How to make a candy tree with your own hands. Video: Master class Bouquet of sweets. Topiary made from knitting threads

Sweet gifts have been in demand at all times. Any sweet tooth will be delighted with a box of chocolates given to him, so sweets remain universal gifts , especially if there is nothing else to give.

But for many people, ordinary sweets do not seem like an attractive gift, because for every holiday they want to receive something unusual and original. And in this case they will help amazing creations - sweet topiary.

The word “topiary” was originally used exclusively by gardeners and landscape designers, because it was the name of the art of designing and caring for a garden. Since ancient times, gardeners have decorated the houses of the nobility with unusual triangular and spherical trees. It was believed that such decorations would bring happiness and wealth to the owner of the house, so every person of high status sought to have such a tree in their garden. Modern gardeners have improved their skills, and now in parks all over the world you can find amazing sculptures of animals and various figures made from ordinary trees.

Not so long ago, the term “topiary” moved into the field of needlework. However, the word has practically not changed its meaning. In needlework it also means a round tree, but only made from various materials: sweets, coffee, money and other things. Superstitious people believe that such a gift symbolizes success and smart thoughts in the head, so such a tree will only bring positive emotions. The article will focus on do-it-yourself candy topiary, master classes for which are presented below.

Gallery: sweet topiary (25 photos)

Next topiary can be made from any candy. Candies whose candy wrapper is twisted into a small tail are especially suitable, so it will be easier to attach them to the product. Making a candy tree with your own hands is easy if you follow the master class below.

Use if desired decorative flowers mixed with candies or other similar decorations, so that when the sweets are removed from the tree, the decoration does not deteriorate and can be used as decoration.

Chupa Chups topiary

Good for these ornamental trees lollipops - lollipops and their analogues. When making candy trees Special attention is given specifically to them, because they will not need to be additionally tied to a wooden skewer; they can be inserted into the product on sticks already attached to the lollipops. In addition, lollipop topiary is cheaper: lollipops cost only a few rubles and are cheaper to buy than chocolate candies. Making a lollipop tree is very simple, he will tell you about it next master class:

1. Take the base ( foam ball) and start piercing it with lollipops until you cover the entire crown of the tree with them, except for a small hole at the bottom.
2. Attach the ball to the trunk, a stable stick.
3. Place the product in a pot filled with polyurethane foam. Make sure that the topiary is securely attached to the pot and will not break, even if several people pull the candies out of it at once. It is especially important to check the strength of the product if it is given as a gift to small children.
4. Decorate the tree using ribbons, fabric, acrylic paints, rhinestones, buttons and any other decorative items.

candy apple

Interesting topiary, the production of which does not require a lot of time, effort and materials - an apple. Master Class below will tell you in detail how to make one original gift with your own hands:

1. Wrap the candies on a wooden skewer with tape. Wrap each candy in a small piece of floral organza, as if making a small bouquet.
2. Make holes in the foam ball with a stick, pour a little glue into each, and then insert wooden skewers with wrapped candies into them, filling absolutely the entire area of ​​the ball.
3. Attach a small stick, tube or real branch to the top. Pre-wrap the stick in crepe paper Brown(if you are using a tree branch, you can omit this step).
4. Decorate with decorative leaves or cut them out of thick colored paper.

Sweet bouquet

To make a good topiary, you don't have to make a whole tree. Such large items are usually difficult to transport if the recipient lives nearby and you do not have your own transport.

In this case it will be much easier to bring candy topiary, a master class on the production of which is described below, if the tree is in the form of a bouquet:

1. Using the familiar pattern, attach the candies to a long wooden skewer.
2. Cut out several petals from a sheet of red (pink, white, any other rose color) crepe paper different forms and sizes.
3. Take a small rectangular sheet the size of your chosen candy and wrap it around it, making the base for the bud.
4. Now start attaching the rose petals by tucking top part to achieve the effect of a blooming flower. Secure each attached petal with tape. Wrap the candy so that it can be seen by looking inside.
5. Cut out a green sepal, make a hole in the middle and attach it to the base of the bud.
6. Wrap the stem in the form of a wooden skewer in green crepe paper. If desired, wrap the buds in organza “skirts”.
7. Assemble the bouquet and wrap it in two layers of crepe paper. The first layer should cover the entire bouquet up to the flowers, and the second layer is made slightly smaller than the first and is used as a decoration. You can wrap the bouquet with floral fabric in a second layer.

