A Bouquet Of Toys, Including Soft Ones, Do It Yourself: Step By Step Instructions For Beginners, Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

DIY bouquet of toys: an original gift for any occasion

On the eve of the holidays, the question always arises: "What to give and where to get it?" However, the donor does not always have the opportunity to buy the preferred gift option. In this case, making the necessary thing with your own hands will help. The fashionable trend is a bouquet of toys. To do it yourself, you need to prepare everything you need in advance and read the step-by-step instructions.

How to make a bouquet of toys with your own hands

Making a bouquet of toys is a very fun, but not always easy task. Someone collects such gifts in 5 minutes, while others may take several hours. But usually most of the time is spent on preparation: selection of materials, drawing up a sketch, etc. Therefore, you need to deal with drawing up a bouquet not 10 minutes before the presentation of the gift, but somewhat earlier.

I made my first bouquets of toys for several days. The whole day was spent on sketching the bouquet and making a list of the necessary materials. I spent another day buying all these items. And only on the third day I made the composition itself. Now I can create a bouquet from available tools, and it takes no more than half an hour to assemble all the elements.

It takes experienced florists to create a simple bouquet of toys from 5 minutes

Materials that will be required when creating a bouquet

There are no strict rules of what to make a bouquet of. You can use almost any material at hand, including your creativity. Most often, the following items are required to create a bouquet:

• toys (soft, plastic, knitted, etc.) of any size (often no higher than 15 cm) and in any color;
• base for the bouquet (foam, cardboard, cone made of paper or very dense fabric; you can buy a special base in a flower shop);
• the future leg of the bouquet (a piece of PVC tube, a cardboard sleeve, a magazine rolled into a roll, etc.) of the required length (10-15 cm);
• means for fastening elements (glue gun, safety pins, floral wire, wooden skewers, etc.);
• material for draping the base (corrugated paper, organza, mesh or tulle, any bright fabric, floristic film, etc.);
• items for decorations (feathers, ribbons, sisal, rattan balls, small boxes, bows, etc.);
• small accessories (rhinestones, sequins, half-beads, etc.) - if desired;
• tools: screwdriver, pencil, stationery knife, ruler, etc.

A bouquet of toys is not necessarily a composition with only toys (you can include whatever you like in such a bouquet)

Step-by-step instructions for beginners

Here is a diagram of making a simple bouquet of toys:

1. Preparation of the base. If you haven't found a suitable foam cone, you can cut it yourself. The flat side of the cone should be up to 25 cm in diameter. You can also make the cone out of cardboard.

2. Attach the handle to the base. If the handle is made of a cardboard tube, then one of its sides can be cut with scissors and glued to the base with glue ("Moment", thermal gun, etc.). PVC tube handles can be directly glued to the narrow side of the cone.

   

   A convenient form of the base can be given using a clerical knife, it can also be used to make a shallow (2-3 cm) hole into which you need to insert a handle)

3. Wrap the cone with corrugated paper or decorative cloth. The first layer of wrapping can be used to drape the wide base of the cone so that the foam is not visible. The rest of the layers (2 or 3) can wrap the entire workpiece, including the leg. The edges of the paper or fabric can be trimmed with curly scissors.

   

   The top layer of the wrapping material can be tucked in or left outside (the more top layers, the more voluminous the bouquet will turn out)

4. Prepare toys. The most convenient way is to string the bottom of the toy onto a piece of copper wire (about 20 cm), and then bend it so that 2 parallel ends of the wire stick out from the toy. They need to be inserted into the foam. Can be fixed with glue. It is also convenient to use skewers - they can be glued directly to the bottom of the toy, and then thrust into the foam.

   

   The quickest way to attach a stick to a toy is to use balloon holders

5. Add decorative elements to the composition. First, fill in the voids next to the toys (candies in corrugated paper, rattan balls, artificial flowers, bows, etc.). Last but not least, add rhinestones, half beads and other decorative trifles.

   

   Anything that attaches to cabinets / toothpicks (corrugated paper flowers, satin ribbon bows, toppers, jewelry, etc.) can be used to fill the voids between toys.

6. Tie the handle with a satin ribbon or bow. The bouquet is ready.

   

   The handle of the bouquet should be tied last, since after tying it will be inconvenient to make changes without crushing the whole composition

Photo gallery: original bouquets of toys

A bouquet in pink will delight a romantic and dreamy person

In addition to flowers and toys, you can include any sweets in the bouquet (for example, Rafaello sweets, Kinder sticks or Chupa-Chups lollipops)

If the bouquet turned out to be small and unpretentious, then you can play with its presentation - in a bank, the body of a toy cruiser, etc.

If your bouquet implies simple toys, then the emphasis can be made on the color of the materials.

The bouquet may not have flowers at all if the toy is large enough

A bouquet is not necessarily a bunch of flowers and toys; You can also give a doll, part of which is a flower bouquet

If the recipient of the gift loves not only soft toys, then other figures can also be used (ceramic, porcelain, plastic, etc.)

In addition to toys and sweets, some kind of decoration or, for example, a jar of cosmetic product can become a figure in the bouquet.

A bouquet of toys can also be decorated in the form of a topiary (but making such gifts will take more time)

Large objects can become accents in a bouquet of toys - eggs with a surprise, gloves, towels, shampoos, etc.

You can decorate a bouquet not only in a circular wrapper (the shape of paper or fabric can be made triangular or even square)

A bouquet for a child can be made with the characters of your favorite cartoons

You can include very small toys in the bouquet, and fill the free space, for example, with sesal or bright feathers.

A bouquet in pastel colors is ideal for a young girl

Despite the complexity of bouquets of toys, you can make such a composition yourself. The production itself can take from 5 minutes to several hours, the main difficulty will be in the selection of materials. But if you include imagination and ingenuity, then you can get a wonderful gift.