Gift of dried fruits

It will surprise and delight the birthday boy who adheres to a healthy lifestyle. The advantage of such a present is complete freedom of creativity. After all, you can build anything you want. There are various methods of decoration: wrapping paper, saucer, cardboard box, transparent mica with ribbons, wicker basket, floral mesh. It is enough to choose the desired range of wrappers and pack in it what the recipient of the gift likes to eat. It can be not only dry fruits, but also nuts, tea, honey, berries or coffee. The main thing is to take into account the taste preferences of the recipient before making a bouquet of dried fruits.

Bouquets

Their peculiarity is that they will never wither and will benefit the body. They will also please the eye, because everyone can come up with not just a hodgepodge of dried fruits, but a work of art. So you can lay out a whole picture from the fruits in the form of a seven-flowered flower, a cake, Asian motifs, a forest clearing, a spiral, an animal, a sun or a chamomile. It would be chic to complement your congratulatory speech with a themed gift. For this purpose, products are selected in the same color scheme:

1. Orange is a symbol of positive mood and money. This atmosphere will be created by dried apricots, apples, peaches, mangoes, kumquats, and papaya.
2. Pink is a sign of romance and personal happiness. Dried strawberries, rose hips, barberries, and cranberries will provide a similar mood.
3. Brown is an attribute of home warmth and stability. This will be indicated by figs, raisins, prunes and dates.

To create the illusion of flowers with stems from food components, they are strung on 25 cm long skewers or toothpicks. After this, all the ingredients are attached to a cardboard frame. It serves as the basis for the composition. Then it is decorated with non-woven fabric. An alternative option is to connect each skewer one by one to each other with tape. Then pack the resulting bouquet with paper. But the packaging can also be transparent film, silk, kraft, uncoated, corrugated, holographic or crepe paper. If such a bouquet of dried fruits with your own hands seems difficult for beginners, you can resort to another option.

Box

When you don’t have time to create a frame and decorate the package, you can put the dried fruits in a hat box or cardboard box covered with wrapping paper, glitter, foil, rhinestones or ribbons. But there is also a mechanism of action here. First, each fruit is placed on a skewer. The resulting “bouquet” is tied with a rope and stuck into a floral sponge, tight dough or polystyrene foam. The base is then inserted into the box. To give such a gift a culinary touch, it is permissible to apply baking sprinkles or powdered sugar to the bouquet.

Basket

Before assembling a bouquet of dried fruits into a basket of “delicious” flowers, they also need to be strung on skewers. This procedure is done with dried apricots, prunes and kumquats. To make the composition look diverse, the figs are first cut into two parts, and then each of them is placed on a skewer, leaving the inside out. To get a “pineapple flower”, you will first need to squeeze a pineapple slice, and then secure the folds with several skewers. To create “mango roses,” the dry fruit is cut lengthwise into two pieces. Then one piece is twisted in a spiral, and the rest are wound onto it in the same way. This is done until a rosette of the desired diameter is obtained. To secure the resulting flower, it is tied with twine and tied in a knot. After this, the rose is placed on a 3rd wooden stick. Once all the fruits are strung, the basket is prepared. “Oasis” (floral foam or foam rubber) wrapped in cling film is inserted into it. All skewers are cut at an angle with pruning shears and inserted into the sponge. It is better to form the composition starting from the edges. Small skewers are inserted here. Larger sticks are placed closer to the center so that the composition does not look flattened. Dried fruits can be displayed by sector: group of prunes, kumquat, dried apricots. All rows are laid out tightly to each other. It is also possible to alternate dry fruits. It all depends on the drawing that will be laid out. Based on this, you should choose products.

Made of nuts and viburnum on a frame

An interesting holiday surprise could be a bouquet of various types, decorated with viburnum berries and assembled on a frame. Using a hot glue gun, attach unshelled peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts to a skewer and form branches. A bouquet will be formed from them in the future. In this case, it is best to make a frame, which we cut out of cardboard, attach wire to it and decorate it with shell halves. We insert it into the frame, fill the empty parts with viburnum berry bunches. For everyone who wants to try to make a gift themselves, there is a video instruction on step-by-step design on the YouTube.com channel, where a florist master clearly shows how to do it.

