If you want to present a beautiful, practical, and even delicious gift, then here is a 3-in-1 gift idea for you! Here is a functional item (a stylish ceramic mug), and candies inside it (for dessert), and a beautiful one on the lid (which, by the way, can decorate the interior after the holiday)!
To work you will need:
Let's start work from the foundation.
By the way, using the same principle, you can make a composition on any vessel - a vase, glass, bowl. And it doesn’t matter whether the vessel is made of ceramics or glass. In any case, it will be a great gift for your work colleagues on March 8th!
Using a pencil, trace the neck of the mug on a polystyrene foam tile. You will need 3 such circles for the base of the composition. We cut it out, reducing the diameter by 3-4 millimeters at once. This is done so that later the “lid” will fit inside the mug and hold it.
The circles must be glued together and wrapped in any soft floral paper. We cut out a circle from paper with a diameter larger than the polystyrene foam base, apply glue to it and carefully wrap it.
You can also take fabric, then the tail can simply be gathered onto a thread in the center of the circle.
Moreover, the “wrong side”, the place where the ends of the decorative wrapper meet, will go up under the flowers.
The composition will consist of 7 flowers. These are two large roses of a delicate pink color, 3 flowers a la lilac paper and 2 dark purple.
We make roses with “Martian” candies inside like this:
A la anemones of the open type (in the middle of the flower the Barry Art candy is not decorated) we collect it like this. You will need 4 petals. Cut out rectangles equal in height to the candy. We cut one of their narrow sides at an angle, and on the opposite side we round the corners and stretch the edge with a wave. We stretch the middle horizontally, making a small indentation. Then we wrap four petals around the tail of the candy and secure it with thread. Then we glue a toothpick inside with hot glue and wrap the leg with tape.
We make a purple primrose from a small candy like this. Cut out a narrow rectangle of paper, the length of which is 2.5 times longer than the candy. We bend it in half, turning the fold over. We put the candy inside, wrap it in paper and secure it with a thread on a wire. Then we cut out 4 rectangles and make petals a la anemone. We also sequentially wrap them around the purple center and tape them to the leg.
If you prefer to make flowers from satin ribbons, then you can replace paper flowers with flowers from ribbons, which can be made according to this master class:
When we are ready, we begin to assemble the composition. First, let's arrange 3 tea bags. Since you decided to make it for your colleagues with your own hands, you are free to choose any tea (you can focus on the taste preferences of your colleagues). For this composition they act as a background, so the color chosen was green (they blend in with the leaves). So, we attach them with hot glue to the side of the base, one after the other, overlapping.
When choosing tea, be guided by the preferences of your colleagues!
Carefully attach to the base
It is best to choose green tea bags
Let's create volume in the composition using a green triangle. We fold it from the corner like an accordion, glue it with hot glue and attach it to the same glue closer to the tea bags. In the foreground we have a leaf, maybe two, hanging down.
We will complement the existing decor on the stand with various elements: blades of grass, small flowers and twigs, a bow, leaves.
The assembly sequence is as follows: 2 large roses in front, then behind them the rest of the flowers in accordance with your taste. We fill the space between them with decorative grass, flowers and twigs. A small bow is the final point in the work.
March 8 is approaching and it's time to take care of an original gift for our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, teachers, educators and beloved women. Today we will learn how to make gifts with our own hands, you will see a detailed master class from the country's master craftswomen, and you will learn how to make a sweet gift from candies. For those who are short on time, we have prepared photo instructions to quickly make a beautiful gift for March 8th.
An excellent gift for a mother, friend or lover on March 8 will be a bouquet of roses from the Country of Masters.
Older schoolchildren can take note of the step-by-step instructions for their mothers and grandmothers, women to congratulate colleagues or relatives, as well as men who want to surprise their significant other.
So, to make 1 rose with our own hands we will need:
It is important to know! The widest ribbon for a bud can be of any bright color. If you are making a lot of roses to put together in a bouquet, the wide ribbons can be of different shades, or they can be the same color (for example, white, yellow, soft pink or scarlet).
It is important to know! To prevent the bud from falling apart while twisting, you should hold its lower part with your fingers.
As you twist, you get quite voluminous petals and a very beautiful realistic bud.
After such manipulations, the rose will always keep its shape.
To do this, cut a small square piece of satin ribbon, apply glue to the inner surface, wrap the workpiece around the bud, as shown in the figure, then press it tightly to the surface.
To decorate one rose, a stem from a skewer can be tied with a bow from the remnants of a thin satin ribbon.
This element will ideally replace the leaves of a flower.
And if you have enough time and patience, and you want to get even more delight from a woman on March 8, make a large bouquet of satin roses.
Your mother, grandmother or wife will definitely put such a gift in a vase in the most prominent place in the house to always remember your love.
Another version of the original beautiful design of small rose buds as a gift on March 8 can be seen in the master class in the video below.
