DIY fruit bouquets

Fragrant fruit gift compositions can be a great gift for any person. Anyone can compose them at home. The main thing is to understand the basic principles of making edible bouquets.

Before starting work, you need to prepare all the necessary tools in advance.

1. Wooden skewers. They are used to fix the fruit. The optimal length of the skewers is 20-30 centimeters. They can be used to create a beautiful bouquet with long stems.
2. Scotch. Plain transparent tape is used to hold individual parts together. To combine all this into one whole (a large bouquet), you can use Styrofoam or a floral sponge.
3. Scissors and a knife. They are needed to work both with fruits and with items used for decoration. All instruments must be sharp. In this case, all slices will be neat.
4. Wrapping paper. To decorate the bouquet, you can use pieces of craft paper left over at home or special packing materials. To compose the composition in the box, small paper boxes or unnecessary candy packaging are used. The bouquet in a small wicker basket will also look beautiful.
5. Ribbons and twine. You can decorate the composition with colored ribbons or twine. The choice of such decorative trifles depends on the wishes of the person.

Before use, the fruits must be rinsed and wiped well. As a rule, the following products are chosen to create edible bouquets.

• Fruits. To create compositions, you can use both seasonal and tropical. It is best to pay attention to dense fruits that do not drain out of juice and do not choke on contact with each other. Bouquets of lemons, tangerines, apples, grapefruits and pomegranates are beautiful.

• Vegetables. You can make your gift more useful by adding some vegetables to the fruit. Most often, craftsmen use carrots, radishes or beets. These products do not run out of juice and do not lose their attractiveness for a long time.

• Berries. You can decorate a composition consisting of fruits with berries. Most often, large strawberries or grapes are used to decorate bouquets.

• Nuts. The addition of fresh nuts will make the bouquet not only original, but also more useful. It is recommended to buy nuts unpeeled. They are much easier to attach to a skewer.

• Sweets. Both little ones and adults with a sweet tooth will love the fruity bouquet with sweets. You can use any candy or chocolate figurines to decorate a simple composition.

• Greens. To make the bouquet look more colorful and realistic, the fruits can be diluted with fresh herbs. You can use parsley, rosemary, dill or spinach, as well as the foliage of various plants.

• Flowers. When making bouquets, you can also add some fresh flowers to them. They are bought together with special extension cords that can keep the plants fresh. You can buy these cones at most flower shops.

• Natural decor. To decorate fruit gifts, you can use natural materials, for example: cones, dry herbs, spruce branches, spikelets. They are attached to skewers with a glue gun or tied with twine.

When assembling simple edible bouquets, you need to adhere to the following rules.

1. Each fruit is put on a skewer without piercing it through. So it looks like a real flower. One skewer will be enough to attach a small fruit. Larger fruits are fixed at 2-3.
2. Having secured the fruit, you need to make sure that it fits snugly on the skewer. To do this, you need to shake it slightly, holding it by the base.
3. Making a bouquet of fruits with your own hands, some of the fruits can be cut. Some divide in half. The top is cut off the rest. To prevent the fruits from winding up after this procedure, their surface is carefully wrapped with cling film.
4. Some masters decorate their bouquets with figuratively cut fruits. But such compositions are short-lived. Therefore, you need to create them immediately before delivery to the recipient. Otherwise, the fruit will become chapped and lose its attractiveness.
5. The berries are attached to the skewers in a different way. If you pierce them, they will simply drain out of juice. Therefore, you need to choose small bunches of berries and tie them to the base to the sticks. The attachment point can be additionally decorated with green take-tape and real twigs.
6. When composing a composition, the brightest or largest fruit is placed in its center. The rest of the products surround him. The smallest fruits or berries are used to decorate the finished work.
7. The assembled composition is fastened with adhesive tape. The step-by-step process of assembling a large bouquet consists of several stages. First, you need to collect small "inflorescences", connecting 3-4 parts. After that, separate parts of the bouquet are once again fastened with tape. The finished composition should be neat. Not a single detail should fall out of the bouquet.
8. When the composition is ready, you can start packing it. As a rule, such bouquets are decorated in the same way as regular flower bouquets.The first thing to do is cut the paper into several rectangles of the same size. Then the bouquet is laid diagonally on one of them. The bottom of the selected sheet is wrapped and glued with tape. After that, the bouquet is placed on another rectangle and this procedure is repeated. In the same way, the bouquet is wrapped in two other layers of the package. As a result, it should be completely wrapped in wrapping paper.
9. It only remains to tie its base with a ribbon or twine. Decorating the bouquet this way is optional. But this adds to his appeal.

Beautiful examples of works will help inspire novice creators to make interesting bouquets.

Fresh strawberries and small bush roses are used to create such a delicate and romantic bouquet. For work, it is worth choosing large fruits. It is desirable that they are the same size. A master class on creating such bouquets consists of the following stages.

1. Each berry must be fixed on a bamboo skewer.
2. Roses must be placed in special cones filled with water.
3. After that, you can start composing the composition. Parts must be fastened to each other using tape. They should be located close to each other.
4. When everything is ready, the skewers can be trimmed.
5. Next, the bouquet should be wrapped in paper and decorated with a spectacular bow.

Such a bouquet may well become a full-fledged gift for a small holiday. The main thing is to choose a bottle of quality wine that the recipient will definitely like. It is quite simple to make such a bouquet yourself.

In the center of this composition is a bottle of wine. Large fruits are fixed around it on a skewer. The next row consists of smaller fruits. At the end of the work, the skewers are connected with tape. The finished bouquet is wrapped with craft paper.

This composition will appeal to fans of bright autumn colors. It is based on yellow and orange fruits. You can use oranges, tangerines, lemons, grapefruit, kumquat and persimmons in your work. All fruits are neatly fixed on skewers and connected to each other. The finished composition is complemented by green leaves. This helps to "revive" her.

This simple composition is based on a bottle of alcoholic beverage. But it is quite possible to do without such an addition. Citrus fruits are used to create the bouquet. Cutting some of them, the composition can be made not only beautiful, but also fragrant.

The peculiarity of this bouquet is that it is not necessary to use scotch tape or foam to create it. Fruit "flowers" are placed in a wooden box. Therefore, it turns out to be quite stable.

A bottle is placed in the center of the selected box. Large fruits are located around it. They are complemented by smaller or cut fruits. All are decorated with fresh green foliage and a ribbon to match.

For information on how to make a fruit bouquet with your own hands, see the next video.