Sweet candy topiary: a delicious holiday bouquet. Sweet topiary: tree, apple, bouquet and candy clock

Modern craftsmen make topiaries from a variety of materials, including even sweets. In particular, such a type of craft as candy topiary is very popular. The popularity of such creations is well justified. First of all, trees of happiness made in this way ideally complement any interior.

And here is a brief step-by-step description:

  1. We prepare materials and tools (a wooden “trunk” of a tree, a pot, a foam ball as a base for the crown, ribbons, sisal and beads for additional decoration. You will also need scissors and a glue gun.
  2. Using scissors, we make a hole in the ball for the barrel, and using the blank for the barrel itself we make it more even.
  3. Using a glue gun, glue the candies to the ball.
  4. Wrap the barrel with decorative tape (use a little glue to secure it).
  5. Then we make additional decorations with sisal.
  6. We insert the trunk into the base (pot).
  7. After the final decoration with ribbons and beads, your candy topiary is ready!

Remember! If you don’t have some material, you can replace it with something at hand: use a plastic one instead of a foam ball, roll it out of paper, and so on.

Making a tree from marshmallow candies

It's hard to find a person who doesn't like marshmallows. This sweet is popular among both children and adults. That is why in this article we will look at how to make topiary from such a dessert. First of all, you will need to acquire:

  • approximately 0.5 kg of chewing marshmallows;
  • plastic stick;
  • cling film;
  • satin ribbon;
  • glaze;
  • a bar of white chocolate;
  • a small flower pot;
  • foam ball;
  • artificial moss;
  • clean brush;
  • plaster.

Attention! You can also make a kind of “candy bouquet” from Raffaello, from Chupa Chups, from marmalade: there are plenty of options for topiary from candies.

When you make this candy topiary with your own hands, the master class will require you to go through 2 stages of work. As in the case of the lollipop craft, the first stage will be devoted to preparing the base. Here the steps are as follows:

  • pierce the foam ball with a plastic stick;
  • wrap the ball with prepared cling film;
  • knead a gypsum solution in a flower pot;
  • insert a stick and ball structure into it;
  • hold the craft with your hands until the solution reaches the desired hardness.

Set the frame aside to dry completely, and do the following work yourself:

  • prepare the glaze mixture;
  • take a bar of white chocolate and melt it in a water bath;
  • mix these two components;
  • when the frame has hardened well, take the craft, soak a brush in the chocolate-glaze solution and apply the mixture to the surface of the ball;
  • attach marshmallow pieces to the mixture;
  • transfer the craft to a cool corner for 40 minutes;
  • after that, wrap the trunk with a satin ribbon and decorate the bottom with artificial moss.

March 15th, 2015 ale4ka


Candy topiary is a handmade sweet bouquet of flowers and an unusual tree in one design! A sophisticated gift for true gourmets, inspiring a desire to eat it, can be safely presented on March 8, a birthday, a wedding or any other holiday. Making such a topiary with your own hands is quite simple - you just need to arm yourself with the necessary material and put in a little effort.

Below you will find a detailed master class on creating topiary from candy.

So, we will need:

  • pot (plant pot without a hole in the bottom, glass or bucket),
  • pieces of foam plastic,
  • building plaster (alabaster),
  • barbecue skewers,
  • twine or ribbons for decorating the trunk,
  • floral oasis (can be replaced with polystyrene foam, polyurethane foam or newspapers),
  • floral corrugated paper in green and pink colors,
  • toothpicks,
  • cling film,
  • thin tape,
  • tapelanta,
  • sewing threads,
  • organza,
  • various beads and other decorations for decoration,
  • tools: scissors, hot glue, knife, stapler,
  • and of course, the most important thing - sweets.

Creating a frame with your own hands, fixing it in a pot

Wooden barbecue skewers will serve as the trunk. Put 8 sticks together, wrap them tightly with twine and secure the ends with hot glue. You should not wrap the workpiece completely; the ends of the barrel will not be visible in the finished product.

From a piece of floral oasis (in this master class we use it, but if desired, you can use foam or crumpled newspapers), using a knife and your hands we form a block, cut off the corners and bring it closer to the shape of a ball. There is no need to achieve perfection; inaccuracies will still not be noticeable under the frame of the crown. Then we insert the barrel into the oasis base ball.

