Making bouquets of dried fruits with your own hands

An alternative to a simple flower bouquet as a gift is an edible one. It will not only bring aesthetic pleasure, but also prove to be nutritious. In addition, it will not wither - what the recipient of the gift did not eat can be temporarily frozen.

Bouquets of nuts and dried fruits are not perishable if stored in a refrigerator or in a dry, ventilated area. Nevertheless, the general idea excludes the appearance in the assembly of products that do not fit, for example, in the concept of bouquets that exclude fruits. These rules are also aimed at accuracy during assembly.

• You cannot work with an assembly that contains non-sterilized components.
• It is necessary to collect a set of a bouquet only with gloves.
• Make sure that the food is free of dust, dirt, rot, mold and mildew. Discard suspicious elements.
• When rinsing dried fruits with water, dry them before using. The recipient of the gift will be unpleasant to receive a surprise from which water flows.
• The fruit can be cut in a special way. To prevent it from spoiling in this place, close the incision tightly with cling film.
• Everything should be fresh, just bought (or picked from the garden). For example, if dried apricots are used, then they must be thoroughly dried. The same goes for prunes, dried apples and pears.
• Packaging and film must not tear during transportation or transportation.

Bouquets with nuts, as well as dried fruits, are complemented by their own attributes.Without decoration, this is the usual set of products. Walnut bouquets wrap can be decorated with feathers or silk wrap. The gift wrapper must be intact and without external defects. Products must match perfectly in color. Nuts are characterized by brown shades - both walnuts and hazelnuts, and peanuts have warm, "wooden" tones. You will need scissors, splinters, twine, possibly a needle and thread, cling film and foil. The basket will serve as an element of luxury.

You must be sure that the person loves and what is not allowed for medical reasons. So, hazelnut is rich in protein, lowers cholesterol, but is contraindicated for diabetics and people with liver disease. Walnuts increase libido and lower blood pressure, relieve anemia. Peanuts improve memory and attention, pistachios contribute to weight loss.

Cashew is good for eyesight, improves the functioning of the nervous system, and has a beneficial effect on the appearance of hair and nails. Almonds are useful for healthy lifestyle lovers, improves immunity and the work of the musculoskeletal system. Pine nuts improve stomach function. A food bouquet for a woman who appreciates her beauty and does not want to lose it because of being overweight is made up mainly of dietary fruits and low-calorie sweets.

An additional product attribute is salty pretzels, crackers and other dry confectionery products. An intermediate option - sweets and chocolate bars with raisins.

Draw on paper the template for which the bouquet is laid out. It can be a huge flower, an image of a vase, or another exhibit that has symmetry. Follow the steps below to create a bouquet of nuts.

• Slip walnuts over splinters and toothpicks. Each walnut has a soft contour in the form of a line, reminiscent of a gap, in which the woody material is not as hard as all over the shell. Even such a soft material as a sharpened match is inserted there, not to mention torches. It is through the hole in this line that a nut can be cracked, even using a penknife or kitchen knife with a bayonet point.
• Tie the resulting elements with thread, twine or tape. A mini-bouquet is formed - the size of a bunch of snowdrops.
• Decorate the resulting artwork with a decorative wrapper, tying it underneath with ribbon.

This option is the simplest. More complex bouquets are made in a different way: for example, tying is not required everywhere, and stringing of elements is carried out several per one splinter. At the end, decorative tape is tied.

A bouquet of nuts with added viburnum can be made on a prepared base. Step by step, the whole process is as follows. Stick on the splinters using any environmentally friendly glue or attach unpeeled walnuts on plasticine. Hot melt glue can be used. Arrange them one at a time - the way they would grow on a real branch. Form a cardboard frame. Cover it with shell halves. Fold the elements of the bouquet together - and tie them from the bottom. Put viburnum branches in the empty spaces between the nuts. To make a bouquet of nuts and dried fruits, do the following.

• Place dried fruit wedges on sticks or toothpicks, piercing them. Each stick can hold up to 10 slices.
• On the free ends of the sticks, prick the walnuts, using in each of them the same "weak point" for piercing the fruit with a sharp point.
• Having issued a dozen sets, fasten them from below with tape or thread, folding them together.
• Place the formed set in a film or decorative paper roll.
• Tie the bottom of the roll and decorate it using the shell and glue as in the previous example.

