquet - a good composition, appropriate as a gift for a child or girl for any occasion. Such a surprise is also suitable as a present to young parents in honor of the birth of the heir.

The toy bouquet is suitable for most holidays and will fit into any interior. It can be placed in a vase or simply placed on the table. It will decorate any place and will look solemn and cute against the background of other gifts.

You can create such a wonderful bouquet with your own hands by preparing certain materials and tools.

• Stuffed Toys... Medium-sized toys are preferred. Too small animals are not visible in the bouquet, and too large ones will only spoil the visual beauty of the bouquet. Toys that fit in the palm of your hand are the best option for composing a harmonious composition.
• Floristic wire needed to compose a bouquet, and in large quantities. You need to take into account the number of toys that are supposed to be included in the bouquet. You can use plastic clamps that are used by an electrician.
• Corrugated paper. The minimum required quantity for one bouquet is 2 rolls. The color is selected at individual discretion. The main thing is that it is harmoniously combined with toys, which will be the main components in the bouquet.
• Satin ribbon and cut of paper decorative ribbon. Each of them will be needed with a margin of about 2 m. Although you can choose one, this is a matter of your own preferences. In practice, both are always used, each for different types of decor of the decorated bouquet.
• Decorative items. All kinds of beads, feathers, bows and other details that are conceived in your concept. They can be purchased in addition, if not enough, and added as you work.
• Thermal gun or silicone glue. The best choice is to use a hot glue gun. Since it provides a reliable and strong fixation. In addition, this glue dries very quickly, which significantly saves time.
• Stationery. You will need double-sided and regular tape, scissors (curly), a ruler, pencils. These are the items that should always be present on the work surface.
• Package... It is advisable to purchase special materials from a florist shop. If there is no way to spend time or money on this, then you can connect your imagination and play with a wrapper made of handy materials. For example, use an old newspaper. By the way, now it is in trend. Any product packaged in a newspaper edition looks modern and stylish.

The whole process of making a bouquet is divided into separate stages. You need to dwell on the description of each in more detail.

· Cut out a circle from whatman paper, a little more in diameter than the base for the bouquet. A regular dinner plate can serve as a template..

• Cut out a small triangle from the circle and glue its edges, creating a funnel.
• Let's prepare a sheet of A4 paper and roll it into a tube. This will be the composition handle. We will make notches at one of its ends. With their help, we will fix, using glue, a handle on a paper base made from a circle.
• Cut out a strip of crepe paper 12-14 cm wide, equal to the circumference of the paper funnel. Fold it in half and slightly stretch the edge along the fold with your fingers, forming a wave.
• Then we put crepe paper on the edges of the funnel so that both the inside and the front side cover the edge of the base. To do this, you need to use glue.
• On the front side, with an additional piece of crepe of the color used, you need to close the funnel and the handle of the bouquet, place the gluing together with a beautiful ribbon tied with a lush bow.

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Time to start making the base.

• The frame can be polystyrene or special floristic foam. A circle must be cut out of them, onto which the toys are further planted. Its width depends on how many design elements are to be placed.
• The prepared base should be pasted over with white crepe and placed in a funnel. For reliability, it is recommended to use hot melt glue. Then you need to make a hole in the foam, insert a leg into it and fix it with hot melt glue.
• Organza is needed to drape the base. She needs to wrap a bouquet. Glue the edges or use the staple staples.

Now you need to fix the toys in the right position and decorate the composition with corrugated paper, bows, sweets, paper flowers, etc.

For the candy toy version you need:

• Stuffed Toys;
• long skewers;
• glue;
• Scotch;
• corrugated paper;
• candies;
• packing net;
• a piece of styrofoam;
• satin or silk ribbon;
• threads.

Let's consider how to make a bouquet.

• First of all, it is necessary to prepare the components of the bouquet - delicious chocolates, then fix them on the skewers with adhesive tape, make 4-5 blanks.

• We proceed to the design, cut off a square from the packing net, fold all the corners towards the center. The resulting blank must be folded lengthwise, inserted into the middle of a skewer with candy, wrap the candy with a net and secure under it with a satin ribbon.