Now We fix the frame in the pot. We place the trunk in the pot, fill the space between the walls and the stick with pieces of foam plastic. Then we fill it all with a pre-prepared alabaster solution whose density resembles thick sour cream. Leave the topiary base alone for a couple of hours until it dries.

Preparing the candies

To ensure that the topiary remains intact and continues to delight us, even after the sweet filling is destroyed, we will not attach the candies directly to the toothpicks, but first we will wrap them in cling film. To do this, bend the ears and wrap the candy in film. We wrap the assembled film around a toothpick and secure it with tape. This way the candies will be removed without harming the entire composition.

Flower making and assembly

Sepals we make it from green corrugated paper, to do this we cut the paper into strips, and then the strips into squares with sides of 6 cm. On one side we cut out the cloves, which we then twist, as shown in the photo:

Rose petals can be done separately, but in this master class I prepared a ribbon of petals. We cut out strips from corrugated paper - 7 cm wide, then fold the strips into accordion shapes - 5 cm wide. And then we cut out the petal as shown in the photo:

Give the petals a shape. First, stretch the top edge of the tape, and then twist the corners with a toothpick. Then we make a hole in each petal for the sweets, also stretching the paper with our own hands (see photo):

Petals for the flower core we do it separately, in the same way we cut out small rectangles, give them shape, stretch them out and twist the corners. The result should be two types of petals, as shown in the photo:

We collect roses. We put the candy on a toothpick, a kind of “lollipop,” into a narrow petal for the core, then put it on and wrap it with a wider petal. Secure with a drop of glue. Next, we wrap the resulting bud with a ribbon of their petals, sometimes securing the structure with glue, but try to have as little glue as possible so as not to weigh down the flowers. We wrap thread around the base of the flower. Next, glue the sepals to the base and wrap the resulting stem with tape (see photo). We admire the finished flower. We make the required number of roses.

We make pound cakes from organza. We cut out the squares, mine turned out to be 12x12 cm, fold the squares into triangles (so that the corners do not coincide slightly), then fold the triangles into an accordion in 3 folds (see photo). We make as many pounds as possible.

We collect topiary. Surely the base for the tree has dried out well during this time. Now all we have to do is cover the oasis with roses. We leave enough space between them for greenery.

The finishing touch (decoration)

There is very little left: we fill the gaps between the roses with pound cakes, and we also mask the “soil” in the pot with organza. We decorate the finished product with beads (see photo):

The master class has come to an end. We ended up with such a tender and sweet tree! It is made with your own hands, and this is the most valuable thing in every gift, and any sweet tooth will be happy with such a gift.

Sweet gifts have been in demand at all times. Any sweet tooth will be delighted with a box of chocolates given to him, so sweets remain universal gifts, especially if there is nothing else to give.

But for many people, ordinary sweets do not seem like an attractive gift, because for every holiday they want to receive something unusual and original. And in this case they will help amazing creations - sweet topiary.

The word “topiary” was originally used exclusively by gardeners and landscape designers, because it was the name of the art of designing and caring for a garden. Since ancient times, gardeners have decorated the houses of the nobility with unusual triangular and spherical trees. It was believed that such decorations would bring happiness and wealth to the owner of the house, so every person of high status sought to have such a tree in their garden. Modern gardeners have improved their skills, and now in parks all over the world you can find amazing sculptures of animals and various figures made from ordinary trees.

Not so long ago, the term “topiary” moved into the field of needlework. However, the word has practically not changed its meaning. In needlework, it also means a round tree, but only made from various materials: candy, coffee, money and other things. Superstitious people believe that such a gift symbolizes success and smart thoughts in the head, so such a tree will bring only positive emotions. The article will focus on do-it-yourself candy topiary, master classes for which are presented below.

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Next topiary can be made from any candy. Candies whose candy wrapper is twisted into a small tail are especially suitable, so it will be easier to attach them to the product. Making a candy tree with your own hands is easy if you follow the master class below.

Use if desired decorative flowers mixed with candies or other similar decorations, so that when the sweets are removed from the tree, the decoration does not deteriorate and can be used as decoration.