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What dried fruits and nuts can be added to the bouquet?

There are no restrictions. The composition can consist of any nuts and dry fruits. It is worth proceeding from the interests of the birthday person and his taste habits. If you want to present a themed gift, you can make a bouquet exclusively from exotics. Then use dried pitahaya, mangosteen, papaya, lime and baby pineapple. For variety, add coconut, figs, mango, kumquat, and avocado. This “fruit cocktail” with an oriental flavor is diluted with exotic nuts: cashews, macadamia, pecans and almonds. The traditional layout contains:

• dates;
• figs;
• prunes;
• dried apricots;
• melon;
• walnuts;
• hazelnut;
• peanut;
• pistachios;
• pine nuts.

It is also possible to include dried lemon slices, cinnamon sticks, barberries, marshmallows and candied fruits in the set. As a “highlight”, you can include a cotton bud in the set. To make a gift look organic, it is recommended to adhere to a number of rules. All components must be selected with meaning. They either should make up some kind of pattern, or be laid out in color triangles. Then the present will be considered a complete composition and will not look tacky.

Don’t thoughtlessly add all types of dried fruits to your gift. It is better to stick to some idea when forming a basket. If you don’t have your own ideas, it’s enough to use the standard recommendations of florists.

Master class “How to make a bouquet of nuts as a gift with your own hands”

Products:

• assorted nuts (hazelnuts, peanuts, pistachios, walnuts, seeds, etc.);
• snacks (salty pretzels).

What you will need:

• long wooden skewers;
• glue gun;
• scissors;
• wide tape;
• thin twine;
• packaging cellophane, gift paper (sold in flower shops).

Nuts (seeds) in original packaging

1. Secure the wooden skewers tightly with wide tape at the base of the package.

2. You can remove the original packaging (if it does not match in color, has a price tag that cannot be torn off, is too large, etc.). Roll up long balls of transparent packaging cellophane, pour nuts into them. Tie the bags with a beautiful ribbon or string. Also secure the balls to the skewers using tape.

"Sprigs" of nuts

3. Glue the nuts in the shell to a skewer with a glue gun, forming the desired silhouette. This could be unshelled hazelnuts, almonds, pine nuts, pistachios, or shelled peanuts.

4. You can form a mini-bouquet from the “twigs” and wrap it in a beautiful decorative fabric (canvas, sackcloth).

5. Place whole walnuts on the sharp end of a skewer. You can additionally carefully secure it with a glue gun so that the glue does not get inside the nut.

"Flowers"

6. You can use a glue gun to form lush “dahlias” from halves of pistachio shells.

"Fairy lights"

7. Pass a thin string through the salted pretzels to make a “garland”.

Bouquet

8. Assemble a bouquet from the blanks and secure it well with tape.

9. Wrap the bouquet in beautiful wrapping paper or cellophane. Decorate with garlands.

10. Don’t forget to prepare a short and interesting speech so that the presentation of the gift will be remembered for a long time!

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Rules for decorating a bouquet

The first thing to consider before making a bouquet of dried fruits is the choice of the fruits themselves. It is advisable not to take only one type of dried fruit. Such a set will look stingy and dull. It is better to use at least three types of dried fruits. They should be selected taking into account what exactly will be laid out in the bouquet. If you plan to create an imitation of flowers, then you should take dry fruits of different colors (banana, kiwi, orange). If the task is to present a monochromatic composition, then fruits of similar shades are selected (dried apricots, melon, peach).

Once the ingredients have been selected, you will need to decide on the base. This could be wrapping paper, a box or a basket. A sponge is placed inside the package, onto which wooden sticks with dried fruits strung are attached. When forming a composition, you need to choose a certain strategy: attach skewers in a circle, starting from the edges, or install them from the edge to the center in triangles along color sectors. In order for the gift to look neat in the end, you will need to acquire some available tools.

