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Gumdrop Cookie Bouquet

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Making a bouquet from cookies and gumdrops is easy, fun, and affordable. It makes a wonderful centerpiece for any festive occasion. It is a great edible conversation piece. These bouquets work for any festive occasion. Spring, winter, summer, or fall, is the perfect time for a cookie and gumdrop bouquet. You will need wooden skewers, cookies, gumdrops, and styrofoam.


They are easy enough for children to make and they enjoy making them. It is a perfect craft for any teaching time. What makes it even more fun is it is also edible. Usually when they are made as a craft, each child will make one, but small bouquets can also be made.


Wooden skewers can be found in most grocery stores. They are small wooden sticks usually used in barbecuing shiskabobs. The length of the skewer can be any size that you would like it to be. They can also be broken to different lengths if you want a bouquet of flowers varying in height. If children are making the flowers, cut or break off the sharp ends of the skewers to avoid injuries.


Any cookie with a hole in the middle can be used. The cookies that work best are the ones that are only one layer. Cookies free of frostings and fillings work best. Some cookies have scalloped edges that look especially nice as cookie flowers. You can look in the international section at grocery stores for interesting cookies with holes in the middle.


Gumdrops can be about any size or shape. You will need twice as many gumdrops as you do cookies or skewers. Bright colors are fun. It is also fun to plan the colors of the gumdrops around other decorations or color schemes, or holidays. It is fun to use red and green at Christmastime, orange and black at Halloween, or pastel colors at Easter.


Styrofoam glued into any vase or container will hold the flowers. A glue gun works well to secure the foam to the vase or container. Florists have special foam for making arrangements and a sticky clay material to secure it to a vase or container, but it is more expensive than Styrofoam and a glue gun.


Making the individual flowers is easy once you have all of the supplies. Begin by taking a skewer and stick a gumdrop onto one end. Push the gumdrop down the skewer about an inch. Next take a cookie and put the skewer through the center. Take another gumdrop and stick it on the end of the skewer. Make sure that the skewer doesn’t go all of the way through the second gumdrop. The top gumdrop is the center of the cookie. You don’t want to be able to see the skewer. You may need to adjust the first gumdrop that you put on the skewer up or down a little bit so that the cookie fits snuggly between the two gumdrops.


Stick the opposite end of the skewer into the Styrofoam base. The base needs to be glued into some type of container or the cookie flowers will be too heavy for the Styrofoam and the bouquet will be hard to arrange without tipping over. Arrange the cookies however you prefer. Arrangements with all of the skewers the same length looks nice. They also look nice with variegating lengths, the taller ones in the middle with shorter ones arranged around it.


Eating the flower bouquet is easy. Each person will take an entire flower with the skewer and can eat in any way they desire. It’s fun, fast, and easy! Enjoy!