Chupa Chups topiary

Lollipops and their analogues are well suited for such decorative trees. When making candy trees, special attention is paid to them, because they do not need to be additionally wound to a wooden skewer; they can be inserted into the product onto sticks already attached to the candy. In addition, lollipop topiary is cheaper: lollipops cost only a few rubles and are cheaper to buy than chocolate candies. Making a lollipop tree is very simple, the following master class will tell you about it:

  1. Take the base (foam ball) and start piercing it with lollipops until you cover the entire crown of the tree with them, except for a small hole at the bottom.
  2. Attach the ball to the trunk, a stable stick.
  3. Place the product in a pot filled with polyurethane foam. Make sure that the topiary is securely attached to the pot and will not break, even if several people pull the candies out of it at once. It is especially important to check the strength of the product if it is given as a gift to small children.
  4. Decorate the tree using ribbons, fabric, acrylic paints, rhinestones, buttons and any other decorative items.

candy apple

Interesting topiary, the production of which does not require a lot of time, effort and materials - an apple. Master Class Below will tell you in detail how to make such an original gift with your own hands:

  1. Wrap the candies on a wooden skewer with tape. Wrap each candy in a small piece of floral organza, as if making a small bouquet.
  2. Make holes in the foam ball with a stick, pour a little glue into each, and then insert wooden skewers with wrapped candies into them, filling absolutely the entire area of ​​the ball.
  3. Attach a small stick, tube or real branch to the top. First wrap the stick in brown crepe paper (if you are using a tree branch, you can omit this step).
  4. Decorate with decorative leaves or cut them out of thick colored paper.

Sweet bouquet

To make a good topiary, you don't have to make a whole tree. Such large items are usually difficult to transport if the recipient lives nearby and you do not have your own transport.

In this case it will be much easier to bring candy topiary, a master class on the production of which is described below, if the tree is in the form of a bouquet:

  1. Using the familiar pattern, attach the candies to a long wooden skewer.
  2. From a sheet of red (pink, white, any other rose color) crepe paper, cut out several petals of different shapes and sizes.
  3. Take a small rectangular sheet the size of your chosen candy and wrap it around it, making the base for the bud.
  4. Now start attaching the rose petals, tucking the top to achieve a loose flower effect. Secure each attached petal with tape. Wrap the candy so that it can be seen by looking inside.
  5. Cut out a green sepal, make a hole in the middle and attach it to the base of the bud.
  6. Wrap the stem in the form of a wooden skewer in green crepe paper. If desired, wrap the buds in organza “skirts”.
  7. Assemble the bouquet and wrap it in two layers of crepe paper. The first layer should cover the entire bouquet up to the flowers, and the second layer is made slightly smaller than the first and is used as a decoration. You can wrap the bouquet with floral fabric in a second layer.

Marmalade is children's favorite sweet, and it is from this that you can make a wonderful decoration for a sweet table - a bouquet of marmalade with your own hands. This beauty will delight any child and will also make an excellent and creative candy dish. Making a marmalade bouquet with your own hands is very simple:

  1. Buy marmalade of different colors: be sure to yellow (the core of the flower) and any others.
  2. Take a piece of cellophane film and place it on your palm. Place a yellow marmalade in the center, and arrange the rest around it in the shape of a flower.
  3. Pierce the core with a wooden skewer, pushing it forward a little, and then carefully wrap the marmalade in film without ruining the shape of the flower. Tie the film tightly so that the product does not fall apart inside.
  4. Paint the “stalk” green or wrap it with green paper. If desired, attach decorative leaves and wrap the bouquet in a sheet of colored paper. Flowers can also be placed in a pot or basket.

DIY topiary “Clock”

Such a gift will be especially relevant for the New Year. Making a watch with your own hands is quite simple and the following master class will prove this:

  1. Cut two circles of the required size from cardboard.
  2. Wrap them in corrugated paper.
  3. Make a strip of cardboard that can easily wrap around circles. Wrap it in colored paper.
  4. Roll the ribbon into a circle and place the previously cut circles on both sides. The result is three-dimensional circles.
  5. Glue candies onto a cardboard strip (it is best to choose ones in the form of sticks).
  6. Decorate the front side of the watch with beads, gluing them along the edges using a glue gun. Use beads of a different color to lay out the hands and symbols of the clock. You can add a small piece of tinsel and decorate it with a bell.

DIY candy topiary, the master classes for which were shown above are quite simple to do if you put in a little effort.

Topiary made of sweets is an unexpected, beautiful and exquisite gift for the holiday. This is a truly gorgeous creation that will delight little children, bring joy to the face of any girl, and the amazement and gratitude of parents. The festive table for the birthday of your beloved child can be decorated with a marmalade tree.