Necessary materials

To create a present, you may need various equipment. They are selected for each case, based on specific needs. The mandatory list includes dry fruits, wooden sticks and packaging in the form of wrapping paper, a card box or a wicker basket. However, in some cases, this list is expanded with additional means that help consolidate and formalize the composition. These include:

• toothpicks;
• rope;
• Styrofoam;
• twine;
• polyurethane foam;
• cling film;
• floral sponge “Oasis”;
• pruner;
• salty dough;
• glue;
• scotch;
• knife.

Different materials will also be needed to wrap the bouquet. It can be corrugated sheet, polysilk, non-woven fabric, organza or mesh. If you need to decorate a box or basket, then use ribbons, beads and rhinestones. The list of necessary things is extensive. In order not to get confused in it and to do everything according to the rules, you should follow the standard algorithm when creating a bouquet. Any thematic master class will offer a clear plan of action. The differences will be in the content and the final result.

Assembly order

To make a gift from dried fruits, you first need to decide in what form they will be laid out. To do this, you can draw a template or download a drawing you like. Then, based on the selected picture and color scheme, fruits and nuts are purchased. They are all mounted on skewers. After this, several options for the development of events are possible, depending on the packaging in which it was decided to present the gift:

Wooden sticks with dried fruits at the ends are fastened together with tape and packed in paper. A square is cut out of the sheet and wrapped around the bottom of the bouquet. The remaining pieces of wrapper are glued to the bottom square, forming a three-dimensional wrapper. After which everything is packed in floral film.

Skewers with dried fruits and nuts are placed on a sponge or foam. This can happen in two ways: they are inserted from the edge to the center in a triangular shape (along color sectors) or attached along the perimeter of the base (first the entire edge is filled, then the second row, and lastly the middle of the foam is filled). Once the base is filled, it is placed in a box or basket. If desired, the container is decorated with ribbons or rhinestones, after which it is wrapped in film.

There are many techniques for preparing such nutritious gifts. Everyone can choose a ready-made sample or come up with something of their own based on it. It is enough to follow the instructions, which will allow you to create a culinary presentation with your own hands one by one. So, using a standard template, it is possible to come up with an original composition. Food florists offer a variety of combinations that can satisfy the tastes of any person.

Ideas for arranging bouquets

Among the wide variety, it is easy to find a dried fruit gift suitable for a particular person. The difficulty lies in the arrangement of ingredients. Here you should choose one of the tactics for creating such compositions. They can be laid out according to color sectors, in a spiral or according to the intended pattern. In the end, you should get a complete and logical picture. Among the original solutions, several topics stand out:

• mosaic (pattern of multi-colored dried fruits);
• semi-precious stones (rounded dry fruits matching the color of stones: topaz, emerald, garnet, sapphire, ruby);
• a labyrinth (a schematic design of their nuts and dried fruits);
• milky way (spiral in the form of delicacies);
• chamomile field (chamomiles are laid out from almonds and dried apricots, prunes serve as the background).

If the finished specimen has a sparse appearance, then you can show your imagination and add other elements to the design. For this purpose, inserts with fresh flowers, marshmallows, pine cones, macaroons, and a topper with a congratulatory speech are used. To fill the resulting option with liveliness, it is permissible to place sprigs of parsley in the free spaces. To create a feeling of lightness, the composition is decorated with feathers. And a bud made from a twisted banknote will add a bit of humor.

The present, decorated in the form of a bouquet of dried fruits, looks original. This is a healthy gift that everyone will love. It is suitable for any occasion, be it the first anniversary of a five-year-old child or the 50th wedding anniversary of parents. Dry fruits and nuts collected in an arrangement are considered a suitable gift for a woman who has everything. Such a neutral compliment will always be appropriate and useful to everyone, since it is filled with vitamins and microelements.