Bell with a bouquet

My girlfriend works as a primary school teacher. This year, she is gaining new guys and is already looking forward to September 1. Surely, her students will bring many bouquets of autumn flowers in addition to a sweet souvenir. And what about a bouquet of fresh flowers? It will stand a maximum of 3-5 days and wither. Therefore, I believe that such a fleeting gift is a complete waste of money. And I prepared an original gift for my girlfriend on September 1st.
Your children will soon go to study too, and you can make a similar surprise with your own hands. This is a bell made of corrugated paper with a bouquet of sweets. How? This workshop will provide answers to your questions.
Prepare the following components for work:
- a piece of foam;
- a small plastic bottle;
- scissors;
- double sided tape;
- toothpicks;
- white satin ribbon;
- corrugated paper in several shades;
- sweets in yellow packaging.
To form a bell, take a small plastic bottle (0.5 liter), cut it in half. What is needed is the upper part, it resembles a school bell.
Now you need to cut a circle out of dense polystyrene that is larger in diameter than the hole in the cut workpiece.
Lock the circle on the plastic cut. You just need to push the workpiece into a flexible foam.
Then proceed to decorate the bell. Corrugated paper can be used. Cut a piece and wrap around a plastic blank. To fix the paper on the plastic, it is better to use double-sided tape.
On the neck you can immediately tie a white satin ribbon in the form of a bow.
To make a bouquet of sweets, you need to take toothpicks and sweets in light orange or yellow packaging. It will look beautiful with any shade of paper. Another important point, candies must be soft so that they are pierced with a wooden stick.
Fasten the toothpicks in the center of the sweets, glue the top end of the package with double-sided tape to the oval, and the second to the toothpick.
Cut four stripes of blue corrugated paper.
Stretch the top edge of the paper and twist it slightly to form the petals. Wrap the strip around the candy and fix the bottom edge with thread in the color of the paper.
It turns out small roses.
The second version of the flowers! You can immediately cut the petals and attach them around the yellow center. It turns out gentle purple buds.
You still need to form green elements yourself. To do this, cut the light green corrugated paper into squares and glue to the toothpick half. Small leaves for a bouquet come out.
When all the blanks are formed, you can begin to make a bouquet.
Three purple buds are placed in the center of the bell, and around them are four blue roses.
With green elements, fill the empty spaces in the foam base.
The bouquet is ready! It looks magnificent and unusual.
You can tie a white ribbon to the edge, for which the bell is hung on the handle.
If you want, decorate the bouquet with a paper dove (symbol of peace) or an autumn openwork leaf. These elements can serve as a card in which congratulatory words or wishes are written.
Here is such a great surprise you can present to your beloved teacher on the eve of the new school year.