Just a little time, a few tips, a good imagination - and even a banal gift in the form of candies or Raffaello will become a work of art. Anyone can make a topiary out of candy with their own hands.

A little about the gift

Candy topiary is an original tree whose crown is made from any sweets. It is believed that such a tree brings joy, happiness, and success in all endeavors. Previously, gardeners called topiary trees originally trimmed in the form of triangles, squares or circles. Then the designers decided that this execution technique could be used to decorate a variety of sweets and presented as an original gift - a topiary made from sweets.

You can make topiary with your own hands; the master class will help a beginner. To work you should prepare:

  1. A bucket, a wide glass or a flower pot (there should be no holes in the bottom of the prepared vessel).
  2. Foam plastic, gypsum.
  3. Wooden skewers, decorative ribbons, green and red corrugated paper.
  4. Toothpicks for attaching candies, cling film.
  5. Sharp scissors, thread and needle, decorative mesh and beads to decorate the finished product.
  6. The main element of the gift is ordinary candy or Raffaello.

Cooking instructions

First you need to prepare the trunk of the future tree. Place 8-10 wooden skewers together and carefully wrap them with beige thread or twine. In this case, leave the ends of the barrel unwound. They will be attached to the rest of the gift components.

Next, a cube is cut out of polystyrene foam and given a rounded shape with a knife, cutting off sharp corners. One end of the barrel is attached to this homemade ball, and the other is secured in a bucket. Pieces of unnecessary foam plastic or paper are placed on the sides, and all holes are sealed with construction plaster. The frame for the future topiary is left until the building mixture hardens.

Now you need to prepare the sweets. To do this, wrap them in cling film and carefully attach a toothpick to them. To make a candy topiary, you need to make approximately 10-15 such blanks. You can use the same amount of lollipops.

After this, flower petals are cut out from red corrugated paper; for 1 sweet element you will need 5-7 petals, the upper edges of which need to be slightly curled. Each candy on a toothpick is wrapped with petals, thereby making a rosebud. A small ribbon of 6-7 cm is cut out of green paper, the upper edge is cut, forming deep teeth, which are then rolled into a tube. The prepared leaves are glued to the bottom of the bud. Instead of sweets, you can use Raffaello.

Raffaello is attached to the foam using glue or double-sided tape. And the skewer is decorated with a bright red ribbon and a large bow. In addition, the sweets themselves can be wrapped in white or red mesh, then small hearts can be glued on. A girl will like such an original gift, and any man can make it.

The master must stick the finished rose buds into the foam at the same distance from each other. Next you need to cut out 10-12 squares of 15 by 15 cm from green mesh or organza.

Fold the squares in half to form a triangle. Then they are collected a little with an accordion and secured with a toothpick. At the end, candy wrappers made of material are inserted between the buds into the foam. And the bucket is decorated with decorative ribbon and organza. The tips of the candy wrappers can be decorated with beads and stones.

Candy topiaries can be made in a simplified version. The execution technique remains the same. First, prepare a foam ball and place it on a skewer or plastic tube. They are decorated with ribbon, organza, and foil. The upper part is fixed in a wide glass, filled with asbestos and construction foam.

The crown of the tree can be decorated with lollipops. All prepared parts are decorated with multi-colored paper, and the lower part is decorated with foil and New Year's rain. To make the gift more festive, you can attach burgundy corrugated paper around the lollipops. To do this, you need to cut out the required number of squares 12 by 12 cm, pierce them strictly in the center with a candy stick, then slightly bend the edges up. After this step, the prepared blanks are inserted into a foam ball.

Topiary made from lollipops looks original and will appeal to the child. And additional decoration with paper will make it festive.

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Marmalade miracle

Most mothers, preparing for a children's party, ask themselves the question of how to make topiary from marmalade? It's pretty easy. For the base, take a beautiful vase, in the center of which a stick with a foam ball at the end is placed. Strengthen the base with a variety of decorative stones. Then each piece of marmalade is wrapped in transparent film and placed on a toothpick approximately to the middle. You need to take multi-colored marmalade, then the composition will turn out more refined.

Next, place the gummies on the ball so that sweets of the same color form a line. There should be as many lines as there are colors of marmalade (the lines can be horizontal, vertical, even oblique). You can place sweets in a chaotic manner or make small flowers, which are then carefully placed in a vase. It all depends on your imagination.

Making an original topiary or a bouquet of candies with your own hands is quite simple if you follow the manufacturing rules. Such a work will decorate the holiday table, and the gift can be eaten. And if you try a little, the topiary frame will remain intact.

