“Sweet Sentiment” Craft

Materials/Tools Needed:

• Chocolate Kisses
• Green Pipe Cleaners or Wire
• Floral Tape
• Scissors
• Artificial Leaves
• Red Tissue Paper
• Glue Dots
• & Time!

 Start by putting a glue dot on the bottom of a candy kiss.

Next, using one of your pipe cleaners or wire, fold it over the bottom (securing it to the dot) with about a 2.5″ overhang.  With the leftover, fold it around the pipe cleaner at the tip to secure.

Once you have it secured, add a glue dot to the bottom of another candy and attach it to the one in the pipe cleaner.

Now we’re going to start wrapping it.  Take about a 8″ x 6″ piece of red tissue paper (or white, pink, etc., depending on you plan to give them to) and fold it over lengthwise twice and then add a small lip.  Insert your candy under that lip at one end of the paper.

Begin rolling the paper around the candy, folding it in places as you go to resemble rose petals.  You can keep it simple or get into this and try to make it as realistic as possible.  Completely up to you.

Once you have the tissue completely rolled, fold down a corner and fold it near the bottom to secure it.  This way, when you tape it, it will hide the folds and edges.  Using floral tape, start at the tip of the candy and work down, until you have the red completely covered and secure.

Now, using whatever you wish for greenery, attach a piece to the bottom.  I was using artificial leaves that I could just insert on the pipe cleaner and drag up to the bottom, but you are welcome to use single leaves and then just do the floral tape all the way down the pipe cleaner or wire to cover as you go – completely your call.

When you’ve finished however many you wish to create, you can insert them into a small vase, make a corsage or whatever it is that you think your Valentine would enjoy.  Since I used the pipe cleaners, there wasn’t much stability, so I had to make them where I could lay them down to present them.

Hope you like it!  Leave me a comment and let me know what you would do different, or what you would add, etc.  Be sure to tweet, pin, share, etc. – thanks!!

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