Such a gift will be original not only for mom on March 8, but also on Teacher’s Day. Following our instructions, any schoolchild can make a bouquet of gerberas using the Quilling technique. Translated from English, the word “quilling” literally means “bird feather”, and in Russia the technique is widely known as “paper rolling”. The master class will teach you the art of paper rolling and help you create a unique gift for World Women's Day. Long and narrow strips of paper twisted into spirals make interesting flat or three-dimensional compositions, and in our case it will be a cute bouquet of five gerberas.
For the original craft we will need:
After all the elements for the future gerbera using the Quilling technique are ready, you can begin assembling the paper flower.
After the first gerbera is ready, we make the remaining flowers, making stems of different lengths. To give a gift to your mother, teacher or grandmother, there should be an odd number of gerberas in the bouquet: 3, 5 or 7 pieces.
A cute bouquet can be placed in a narrow vase, and it will definitely fit into any cozy interior.
You can make a simpler version of gerberas from plasticine and paper with a child in the senior group of kindergarten, but in this case you need to actively help him so that the child can cope with the task. A step-by-step master class is presented in the following video:
The next master class on Sweet design is intended for schoolchildren, as well as men and women who want to double surprise their loved ones. A sweet basket will not only please the female half on March 8, but will also bring a lot of pleasure, because it contains chocolates that the whole family can eat at the holiday table.
A sweet gift of candies for March 8th is made using the Paper-Plasty technique. It is worth preparing for the process in advance, since creating such a masterpiece takes a lot of time. So, for a basket in the style of Sweet decor, you will need:
To fill the basket internally, stock up on round-shaped sweets with nuts inside:
And also small chocolates in the form of rectangular flat bars with filling for the outer sides:
Now all that remains is to decorate the basket.
The bright basket for March 8th is ready; no sweet tooth will remain indifferent to this sweet gift.
The next gift is perhaps the simplest of all those presented and is suitable for small children, schoolchildren or men who want to congratulate a woman in an original way on March 8, but are not “friendly” with crafts.
To make your own photo frame using the modular Origami technique, you will only need 6 sheets of paper measuring 8 × 8 cm and a few minutes of positive mood. You can do the manufacturing steps yourself, as well as with your children, by repeating all the steps from our video instructions:
A photo frame created by yourself will allow you to preserve the most important moments from the life of your loved ones, so any woman, be it your mother, sister, or your bride, will remember such an unusual gift for March 8 for a long time.
An ideal option for little ones to make a gift for their mother, teacher, sister or grandmother is an applique card made of colored paper. All that is required is to help your child draw, cut and glue the parts, as in the pictures and video tutorials below.
Another unusual accessory can be made from items that can be found in every home. Any child in kindergarten, with the help of a teacher, or with tips from parents at home, will be able to make a stylish pot for your grandmother’s indoor plants on March 8th.
To create a pot you will need a tin can without a lid, wooden clothespins and red paper.
Thanks to wooden clothespins, the pot turns out to be very stylized, cozy and environmentally friendly.
In this master class you will find an idea for an original children's craft for March 8 - a bouquet of candies! The bright flowers of the holiday bouquet are made of corrugated paper, and in their center there is a surprise for mom or grandma.
1) Take polystyrene foam and glue several strips of double-sided tape onto it. This will be the bottom, it will be attached to the basket. Photo 2.
2) We cover the product with green corrugated paper, leaving the bottom untouched. Corrugated paper can also be glued to double-sided tape or glue - a pencil. Photo 3.
3) Glue it to the basket. Photo 4.
4) So, the base is ready. Let's get to the candy. We fasten the ends of the wrapper together. Use a toothpick to pierce the candy, somewhere to the middle. The toothpick should hold well and the candy should not fall out. Photo 5.
5) Do this for every piece of candy. Photo 6.
6) Let's start making the petals of the bud. We cut out strips of the required length from pink corrugated paper. The length and width of the petals depends on the size of the candy. Photo 7.
7) Twist the strips in the middle, connecting the ends. We stretch the paper across to give the shape of a bud. Photo 8.
8) Place the buds on the candy and wrap it with thread at the base. Photo 9.
9) And now we have the flowers ready. Photo 10.
10) Now you need to make an imitation of greenery. Cut out a square from green paper. Fold it in half. Photo 11.
11) Trim the ends. Photo 12.
12) Pass it through a toothpick. Photo 13.
13) Apply glue to the base of the flower. Photo 14.
14) Glue the leaves. Photo 15.
15) Carefully insert our flowers into the foam. Hold the toothpick, otherwise the pressure will pierce the candy right through. Photo 16, 17.
A bouquet of chocolates is a “double” gift, successfully replacing both a traditional bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates. But much more important is the fact that a bouquet of sweets made with your own hands demonstrates your attention and care like no gift bought in a store.
In this article, we have collected some of the most interesting and at the same time simple master classes on making “candy” bouquets with step-by-step photographs - so that you can please your beloved mothers, grandmothers, wives and girlfriends with an original “sweet” homemade gift.
