How To Make A Beautiful DIY Candy Bouquet For Valentine's Day - Cassie Smallwood (2024)

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I’m always looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift idea for my guy. We don’t usually spend a lot of money for our Valentine gifts. So I have to find cheap Valentine gift ideas that look expensive.

Once I figured out how to make a DIY candy bouquet, I knew this would be the perfect gift for so many people and different occasions.

It seemed like most of the sweet bouquets online all looked similar. I wanted a candy bouquet that looked like candy flowers and looked professional.

I wanted to put together this step by step tutorial with full instructions so you can make your own candy bouquet for Valentine’s Day or any other occasion.

This is a great Valentine’s Day gift idea for a man or woman. Just adjust the colors of tissue paper you use to make your candy bouquet.

The sweet bouquet I’m going to show you here is mostly a chocolate bar bouquet, but you can use any candy you like to create yours.

You can also watch the full candy bouquet tutorial on my YouTube channel here.

These DIY Love Coupon Scratch Off Tickets make a great addition to this candy bouquet for your sweetie.

Materials To Make A DIY Candy Bouquet

You can find most or all of the materials you need to make a candy bouquet at Dollar Tree.

Be sure to get fun size candy for this candy bouquet.

  • Container to use for the base (bucket, box, mug, vase, etc.)
  • Styrofoam
  • Hot Glue
  • Paper Shred or Easter Grass
  • Wooden Skewers
  • Scotch Tape
  • Tissue Paper
  • Fun Size Candy Bars/ Chocolate Hearts/ Other Candy
  • Floral Picks (optional)
  • Fake Flowers (optional)
  • Ribbon
  • Scissors/Wire Cutters

How To Make A Candy Bouquet

Prepare Your Candy Bouquet Container

Fit your styrofoam to your container. Try to get a tight fit if possible.

Hot glue the styrofoam into the container.

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Add paper shred or Easter grass on top of the styrofoam to hide it.

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Cut Skewers For Candy Flowers

For this chocolate bar bouquet, you’ll need three sizes of skewers.

Leave 5 skewers full length.

Cut about an inch off of 8 skewers.

Cut about 2 inches off of 8 skewers.

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Put Candy On Skewers

Hot glue your candy onto the skewers. If you’re using chocolate bars or other chocolate candy, allow the hot glue to cool down for a couple of seconds before applying to the chocolate to prevent melting.

For candy bars, pull back the flap on the back and glue the skewer inside. Then close the flap over the skewer to hide it.

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Attach Flowers and Picks To Skewers

If you’re adding floral picks or fake flowers to your candy bouquet, attach those to skewers to give them a little more length.

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Make A Bow and Attach To Skewer

You can use any kind of bow you like for this DIY candy bouquet. Curly ribbon bows look really cute as well as bows made from ribbon.

Once your bow is made, cut a skewer so that your bow can stick into the styrofoam at the front of your container in the position you want.

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Add Tissue Paper To Candy Skewers To Make Candy Flowers

Cut tissue paper into 6″x6″ squares. They don’t have to be perfect.

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Now stick a skewer through the middle of a tissue paper square and push it up almost to the candy so it makes it look like a candy flower.

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Pinch the bottom of the tissue paper and use Scotch tape to attach the pinched area to the skewer.

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Add a second piece of tissue paper on the same skewer so that when pressed up the top of the tissue paper almost touches the tissue paper above it. These are like leaves for your candy flowers.

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The tissue paper is meant to hide the skewer and make it look like flowers.

Do this for all of the candy flowers as well as the floral picks. The fake flowers don’t really need tissue paper because they will be mostly hidden.

Assemble The Candy Bouquet

Now that all of your candy flowers are made, it’s time to put the candy bouquet together.

Use one of your longest candy flower skewers and stick it in the center of the styrofoam. This will be the highest point of your candy bouquet.

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From this point, you’ll make a t shape. Use the longest length candy skewers and place just a little below the center candy skewer.

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Next, use the medium candy skewers and place them just a little below the ones above.

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Then add the smallest candy flower skewers just below those.

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Now you should have a t shape of candy.

The next thing you need to do is fill in the four quadrants you’ve created within the t shape.