Candy topiary (video)

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The history of the origins of the art of topiary stretches back to ancient times and involved the curly cutting of green plants. Intricate tree figures could be observed in the gardens of the Roman nobility, whose original shape was given by court slave gardeners.

A modern topiary is a miniature copy of trees and bushes, and it depends only on the imagination of a skilled florist what shape of crown he will give to his own tree. Topiary is a tree of happiness that has regained its popularity in modern European floristry.

DIY topiary for a wedding

You can make topiary for a wedding with your own hands. To get started, check out the ideas for wedding topiary shapes in our gallery.

Aren't the ideas simply charming? Can you imagine the faces of the newlyweds if you present them with a “wedding tree of happiness” as a gift? Or maybe your family is planning a celebration, and you will be able to make beautiful decorations for the wedding table yourself, surprising you not only with your original idea, but also with your craftsmanship.

For example, we offer you an interesting wedding decor in the form of topiary, on which you will not have to spend a lot of money and effort. Please prepare the following materials:

  • Original pot for a flowerpot
  • Twig for the trunk
  • Hot melt adhesive
  • Stipler
  • Beads
  • Beads
  • Cotton pads
  • Green crepe paper

So let's get to work.

  • Our wedding tree will consist of roses, which we will make from ordinary cotton pads at the rate of one pad - one rose
  • Fold the two sides of the disk towards the center so that we get a wide edge on one side and a sharp edge on the other, and fasten it in the center with a stapler
  • Now carefully unfold the wide edge outward, and the first white rose bud is born in your hands
  • Do the same with other disks - the number of roses depends on how wide your ball is



  • Let's start preparing the crown for the wedding tree of happiness. To create it, you can use polystyrene foam, crumpled newspapers into a ball.
  • The main thing is that the material for the base is not heavy. Wrap the ball on top with a white sheet of paper and secure it with glue to the prepared twig, which in your case will serve as the trunk
  • Glue the ball to the base of the barrel with hot glue
  • The next step is gluing the roses. They need to be glued thickly, pressed tightly against each other so that the base is not even visible


  • At this stage of the work, you need to take crepe paper and cut out small squares from it that will serve as small leaves. Glue them with PVA glue


  • Finally, place white beads on the bouquet in a chaotic pattern using hot glue.
  • It's time to decorate the pot
  • A beautiful small vessel or yogurt jar is perfect for this purpose.
  • Pour dry plaster into a container and fill it with water until it reaches the consistency of thick sour cream.
  • Carefully, in the center, insert the tree of happiness and let it dry well. Ideally, you should leave it overnight.


  • The next day we will start decorating the tree trunk. We put white beads on a thread and secure the beads under the tree crown. Wrap a spiral around the trunk and secure the beads at the base of the tree with glue. Cover with a layer of small beads
  • Depending on what kind of tree pot you have chosen, you can come up with a decoration for the wedding theme; white organza is ideal
  • Tie it with a bow and your wedding topiary is ready

Topiary on a glass master class

If we’re going to make a surprise for the wedding, then let’s do it in its entirety - add glasses for the bride and groom along with the beautiful wedding topiary. But the glasses will not be simple, but super interesting.

After all, you will make the topiary on the glasses with your own hands. This means that you will pour your whole soul and love into them, while wishing the bride and groom many happy and cheerful years in strong love.

Video: Master class DIY wedding glasses

Topiary for March 8

  • The holiday of March 8 is considered women's holiday. At the same time, a joyful mood is observed in everyone, regardless of gender and age. A holiday in itself brings joy and in order to enhance it, it is customary to give interesting gifts
  • At all times, men gave women flowers - be it a beautifully decorated bouquet or flowers in pots. But if you want to pleasantly surprise your woman, you can use the idea of ​​topiary
  • Moreover, there are many options for holiday topiaries, and you can always choose the one that will touch the heart of your loved one





Rose napkin topiary step by step instructions

So, let's get to work - we will create roses.

  • In order to create this magnificent beauty, we will prepare napkins of a certain color
  • In our free time from work, we’ll start turning them into rosebuds. Cut each napkin into 4 parts
  • Take one part of the napkin and fold it as shown in the photo. That is, not in half, one third
  • We do the same with the rest of the parts. For a rosebud you will need 2 napkins. And again, you can adjust the size of the buds yourself


  • Now we form the bud by twisting. We shape each petal with our fingers, giving the bud a beautiful shape. This is what you should get as a result.


