Pineapple has always been considered a symbol of nobility, wealth, hospitality and exquisite taste. Ripe fruit is great for decorating a holiday table and as a gift for children. Adults can also be pleasantly surprised and pleased if you present them with an original composition in the form of a pineapple made from sweets and champagne. This creative craft can easily replace a bouquet for a birthday or become an independent gift for March 8 and the New Year.
Making pineapple from champagne and sweets with your own hands is not so difficult . To do this, you need to prepare the material necessary for the work in advance..
Required materials
In addition to the main components, to make an original gift you will need some items from a florist shop.
If it is impossible to find such things in your city, then they can be easily replaced with other decor.
The main set includes:
The total number of candies depends on the size. The larger they are, the less of them you will need. Usually round or round sweets are used to create such a composition. oval shape. “Golden Lily” is an ideal option for these purposes.
The artificial aspidistra is played by green ribbons that imitate the leaves of the plant.
Process Description
The work begins with preparing the sweets. To do this, the tails are pressed to the center and fixed with tape or glue. Next, the yellow mesh is cut into several identical squares (5 x 5 in size). Using a gun, candies are glued onto them in several rows.
Some craftswomen do not use mesh for additional decoration, but immediately begin decorating the bottle. You can do the same as them. Only then will it be necessary to attach the candies much more tightly in order to thoroughly disguise the green glass. Accordingly, the consumption of sweets will increase significantly.
Important! You need to wear rubber gloves when working with the gun so as not to burn your hands with hot glue.
The candy blanks are glued onto the champagne bottle in one line, starting from the bottom. The next row is attached to checkerboard pattern. The edges of the mesh should always be straightened outward so that they cover the resulting gaps. The result should be 5 horizontal rows.
Florist shops sell green aspidistra ribbon, which can be used to make pineapple leaves. They turn out so realistic that they are sometimes difficult to distinguish from the real ones. Sometimes on pieces of tape there are several light veins, which give the artificial leaves even more effect and naturalness. If you can’t find such material, then you can buy felt or regular corrugated paper.
To obtain blanks for future leaves, the tape is divided into strips. This is done step by step in the following sequence:
- From one meter measure and cut into 2 parts different lengths(2 x 10 cm; 2 x 17 cm; 2 x 23 cm).
- Each part is dissolved in width into strips. Those that turned out to be 10 and 17 cm long are divided into 4 strips, and the remaining ones into 3. Each blank is sharpened at one edge to give the desired shape.
- The result is eight leaves of 10 and 17 cm. And six - 23 cm.
Leaves of 10 cm each (4 pieces) begin to be glued with a hot-melt gun from the top of the neck of the bottle. Stepping a little lower, attach the next 4 pieces. In this case, you need to try to close all visible gaps. Next, 4 leaves of 17 cm each are used, and then the remaining 4 pieces (of the same size). Long and wide leaves are glued to the bottom of the neck. All that remains is to add the last row of candies, and at the very end, decorate the craft with sisal fiber.
You can decorate the pineapple at your discretion, showing bold imagination and creativity. For example, tie a scarlet bow or light sisal around the neck of a bottle.
Pineapple from a plastic bottle
It is almost impossible to surprise modern children with any toys or sweets. But this can be achieved if you make an unusual pineapple from sweets with your own hands, and then give it to your child for a holiday.
This version of the craft is in many ways similar to the previous one. Only here, as a basis, is the usual plastic bottle, and not as in the past - champagne. Pineapples made from candies and master classes on how to create them may also differ slightly from each other. But this is not so important, since in the end any work comes out beautiful, interesting and original.
To create a pineapple, the craftsman will need the following material:
- Plastic bottle (1.5 l).
- Candies with a yellow wrapper.
- Scissors.
- Colored paper (green).
- Double-sided tape.
After preparing the workplace and all necessary tools, you can begin the main work. Procedure:
Delicious and interesting gift ready!
Such unique gifts will appeal to everyone: both children and adults. The main thing about them is that they are made by hand. And what is done with soul is priceless.
It just so happens that an invariable gift for any holiday (especially for the New Year) is a box delicious sweets and a bottle of sparkling wine. But how to present them beautifully in order to please the hosts of the celebration, stand out with originality and decorate the festive table? In this tutorial we will learn how to make an original sweet gift DIY - beautiful creative solution for a gift and a delicious element of holiday table decor.
Pineapple made from sweets and champagne
To make a candy-champagne bouquet you will need:
- a bottle of champagne;
- candies, in our example “Golden Lily” because of their golden color, the quantity depends on the size of the bottle;
- floral ribbon-aspidistra;
- sisal;
- jute fiber;
- hot melt adhesive.
1. First, use a glue gun to glue the tails of the candies. We work carefully, take care of your fingers - the temperature of the glue is very high. You can use a wooden stick for smoothing.