You can form a bouquet of fruits and dried fruits yourself, without anyone's help, using small fruits. With large fruits, the bouquet will acquire too much weight - it will be inconvenient to hand it over. All assemblies can be formed both in a straight (vertical) form and in a spiral. The spiral principle is borrowed from florists dealing with ordinary flower bouquets of any configuration.

Examples include kiwi, pomegranate, tangerines, oranges, and apples. Popular dried fruits include dates, dried apricots and prunes. Follow the steps below to make a bouquet. String the dried fruit wedges on sticks. Connect the resulting elements together. Usually, fruits are not strung, but placed in the center, among sticks with dried fruits. If you neglect this rule and string them on separate sticks, then they will start to deteriorate. Place the entire assembly in decorative paper or plastic.

Berries in a bouquet placed in a basket require a slightly different approach. To make the structure stable, a piece of foam is placed on the bottom - in the simplest case. Strawberries, for example, are planted element by element - each fruit into two splinters or toothpicks. It is recommended to use large varieties of berries, this applies to all types. But it is already difficult to plant raspberries or currants, grapes and other small elements - it is better to place a bunch between the berries of the same strawberries.

Instead of fruit, you can put a few tea bags in the basket, or hide a small packet of loose tea in the middle. It will not be possible to place tea as such in any other way - it turns out that the owner of such a basket or bouquet will brew tea on his own, and fruits, berries and sweets will serve as a pleasant addition to it. In most cases, tea is not accompanied by fruits, but by sweets - sweets, cookies, and also some dried fruits. Instead of tea, coffee can be inserted - in bags, possibly with milk powder in combination (or separately).

The boxed version is no different from the basket or bouquet version - foam or other filler is placed on the bottom of the box, and then the assembly scheme for “packet goodies” is no different in principle. Whether the bouquet will be packed in a box or a roll depends on the imagination and ingenuity of the performer and the specific wishes of the customer. A homemade box can be made from planks or cut, like a vase or salad bowl, into a solid stump of a suitable diameter. Such packaging is the most exclusive and original: having a programmed milling machine at hand, even a beginner can create such beauty, turn a piece of wood into a luxury that grateful clients will pay a considerable sum to this master.

The easiest option is to use wood, for example, a sawn old apricot tree that is reaching its age: freshly sawn wood, in addition, smells like apricot juice. This attribute will awaken a serious appetite for the recipient of the presentation.

To make a "lace" version of the bouquet, there must be a good reason - to present the same mug as a gift. For example, in the 2000s, circles came into vogue "from a new angle" - they resembled a parallelogram in their outlines, when viewed from afar, and the pen was hidden from the field of view from the observer. Such items were raffled off on radio stations and music TV channels as prizes - most often in quizzes and programs upon request. An "oblique" or exclusive mug will be an excellent gift, and a berry-(dry) fruit set will make a real symbol out of it, which the recipient of the presentation will remember for a lifetime.

Styrofoam is placed in the mug, as well as in the basket. In turn, berries and dried fruit slices on torches are inserted into it. You cannot use large fruits and berries - there is not enough space to make a complete set of treats. The strawberries for the mug should be smaller. If you put an apple inside, then it will take up all the free space. However, it makes sense to do a double stringing - instead of foam plastic, put an apple on the bottom, and stick shortened sticks with berries into it.

If an apple dangles in a mug, if it is accidentally tilted or turned over, the whole assembly may fall out of the mug. For this purpose, the lace version is placed in a secure basket. And the box, and the mug, and the basket can be pasted over with beautifully chopped nutshells or you can use industrial decorations, for example, glitter. Gluing is carried out using any environmentally friendly glue - especially when the owner of the gift is supposed to use this vessel or other container for a long time.

There are more than enough ideas for a presentation in a circle - like a basket, it gives a certain amount of space. A beer mug is not recommended for donation. The mug as such can be replaced with a sugar bowl - there is even more space in it. And for flat and wide bouquets, a vase or plate with a beautiful design is used. Choose the master class you like and bring the instructions received from it to life.

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