  • We glue the finished rose buds from napkins tightly to the ball.


  • For topiary for Valentine's Day, you can use white and red napkins for roses, and decorate the structure with hearts and Cupid's arrow
  • For example, you can take note of this option for making roses




  • For Women's Day on March 8, buds of any color are suitable. The main thing is to do it from the heart and with love, and decorate the topiary itself with decorative elements that will correspond to the holiday

Topiary for the New Year

Topiary for the New Year should symbolize the solemnity of the event. We have already talked about what topiary is and what are the basic principles of its manufacture.

But what is topiary for the New Year? You guessed it - it’s customary to make wishes on New Year’s Eve. And if you decide to make a New Year’s tree of happiness with your own hands, then you will have every opportunity to securely secure your wish with durable glue.


Before you start making it, you need to decide on its shape. New Year's topiary can have a traditionally round shape, but you can also give it a curly shape, such as a Christmas tree shape.

We will consider the option of topiary made from Christmas balls. You will need to prepare:

  1. Christmas tree balls in silver or golden color (you can combine the colors of the balls)
  2. Foam for base
  3. stick
  4. Potty
  5. Polystyrene foam for ball
  6. New Year's design elements - pine cones, decorative berries and fruits
  • If you have selected a pot for the New Year theme, you can leave it as it is now. In another case, the pot must initially be decorated with satin fabric and secured to the base of the pot with double-sided tape
  • Immediately place foam inside the pot, which will serve as a reliable support for your topiary. Secure the trunk in the middle of the oasis - it can be an ordinary stick wrapped in satin ribbon or a cardboard base made from cling foil or film
  • At this stage, attach the foam to the upper part of the trunk of the tree of happiness, having previously made it into a ball shape. The moment has come when we will form the crown of the tree with our own hands. In our case, these are New Year's toys-balls. Place each individual ball on toothpicks and glue them at the base. Now insert the toothpicks with balls tightly into the crown ball.
  • If you use large balls, then the spaces between them can be filled with small balls and decorated with beads and tinsel
  • To ensure that your design holds up well, we recommend gluing the balls together at the end of the work.

Don't be afraid to use your imagination, add or change elements at your discretion. The main rule is that they match each other in color!

DIY Christmas topiary

Soon after the New Year celebration comes the Christmas holiday. Naturally, you can use your New Year’s topiary for Christmas. But! You all know very well that Christmas is always associated with the colors red, white and green. Therefore, if you decide to make another Topiary, then use the decorations in these exact shades.

Topiary made of fresh and juicy strawberries in the form of a Christmas tree. You can use this delicious strawberry decor not only for Christmas, but also for any holiday, formal buffet or banquet.

To make a Christmas tree of happiness in the form of a Christmas tree, you will need to prepare:

  • Foam cone
  • Cling film or foil
  • Stand in the form of a vase or pot
  • Fresh mint, basil or lettuce leaves
  • Chocolate
  • Strawberries – 2 kg
  • Powdered sugar
  • Cannon,
  • Toothpicks
  • Bows for decoration

So, let's begin the exciting process.

  • First, securely attach the foam cone to the base using hot glue. Now wrap the cone-trunk of the future fruit tree with cling film or foil
  • Carefully sort the strawberries and select only healthy rafts with pointed ends, approximately the same size

Lay out on the table all the necessary elements for work:

  1. Toothpicks
  2. Chocolate
  3. Blackberries
  4. Strawberries without green leaves
  5. Floral pins
  • Start working from the bottom, carefully in a circle. In this case, it is not the cone that needs to be rotated, but the base. Dip each strawberry upside down into melted chocolate, place it on a toothpick and attach it to the cone.
  • Close the gaps between the strawberries with mint or basil leaves using floral pins. Try to attach leaves at a distance of 7-8 cm from each other
  • You can also insert blackberries in between the strawberries, which will give your tree an even more original look.
  • Decorate the top of your Christmas topiary with carom, or you can cut out a Christmas star from a mango or pineapple. If you don’t have either one or the other, then you can also decorate the top with an original bow
  • Before serving, sprinkle the strawberries with powdered sugar, which will give your tree a more festive look with a snowy effect.


Topiary made from banknotes

A gift in the form of a topiary made from banknotes – a real money tree – will cause a lot of delight and pleasant emotions for the birthday boy!!!