2. We get these candies.
4. And glue it to the bottle. In this way we glue the candies row by row from top to bottom. In between the candies, we glue sisal fibers so that the pineapple looks just like a real one.
5. Here the bottle is completely covered.
6. The next step in our mk is the design of the grassy top of the candy fruit.
7. Cut leaves from aspidistra tape: top size about 10 cm, and the lower ones - about 16.
8. We start gluing from the top so that later the bottle can be easily opened. We apply glue to the bottle itself, because the high temperature melts the tape.
9. In this way we decorate the entire neck exactly down to the candies.
10. It turns out this greenery.
11. For greater beauty and similarity to its natural brother, we tie it with jute fiber at the junction of the candies and the stem.
This is how the pineapple turned out.
Decorative pineapple from a plastic bottle
You can also give a candy pineapple as a gift for a child, but don’t put a bottle of alcohol inside. In this lesson we will make a delicious gift by making the base from a plastic bottle.
Materials:
- 1.5 liter plastic bottle: color is not particularly important, in our case it is green;
- sufficient quantities of sweets;
- scissors;
- double-sided tape;
- green colored paper.
1. Cut the bottle into 3 parts. We will use only the extreme ones, the middle one will not be needed.
2. Connect these parts. The result is a workpiece of this shape:
3. We seal all the plastic with double-sided tape.
4. Starting from the bottom, cover the bottle with candy. The loose ends, if they fit into the composition, can be twisted in front of you and left in sight. We have one blue tail, so we hide it under the candy, carefully crushing it.
5. Row by row we glue candies.
6. When we reach the very end and glue the last row, cover the top with the free ends with green paper.
7. Cut out the leaves and glue them one by one to the neck with double-sided tape.
8. This is the delicious gift we get in the end.
Making pineapple from a glass jar
And one more way to make pineapple from candies: the master class is very simple, it will only require those materials and tools that are always at hand.
- candies;
- a jar of a suitable shape;
- green corrugated paper or napkins;
- rubber;
- needle and thread;
- scissors.
1. Take a napkin and unfold it completely. We place the jar in the center and completely wrap it in a napkin, securing it at the neck with an elastic band.
2. You can, of course, glue the candies, but we will do it differently. We fasten the sweets at the ends with a thread and a needle. It turns out that we string candy onto a thread that we wrap around the jar.
3. You can also put sweets inside the jar.
4. At the very top, attach a thread to the elastic band so that the pineapple does not fall apart.
5. Rolling up a napkin, we make pineapple leaves.
6. We insert them into the jar and get a gift pineapple.
Video selection
Master shows how to make pineapple from candy with your own hands candy compositions Dmitry Boyarovich. I was immediately inspired by this Master Class, as it is very easy to perform and does not require a large amount of floral materials and devices. Now everyone can make such a gift with the help of the next Master Class. You can give a pineapple made from candies with your own hands not only for the New Year holidays, you can give such a sweet gift for any celebration and birthday, because a fresh pineapple or one made from candies can replace a bouquet of flowers.
You will need:
- candies 600 - 800 grams (in gold candy wrappers)
- polystyrene foam (12 cm high and 8 cm in diameter)
- wide double-sided tape
- packaging film (deep green, metallized)
- decorative aspidistra ribbon (for making pineapple leaves)
- knife
- scissors
So, first we prepare the base for the pineapple. To do this, take polystyrene foam and use a knife to cut out an oblong shape with rounded ends. The foam blank can be slightly wetted to prevent debris from scattering. Then we wrap our workpiece in dark green packaging film. We fix the edges with tape, and at the top we make a tip and wrap it tightly with double-sided tape.
From decorative tape We cut out the leaves for the pineapple, attach them in several rows to the sticky tip of our workpiece and also wrap it tightly with double-sided tape.
Next, the entire pineapple blank must be covered with double-sided tape.
Now let's get down to the most important thing, attaching candy to the blank. To do this, we attach the ends of the candy wrappers to the very top, where the leaves were fixed with tape. And then we gradually continue to glue all the candies in a checkerboard pattern.
After all the candies are attached to the blank, take a stick and straighten it, tucking in the tails of the candy wrappers.
So you made a pineapple out of sweets with your own hands, as you can see, but with such a Master Class, it turned out to be not at all difficult!
Due to the fact that I have many friends and acquaintances, I regularly face the difficulty of choosing a gift for each of them. Often you don’t know what to give, because it seems that a person has everything, and you really want to express your attitude with a gift, make it exclusive and special.
In addition, recently, while on maternity leave, I have more free time, but significantly less money to purchase unusual gifts.
This is where this miracle pineapple made from champagne and sweets came to my aid.
Pros of a gift
Pineapple made from champagne and sweets looks very beautiful on festive table and is wonderful and an original gift. Making such a pineapple is quite simple and economical.