Marmalade is children's favorite sweet, and it is from this that you can make a wonderful decoration for a sweet table - a bouquet of marmalade with your own hands. This beauty will delight any child and will also make an excellent and creative candy dish. Making a marmalade bouquet with your own hands is very simple:

1. Buy marmalade different colors: necessarily yellow (the core of the flower) and any others.
2. Take a piece of cellophane film and place it on your palm. Place a yellow marmalade in the center, and arrange the rest around it in the shape of a flower.
3. Pierce the core with a wooden skewer, pushing it forward a little, and then carefully wrap the marmalade in film without ruining the shape of the flower. Tie the film tightly so that the product does not fall apart inside.
4. Color the “stem” in green color or wrap it with green paper. If desired, attach decorative leaves and wrap the bouquet in a sheet of colored paper. Flowers can also be placed in a pot or basket.

DIY topiary “Clock”

Such a gift will be especially relevant for New Year. Making a watch with your own hands is quite simple and the following master class will prove this:

1. Cut two circles of the required size from cardboard.
2. Wrap them in corrugated paper.
3. Make a strip of cardboard that can easily wrap around circles. Wrap it in colored paper.
4. Roll the ribbon into a circle and place the previously cut circles on both sides. The result is three-dimensional circles.
5. Glue candies onto a cardboard strip (it is best to choose ones in the form of sticks).
6. Decorate the front side of the watch with beads, gluing them along the edges using a glue gun. Use beads of a different color to lay out the hands and symbols of the clock. You can add a small piece of tinsel and decorate it with a bell.

DIY candy topiary, the master classes for which were shown above are quite simple to do if you put in a little effort.

Just a little imagination - and even banal gift will be presented solemnly and beautifully. This statement concerns and, which can be put into very original form and turn it into a bright present. So, we will talk about how to make topiary from candy. This is a miracle tree made of Raffaello, marmalade, coffee beans, Chupa Chups and other sweets will be a delicious present with which you will successfully decorate your festive table.

Help you make your own candies step-by-step instruction our master class.

History of the concept

As you already understand, we call topiary a decorated tree whose crown is made from confectionery and other items. Let's take a look at the history of this concept:

There is nothing complicated about making a tree from sweets. So, spending a minimum of effort and money, you will be able to bring your loved ones a lot of joy.

Preparing for work

The main elements of a candy tree are:

• Bright crown.
• Sturdy leg of appropriate diameter.
• A pot, jar or tub with candy at the base.

The base needs to be heavy enough to support the weight of the topiary.

The composition must include the following:

• A ball of papier-mâché or polystyrene foam as the basis for the crown.
• A wooden stick, spoon or rod - leg.
• A container that serves as a pot for a tree.

Additionally, the tree may have:

• For the crown - a variety of sweets.
• For the leg - sparkles, bows, rhinestones, shiny coating.
• To fill the pot - pebbles, live moss, large beads, coins, candies.

There is an almost innumerable variety of options for making a bouquet of sweets. The photo clearly demonstrates how original and unusual the models are. Using them as a basis, you can come up with your own design.

Candy tree master class

Before starting the main work, prepare the glue that is needed to fix the elements of the product, polyurethane foam or plaster.

Algorithm of actions:

• The base ball is pierced with a leg to the middle.
• Glue is poured into the resulting hole.
• A leg is installed in the ball and the glue is allowed to dry.
• The pot is filled with plaster or foam.
• The leg is firmly installed in the pot, allow time to dry.
• The crown is decorated and the pot is decorated.