To make such a great gift, you will need:

  1. Hot melt glue, PVA glue
  2. Newspapers and threads
  3. Wooden skewers
  4. Napkin
  5. Leg-split
  6. Paper bills
  7. Coins
  8. Sackcloth
  9. Gold acrylic paint
  10. Golden lace
  • First let's decorate the pot
  • You can take a sour cream container, or buy an original flower pot shape especially for this occasion.
  • Paint the top of the pot with gold acrylic paint and set it aside to let the paint dry thoroughly.
  • If necessary, you can apply another coat of paint.
  • Grease the rest of the pot with PVA glue and wrap it tightly with twine, securing the tip with hot glue.

How to make a topiary ball from newspaper

  • Crumple the newspapers into a ball approximately 10cm in diameter.
  • Wrap it with regular sewing thread
  • Now tear the colored napkin and coat the ball with a thin layer of glue
  • Stick 1-2 layers of napkins to the ball so that the threads are not visible
  • Let the glue dry well
  • Using a knife, make a hole in the ball for the future trunk
  • Take 10-15 skewers and tie them together with threads at both ends. Pour a little glue into the hole of the ball and immediately insert the skewers with sharp ends. Lubricate the trunk with glue and wrap it tightly with twine. Secure the end of the twine securely with glue
  • Dilute the plaster with water until it becomes thick sour cream and pour it into the pot. Insert the finished barrel with the ball into the center and hold it in this position for a while so that the plaster sets well. Otherwise your trunk may become askew
  • After 30 minutes, you can start decorating the crown of the money tree.
  • While the plaster dries, prepare the blanks. To do this you will need souvenir bills and a gold ribbon.
  • Fold the bill like an accordion, tie it in the middle with gold thread, and glue the edges together to form a disk. For your ball you will need approximately 18-20 discs
  • Glue the discs onto the ball, starting from the bottom. Your ball is ready
  • Now you can make various fans, scrolls, airplanes, etc. from banknotes. Glue them in the places where you like best - the main thing is that your tree turns out lush and interesting
  • All that remains is to decorate the stand. For this you can use green moss or sisal. Place a small burlap bag under the tree, putting coins in it and tying it on top with gold thread
  • Your money tree is a topiary of banknotes, ready. Enjoy its beauty and sophisticated look


Pearl topiary

Pearl topiary will be a wonderful decoration for the interior of your room or wedding table. There are many options for making it and all of them are simply amazing. See for yourself.



Candy topiary

Remember, we recently discussed with you the option of making topiary for Christmas. For this we used fresh strawberries. And now a new proposal is to make topiary from candies.

Such an unusual attribute is perfect for any celebration, but above all, for a children's party, which will make it unusual and original. It will delight you not only with its design, but also with its internal content.




Video: Master class Bouquet of sweets

Video: Candy topiary for Valentine's Day

Fruit topiary

For fruit lovers, it is not difficult to make topiary to suit their taste. It will not only decorate the interior of their home, but will also remind them of a wonderful and warm summer all year round. I will tell you how to make a bright decorative topiary from fruits. By the way, you can make any fruit tree using this technique.

So, let's start making topiary from fruits.

We will need:

  • Flowerpots
  • Wires
  • Styrofoam ball
  • Decorative leaves and apples
  • Brown acrylic paint
  • Hot glue
  • Ribbon or chain
  • Wooden skewers – 4 pcs.
  • Any decorative element - butterfly, bird, etc.

Let's start by using thick wire to form the trunk and branch of a fruit tree. We fasten them with thin wire.


Fill the plaster with water until the consistency of thick sour cream is formed. Pour the mixture into the flowerpot and place the trunk of our future tree in the center.


Topiary made from knitting threads

If you knit, then, of course, after each of your creations you have extra threads. Diversify your creative abilities, thereby surprising your loved ones with a new hobby - topiary made from knitting threads.

The technology for making topiary in this case remains the same, but the appearance will differ in many ways. To create an original topiary, you can use multi-colored balls of thread or crochet original flowers from them, which will decorate the top of your tree of happiness.



Here is an example of what flowers you can knit yourself. Naturally, you shouldn’t follow an example, because, as if you are a needlewoman, you can come up with new creations on your own. These can be flowers, cones, fruits, vegetables, and even various figures of moths, birds, etc.