Pineapple made from champagne and sweets can be either a gift itself or an addition to it. It will serve as a good alternative to a bouquet of flowers, turning out to be not only a beautiful aesthetically pleasing gift, but also a useful addition to any feast.
For any occasion, such a pineapple will create a special holiday atmosphere and show your attitude towards the event.
Developing children's creative potential
And of course, making such a pineapple from champagne and sweets is a wonderful joint activity for children. But the main thing here is to buy more candies to reinforce children's creative potential and not allow children to work with hot hot glue.
I made my own pineapple from champagne and sweets for the birthday of a friend’s 4-year-old daughter. I proceeded from the following considerations: champagne for adults, sweets for children. And most importantly, a child will be very interested in such a pineapple.
Materials for manufacturing
The materials you need are the simplest - 600 grams of gold-wrapped candy (or about 60 pieces), champagne (or any other drink in a bottle), scissors, corrugated paper (or any other green paper), hot melt adhesive, tape and/or insulating tape. 
Step by step instructions
1. Preparing sweets. We remove the tails. I did this using insulating tape or tape. Masking tape will help keep the candies intact when using hot glue, but duct tape will stick the tails on better.
We cut 1x1 squares, first glue one tail, then use a second square to glue the second tail.
Or use a long strip of tape to glue two tails together.
This way we make about 60 candies.
2. Decorate the bottle itself with candies. We need candy and a glue gun. Carefully begin gluing each candy in a circle in a checkerboard pattern.
3. Make leaves for the pineapple. The material can be varied, I had green corrugated paper on hand, I cut leaves 10-15 cm long (I placed smaller leaves near the cork) and glued them together with tape.
And then I covered the neck of the bottle with this garland of green leaves in a spiral.
4. Wrap the dividing line with string. You can use twine or decorative ribbon. I didn’t have anything like that on hand, so I rolled yellow corrugated paper into a tube.
The decor for the bottle is ready - you can go to the holiday.
You can diversify this miracle with various drinks as a base, as well as various sweets. For New Year's holidays you can place the manufactured pineapple on a small base, decorating it with pine cones, candles or Christmas decorations. For a child, if there is another toy as a gift, you can attach a toy to the base, and also make a pineapple on the base of children's champagne.
Would you like to receive such a pineapple for a holiday?
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On the eve of the upcoming holiday, you should think about what gifts you can please your friends and loved ones. An excellent solution would be handmade candy gifts for the New Year 2018. Sweets will please everyone and will complement the numerous decorations in the house, maintaining the appropriate atmosphere.
Candy pineapple
First of all, in New Year's Eve You can’t do without the foamy splashes of champagne accompanied by the loud chimes. However, the bottle will not look so monotonous and will create a real sensation if presented in appropriate packaging. For example, by disguising it as a tropical fruit - pineapple, one of the favorite treats on the holiday table at this time of year.
To create such a gift, in addition to a bottle of champagne, you will need:
candies in golden wrappers, approximately 70-90 pieces;
aspidistra ribbon (can be purchased at a florist store);
a little sisal fiber to taste;
glue gun
You can take more sweets by offering them to guests for tea. If you don't have a glue gun at home, superglue can replace it, but it's worth buying several.
First you need to remove the tails. They should not be cut off. It is enough to bend them to the back of the candy and place them on hot glue. You must work extremely carefully, as you can get burned.
Don't apply a lot of glue. Its surplus will give the gift unkempt appearance In addition, the candies may melt. After bending the tails, it is recommended to give them time to dry, and then put the candies in the refrigerator so that they do not lose their shape and do not flow, because in the future you will need to apply hot glue to them again.
As shown in photo 4, a drop of glue should be applied to the very tip. For convenience, you can iron the candy with a pencil, but do not press hard on it so as not to flatten it.
When the preparations are finished, you can start decorating the bottle. Approximately in the center reverse side You need to apply glue to the candy, and before it hardens, press it to the bottle. It is recommended to start from the bottom, leaving no gaps between the sweets. To hide all the glue protrusions, you can add sisal fibers. They will also make the pineapple look more natural.
Photo 8 clearly shows which part of the bottle should be left untouched. Using yellow sisal, all the gaps between the sweets are filled. This stage is not necessary, but it will give the gift a more elegant look.
Then the tape is cut into pieces of approximately the same length. Instead of tape, you can use corrugated paper or other materials to your taste. The edges of each segment should be sharpened.
It is recommended to start gluing the leaves from the very top, in the center of the cork, gradually moving down towards the candies. The top of the lush pineapple tail is formed from four pieces of ribbon. Next, it is pasted over with four more sheets, spreading them apart different sides and adding splendor.
At the next stage, glue the neck, covering it with sheets. It will take about seven tiers to convey realistic foliage. You shouldn't do more, otherwise it will look too bulky.