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Assemble these areas just as you did the t shape using the medium and short candy skewers.

Now you should have a nice full candy bouquet without any empty spaces.

Place in fake flowers and floral pics wherever you want them. You may have to cut them down some to make them fit where you like.

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Attach the bow

Find the center on the front of your candy bouquet and stick the skewer you attached to your bow into the styrofoam.

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If you’d like to write a special message to attach to your candy bouquet, grab my cute free printable Valentine tags.

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FAQs

How to make a candy bar bouquet in a vase? ›

Supplies: vase, candy bars, tape, wood skewers, tissue paper, and ribbon. Directions: tape each wood skewer to the back of each candy bar. Then add the candy bars on the wood skewer into the vase. Then add candy into the vase and fill it to the very top.

How to make a candy gram? ›

4 Simple Steps for Hosting a Holiday Candy Gram Fundraiser
  1. Gather your supplies. To make each candygram, you'll need three basic materials: candy, cardstock print-outs, and ribbon. ...
  2. Set your price per candy gram. ...
  3. Open your sales point(s). ...
  4. Deliver the candy grams.

How do I make my own bouquet? ›

How to create your own flower bouquet:
  1. Cut and strip flower steams.
  2. Gather flowers into three equal-sized bunches.
  3. Tie each bunch together with string.
  4. Bring the three bunches together.
  5. Tie and secure the bunches with string.
  6. Cut stems to an equal length.
  7. Wrap bouquet in cellophane.
  8. Secure with cello tape.

What do you put on the bottom of a candy bouquet? ›

HOW TO:
  1. Run a line of hot glue down both the wooden skewers and the candies (whatever you choose for her!). ...
  2. Layer your tissue paper, but make sure it's staggered to create more dimension. ...
  3. Carefully fold tissue paper up towards the bottom of bouquet. ...
  4. Tie the bottom of the bouquet with ribbon and voila!
Jun 26, 2019

How do you make a sweetie bouquet? ›

Here are the steps you must take to make your chocolate bouquet from scratch.
  1. Step 1: Select Your Recipient's Favourite Chocolate or Snack. ...
  2. Step 2: Glue Your Treats. ...
  3. Step 3: Create Your Bouquet Box. ...
  4. Step 4: Place Foam at the Bottom of Your Chocolate Bouquet Box. ...
  5. Step 5: Add Coloured Tissue Paper. ...
  6. Step 6: Add the Chocolates.
Jan 7, 2022

How to make a Valentine package? ›

Cupid's Care Packages

To pretty up plain cardboard boxes, gather cupcake liners in a few different sizes, fold them into halves and quarters, and arrange them on the lids however your heart desires, securing them with double-sided tape. Fill the boxes with crinkle shreds and nestle gifts inside.

What materials do you need for a candy bouquet? ›

candy bouquet in a tall vase. Here are my supplies... wooden skewers (in background), vase, foam, paper napkin, and candy (main candy not pictured).

How to make a mini candy bouquet? ›

You'll want to tape a skewer and some curling ribbon to the back of the candy bar that you'll be including in the DIY candy bouquet. Shorten the skewers that will be towards the front of the bouquet. Just stick the skewers (with the candy attached) into the foam block a couple of inches.

How do you make a simple bouquet? ›

How to Make a Floral Bouquet
  1. Choose the best flowers. Consider the color scheme, season, budget, and scent when you're picking your flowers. ...
  2. Remove any leaves and thorns. ...
  3. Start with a focal flower and build around it. ...
  4. Add filler flowers. ...
  5. Wrap the stems. ...
  6. Add any finishing touches.
Jun 7, 2021

How to make a simple chocolate bouquet? ›

How to Make a Chocolate Bouquet
  1. What You Need to Make a Chocolate Bouquet. ...
  2. Step 1: Select Your Recipient's Favourite Chocolate or Snack. ...
  3. Step 2: Glue Your Treats. ...
  4. Step 3: Create Your Bouquet Box. ...
  5. Step 4: Place Foam at the Bottom of Your Chocolate Bouquet Box. ...
  6. Step 5: Add Coloured Tissue Paper. ...
  7. Step 6: Add the Chocolates.
Jan 7, 2022

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