The way the crown is decorated determines whether the candies from the tree will be consumed in the future. If yes, they can be fixed with rhinestones, or glued with light glue, PVA, for example. If you do not plan to remove the candies and they will only serve as decoration, it is permissible to use stronger glue or plaster. In order for the bouquet to look beautiful, even when some of the sweets are removed from it, you need to make sure that the base ball has a pleasant color that is in harmony with the composition of the other parts of the product.

In order for the topiary base to last as long as possible, it should be made as strong as possible.

Topiary can be used many times, for example, to play a role office decoration. The base (ball, leg, pot) may be the same, but the decoration changes from holiday to holiday.

Using marmalade or lollipops

Topiary is made simply from marmalade or lollipops:

• Chupa chups are stuck in continuous rows into the ball base, and the pot is decorated.
• The marmalade is secured onto long wooden skewers using transparent plastic film and stuck into the ball base.

For the safety of children, it is important that the pot is stable, as kids will pull sweets from the ball. Therefore, it is better to fix the tree trunk in a pot using plaster. The base ball can be purchased at an art store, although you can make one by tightly rolling up paper and gluing it with PVA glue.

The simplest options for decorating a pot:

New Year's sweet tree

In the days before Christmas home interior You can decorate with a homemade Christmas tree.

To create it you will need:

• A sheet of thick paper or cardboard.
• Candy (preferably in green wrapper).
• Scissors.
• Glue or double-sided tape.
• Small contrasting decorative elements for candy wrappers (rain, tinsel, etc.).

A semicircle is cut out of cardboard, rolled into a cone, and secured with glue, a stapler or tape. Bottom edge the cone is cut with fringe and bent to the sides to stabilize the product. It is better to glue the candies in rows on double tape, and decorate the space between them with rain or tinsel. Attached to the top of the Christmas tree small toy or a star, a ball, a snowflake. You can put it under the tree small gift. The master class provides information about the basic intricacies of making topiary, but you don’t have to follow all the recommendations with 100% accuracy, add something of your own and get original product, which no one else has!

Usually on holidays it is customary to give flowers, but now few people will be surprised by a bouquet. Bouquets or topiaries made from candy are becoming increasingly popular. Topiary made from sweets, lollipops or marmalade is not only tasty and unexpected, but also beautiful gift, which will decorate and diversify any festive table. The article below outlines a master class on creating topiary from delicious sweets, armed with which anyone can create a candy tree with their own hands, without spending a lot of time and nerves on it, but they will help you with this step by step photo and video at the end of the article.

We study a master class on do-it-yourself candy topiary

• Flower pot
• Gypsum mortar with a consistency similar to sour cream
• Tree trunk stick
• Newspaper, woolen threads, foil
• Candies
• Depending on the type of candy, you will need fastening materials such as a hot glue gun, toothpicks, chocolate, caramel, and double-sided tape.
• Decorations for topiary if desired, these can be ribbon bows or hearts on a skewer, beads, flowers, rhinestones, sisal, pieces of fabric, etc.

In clay or ceramic flower pot A thick gypsum solution is laid out, in the center of which a stick is placed, this will be the trunk of the future candy tree. The stick can be painted, wrapped in satin or floral ribbon, covered with gold, or placed with rhinestones or sparkles on thermal glue. Afterwards you need to let the plaster set, this happens within about half an hour, but the plaster dries completely only within 24 hours. Further work on making a candy topiary can be continued with the already set plaster, but donate it, of course, no earlier than a day later.

It is possible to purchase a base for topiary ready-made; usually, specialized stores sell a foam or piaflora base. If you don't want to look ready-made base, then you can make it yourself. To do this, several sheets of newspaper are crumpled into a dense, heavy ball, which is then tied wool thread for fastening. Afterwards, the newspaper base is wrapped in thick foil in several layers.

But it is possible that the base can be replaced with a large apple, orange or a bun of butter dough. In this case, the entire crown of the candy tree will be edible, but do not forget that such a gift will be stored for no more than 2-3 days.