Topiary with photographs inside

There is no doubt that a gift in the form of a tree of happiness with a photograph inside will not go unnoticed and will evoke a lot of positive emotions in the hero of the occasion.

It’s not difficult to make, you just need to choose the right photo and come up with the shape of the tree crown. This topiary looks original for Valentine's Day.

You can choose a heart shape and put your photo in the middle. Intrigued? Naturally. Then nothing can stop you from making such an original proposal with your own hands.



Topiary from improvised means

Such a popular interior decoration as topiary, it turns out, can be made from the most ordinary available materials. You can use coffee beans, pasta, and even ordinary colored paper as decoration. By the way, the latest version is ideal for those mothers who want to teach their child to art. Your child will take great pleasure in making it.

To make it you will need the following materials:

  • Colored paper
  • Wooden stick
  • Baby puree jar
  • Masking tape
  • PVA glue
  • Figured hole punch in the shape of a flower

If you don’t have such a hole punch in your house, then you can involve your child in the process of cutting out flowers.

So, crumple up a ball from newspapers and wrap it with masking tape. Lubricate the end of a wooden stick with PVA glue or Moment and immediately insert it into the ball, after making a hole in it with scissors.

Using a flower hole punch, we cut out flowers from multi-colored paper - you will need about 100 pieces, depending on the size of the ball and the flowers themselves.

Finally, let's decorate our topiary with a beautiful bow.

Felt topiary, photo

Material such as felt looks very beautiful on the tree of happiness - topiary. The result is not only a somewhat unusual tree, but also an appetizing one. Some of its types strongly resemble the large Chupa Chups candy that children love to enjoy.

You can also involve children in this process, because this material is easy to work with. But as a result you can get the most beautiful creations. A little flight of children's imagination and a gift for the birthday of classmates, ready.

Topiary for beginners with satin ribbons

Who among us in childhood did not try to make roses from satin ribbons? Probably everyone. But none of us could even imagine that several of these roses would help create an amazingly beautiful topiary.

So, satin ribbons, a little design tricks and topiary can really decorate any celebration, become a great gift for a birthday or Valentine's Day, serve as a decoration on a wedding table, etc. Are you inspired? Then let's get started.

Naturally, to create a topiary from satin ribbons, first of all you need to stock up on satin ribbons - choose their color to your liking, depending on the nature of the holiday.

  • Just don’t forget to secure each of them with hot glue from the bottom. Now let's start making topiary. We will usually need a pot, a stick, and a ball
  • We do exactly the same as in previous cases. We assemble a structure from a ball and the trunk of the future tree of happiness and begin to carefully and tightly place the prepared roses on the ball, fixing them with a drop of hot glue
  • The ball is ready, all that remains is to add a few design touches and... Here is the result. Beautiful, isn't it? With such a gift you can immediately go to your beloved girl


Flying topiary

And for dessert, we suggest you make a slightly unusual topiary - a flying one. It sounds unusual, but it looks interesting. I have no doubt that you are simply intrigued by this idea and are in a hurry to find out how you can make such an original topiary with your own hands.

Does it look like a figure in zero gravity? You have a lot of questions now – I’m sure of it. But, you can really do this yourself, and don’t hesitate.


To make a “Floating Cup of Coffee” you will need to prepare:

  • Pliers,
  • glue gun,
  • Cup,
  • Saucer,
  • Arabica coffee,
  • Aluminum fork.

You may be surprised to see the name aluminum fork in the component materials. Aluminum because it is easier to bend - we need to bend it with the letter “zyu”, that is, in the shape of a future waterfall.


  • So, the fork was bent. Now we need to securely glue it with hot glue on one side to the saucer and the other to the cup. To be secure, secure the top with tape.
  • Now we need polyethylene foam, which can be found in dish packaging. Cut it to the width of the future waterfall and glue it to the fork
  • We select large coffee beans and begin to paste them onto the tape on both sides. Make sure there is no empty space left. Coffee beans can be glued in several layers


  • Let the glue dry well and you can start decorating. Coffee beans can be coated with a layer of varnish. But in this case, the coffee will not release its aroma. So it's up to you. Decorate the cup with a beautiful bow, put cinnamon sticks on the saucer - in short, let your imagination run wild
  • You already have the basis, and the decoration is in your hands. So you have already learned how to make beautiful topiaries with your own hands

Craft, offer your ideas and delight people close to you with new works of your creativity.

Video: Ribbon Topiary


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