A truly luxurious gift that will make an unforgettable impression on any woman on March 8 - a festive bouquet of sweets, satin ribbons and lace. Quite difficult to make, such a bouquet will become a real decoration and will be relevant for a very long time after the March 8 holiday itself. Any sweets are suitable for making such a bouquet - Chupa Chups lollipops, round candies and even miniature chocolate bars, the main thing is to get long plastic or wooden sticks in advance for attaching candies to the “stems” instead of ordinary flowers.
Step-by-step photo master class:
Perhaps one of the easiest bouquets to make and at the same time an unusually beautiful bouquet that will be an excellent gift for any occasion. For this homemade bouquet you need any candies in a wrapper with “tails” - caramel, chocolate, etc., as well as corrugated paper in two colors - green and yellow (red, orange - in general, any chosen color of tulips). As a base for attaching “flowers” made of corrugated paper, you can take either a special ball/cube for topiary (sold in specialized craft stores) or an ordinary large dish sponge.
Step-by-step photo master class:
The simplest bouquet for March 8 can be made from marmalade candies in sugar - any color and taste, the main thing is that they are round or at least very small. To make such a bouquet, in addition to sweets, you only need cling film and a few wooden “skewers” for canapés. You can wrap the finished bouquet in special wrapping paper or colored corrugated paper.
Step-by-step photo master class:
A very interesting and truly unusual-looking composition of candies that will adequately decorate any holiday table on March 8 and will surprise the gathered guests. Despite the external originality, in fact, such a composition can easily be made at home. For this you will need:
We cut out the “body” of our “ladybug” from polystyrene foam with an ordinary knife, and paint the head with gouache brown (or black). Additionally, the ladybug’s head can be decorated with “eyes” and “antennae” drawn on paper from wire or other available materials. The main thing is to make “rosettes” from several layers of corrugated paper (as in the photo below), secure the candies in them on toothpicks and stick the second tip of the toothpick into the foam base.
Step-by-step photo master class on making a composition:
Flowers with the unromantic name "calla lily" are also known as calla lilies - delicate, elegantly curved, snow-white, ideal for a holiday bouquet. At home, it’s easy to make calla lilies from white corrugated paper, the snowy whiteness of which will go wonderfully with the shine of the foil of chocolates. It is best to complement the bouquet with “greenery”, again made from corrugated paper. How to do this - look at the step-by-step photos below.
Traditional gift options for Women's Day are sweets and flowers. Of course, almost all women love candy, and flowers are always welcome, but still, receiving the same type of gifts from year to year is not interesting.
If you want to surprise, you can make your own gifts from sweets for March 8th. They can be very diverse. You can use sweets to make a bouquet of spring flowers, a greeting card, or a souvenir. Photos of various gift options will help you make a choice.
Let's look at how to make simple gifts from sweets for women on March 8, since you shouldn't take on making a complex gift right away.
Flowers are a symbol of the spring holiday, so let's start learning how to make souvenirs from sweets by making a spring bouquet.
We will need:
The step-by-step process of making a bouquet looks like this:
All that remains is to collect the bouquet, pack it in transparent film and tie it with a ribbon.
As a gift for a teacher, you can make a sweet souvenir in the shape of the number 8 with your own hands; even primary school students can cope with this work, even with a little help from their parents.
You need to take two cardboard cylinders of different sizes (you can use tape reels). Two circles, equal in diameter to the size of the reels, are cut out of cardboard and glued to the cylinders. The mugs can be wrapped in colored paper and decorated with drawings and congratulatory inscriptions.
Now you need to wrap the reels with two strips of double-sided tape, placing it closer to the edge. Candies are glued onto the tape (you should choose a form of candy that matches the height of the reel in length). Additionally, the mugs can be tied with a ribbon to help the candies stick better. All that remains is to fasten two circles together to form the number “eight”.
You can make a cute cake for your mom as a gift. To do this, you need to cut a blank from foam. If the cake is multi-tiered, then you should cut out 2-3 circles of different diameters. The foam blanks are wrapped in colored paper.
Now we need to select candies in wrappers of different colors to make our gift bright. It is best to glue the candies with double-sided tape. You can decorate the sweet souvenir according to your own taste.
For your beloved girl, a similar “cake” can be made in the shape of a heart. The principle of making a souvenir is the same, you will only need to cut the foam blanks into the desired shape.
Ideas for making a variety of souvenirs can be born if you remember the interests and hobbies of the person for whom the gift is being prepared. For example, you can please a fruit lover by making a pineapple out of candy. To do this, you will need a cylindrical foam blank, green paper for the “tail” and semicircular candies in a yellow-orange wrapper.
If a girl loves jewelry, then a giant “necklace” of candies can be made for her as a gift; a lady who is interested in floriculture may like a beautiful flower in a pot, and not only the flower itself can be made of candies, but the pot can also be covered with chocolates.
Thus, a wide variety of souvenirs can be made from sweets for an original gift for the Eighth of March.