As noted above, all further work on assembling the candy tree of happiness depends on the type of candies you have chosen and the base for the topiary.

The basis is a newspaper or foam ball, candy round shape in foil or paper packaging, as in the photo below.

The candies are glued onto the glue gun in a tight ring until the entire base is filled. The glue gun can be replaced with double-sided tape, then the base ball must first be wrapped in a continuous layer of tape, and then the candies must be glued onto it. This method is convenient not only because of its simplicity, but also because the candies can be removed from the wrapper without any problems.

A newspaper or foam ball is used as a basis; candies in candy wrappers are attached to toothpicks using narrow masking tape. And then they stick into the base in rows. It is not only simple, but also practical way, the candies are simply removed from the toothpicks.

In this method, the base is edible; it can be an apple, a peeled orange, or a bun of pastry. Chocolate candies without packaging or marmalade is attached to the base using caramel or thick cream dense rows of rings. Perhaps the most tasty option. The downside of such a sweet tree is its perishability.

IN foam base Lollipops or other lollipops are stuck into tight rings. You can make such lollipops with your own hands, for example, by melting sugar or wrapping marmalade in cling film, and then string it onto a stick.

There are a few simple ways decorate sweet topiary:

• Glue rhinestones, beads, beads onto the packaging of sweets
• Thread satin bows, paper or plastic hearts onto skewers or toothpicks and stick into the base.
• Wrap in a circle with rare beads
• Lay out the top layer of gypsum mortar with glass balls, shells, beads, and candies.
• Decorate the pot with fabric, tie it with ribbons, or apply a pattern with acrylic paints

Video selection on the topic of the article

As you can see, there are many options for a European candy tree, and to help you make a choice, we bring to your attention several interesting videos how to make topiary from sweets or marmalade with your own hands.

Sweet tree - an unusual gift!

A sweet tree (candy tree) can be given not only as a gift additional gift, but also as an independent gift.

The occasion can be absolutely any: birthday or anniversary, wedding or wedding anniversary, christening, New Year, March 8, Valentine's Day or even February 23.

By selecting the appropriate color scheme and adding various accessories, both men and women will be pleased to receive such a tree.

For the sweet tree, prepare

* ball for the base (foam or dry sphere, you can make a lump of newspapers, tie it with thread, but this worst option). The diameter depends on the size of the tree you want to get. I take 12 cm in diameter.
* candies
* fabric or corrugated paper
* wire for the base of the barrel
* cord for wrapping the trunk
* a pot in which we will plant a tree
* plaster
* sisal
* scissors
* heat gun
* beads, ribbons

I did not use all the materials from the photo in the wood making process.

Let's start with the trunk. We take the wire, fold it in several layers to the thickness that we want to get the tree trunk. The length is greater than the height of the tree; we will need to form “roots” and make a bend in the trunk.

We fix the cord at a short distance from the edge of the wire and begin to wrap the barrel. Leave the wire empty for the roots.

Forming roots.

Place the ball on the trunk and look at the height of the tree. You can adjust the height by pushing the ball deeper onto the barrel.

Let's start forming the crown. I prefer working with fabric, so I cut squares from 3 types of material. They are called pounders. Used to fill the space between candies. During the process of making wood, I decided to replace the beige pounds with white ones.

There are several ways to attach candy. I'll just glue them on.

I glue pounds to the candy, forming a flower with a candy center. I glue it to the ball.

Gradually fill the entire surface of the ball with candies. I insert pounds into the gaps between the flowers.

We plant our tree. We spread the plaster, insert the tree, fill in the roots and let it harden.

After hardening, you can begin the most pleasant and very favorite part of me - decoration.
To hide the plaster, we glue sisal on top. The color suited me was red.

We glue beads and ribbon bows onto the pounds, and tie a bow of two ribbons on the trunk.

I also made spirals from tape and glued them on as well.

It turned out very bright, colorful and festive!