Making Valentine Candy Bouquets With a Plastic Tumbler

Heart lollipops make a pretty center for your paper flower faces.

Valentine's Day gifts are fun to give and receive. Gifts of sweets appear friendly and appropriate for many settings; give them to friends and coworkers without draining your pocketbook. Create attractive candy bouquets using items available at most big box and grocery stores.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil
• Paper
• Construction, wrapping or scrapbook paper
• Scissors
• Lollipop
• Removable mounting putty
• Tape
• Ribbon
• Individually wrapped candies
• Plastic tumbler
• Valentine stickers

Instructions

1. Draw a group of five circles in a circle so that the sides of the circles touch, but leave an empty space in the center of the circles. This provides you a flower face with a space for a candy center. Draw long spear-shaped leaves to attach to your flowers. Draw a heart stencil that you can use to make a message heart that attaches to each plastic tumbler to contain your Valentine message. Cut out the shapes and use them as stencils for your candy bouquets.

2. Trace the flower face, leaf and heart stencils on construction, wrapping or scrapbook paper. Trace two leaves per flower face, one flower face per lollipop and one heart per tumbler. Combine different patterns and colors to coordinate the bouquets with the plastic tumblers. Cut out the shapes. Remove the empty centers from the flower faces.

3. Attach the flower face to each lollipop using removable mounting putty around the edges. A round lollipop works best if inserted from the back of the flower face. A heart-shaped lollipop, or other shape, works best if the flower face is attached to the back of the lollipop. Tape the leaves to the lollipop stem just below the flower face.

4. Prepare four or more lollipop flowers for each plastic tumbler. Cut a length of ribbon and tie the ribbon in a bow around each lollipop stem below the leaves.

5. Add a layer of candy kisses, candy hearts or other individually wrapped candies to the bottom of the plastic tumbler. Place the candy bouquet in the tumbler so the bouquet rests on top of the other candies.

6. Write your message to the recipient on a paper heart and tape it to the plastic tumbler. Decorate the heart and tumbler with Valentine stickers.