• Now is the time to get started with stuffed toys. Everything is simple here. We pierce toys with skewers. Cut out a rectangle from the mesh, fold it along the long side. We roll it up and fix it with threads. Now let's put it on a skewer.

• The frame can be made from several A4 sheets glued along the long side like a bag. Wrap the leg with tape. Cut out a circle with a diameter equal to the frame from the foam. You can assemble it from pieces of styrofoam. We wrap it with corrugated paper.

• From the inside we glue the paper with lace. Now we place the skewers with the animals, having previously determined the length. We complement the composition with sweets and roses. We wrap the leg with tape.

A bouquet can be made from one large toy placed in the center, among sweets and inedible decor. Any soft toy is chosen, sweets are also to your taste.

Very well the children's version of the bouquet is complemented by kinder-surprises, transparent bags filled with colored dragees.

A bouquet with toys in a basket is a good alternative to a standard flower arrangement; it will even suit a wedding. You will need the following materials and tools:

• three soft animals;
• a box of Rafaello chocolates;
• a piece of golden crepe paper;
• a piece of organza;
• wicker basket of any shape;
• hot melt glue;
• wire;
• packing net;
• satin ribbon (braid).

Consider the manufacturing process.

• Outside, wrap the basket with golden crepe paper. Along the bottom edge, you can start up the braid to match or decorate with beads. Bend the upper edge into the basket using hot melt glue.

• Cut out squares from the grid and paste over the surface inside the basket with them. Place the segments in a circle in one row. We will make another row from a mesh folded in small bags. We glue the handle of the basket with a satin ribbon 2.5 cm wide, wrapping it gradually from edge to edge. Let's start with a thinner braid from above - 0.5-1 cm.

• We proceed to filling the basket. If it is deep, then a piece of Styrofoam wrapped in paper should be placed under the box of chocolates. It needs to be glued to the bottom of the box. In this version of the gift, the toys are to be attached to the box. On the lower legs of soft toys, you need to glue pieces of double-sided tape and attach them to the package.

There are no specific rules for making up toy bouquets. Here, full scope for a flight of imagination is allowed. The composition can be assembled from any number of toys, combining with fabrics of different texture, shiny foil, all kinds of sweets and floral components.

In this case, you can still follow some tips that will help in the process.

• For making bouquets, all kinds of soft toys that you like, including musical ones, are suitable.
• Most often, when drawing up such compositions, bears are used 10-15 cm in height. But not necessarily. Plush bouquets can be of completely different designs. For example, on March 8, bears in red vests sitting on a heart-shaped base are suitable for a beloved girl.
• On her birthday, a little girl can be pleased with pink animals. Their number is selected according to the age of the hero of the occasion. Details will help to place bright accents. For example, the use of bears with a rosette on their heads or in a contrasting dress.
• A certain color scheme should be adhered to due to the fact that the bouquet is supposed to be decorated with a bright wrapper, supplemented with foil and other catchy materials. If you combine them with the same bright toys, the composition will turn out to be ridiculous and tasteless. Therefore, it is important to think over the combination of colors in the future product in advance. If this seems tricky, the color wheel will come to the rescue.
• A piece of thin plastic pipe will do to make the stem of the bouquet. It is also convenient to make it from a thick magazine cover. That is, anything that has the shape of a cylinder and is able to withstand the weight of the bouquet will be suitable.
• The easiest way to put toys on the base is to glue them with glue from a pistol. But this option is suitable for creating a bouquet for a gift for an adult who does not want to play with toys. To make the elements removable, you will need floral wire. It will securely fix toys on the base. You can thread a piece of wire through the toy and stick both edges into the base.
• Another option for attaching toy bears and bunnies is tying them to sticks with special plastic clamps. Sticks are stuck in a foam base as standard.
• There is also a safe and at the same time cute way of attaching the elements of a bouquet - with the help of beautiful ribbons tied with bows. This will be an additional decoration for the bouquet, giving it a flirty look.