Bouquet of soft toys with your hands: master class, photo, video for beginners

Step-by-step master class on making a bouquet of toys

A bouquet of soft toys consists of a base,which is attached to toys and decorative items. Then the bouquet turns into corrugated paper and is tied with a ribbon. To make a bouquet you can use both purchased toys and homemade ones. Perfect fit for this purpose plush toys, key chains.

To make a bunch of soft toys, you need these materials:

• 
  Stuffed Toys;


• 
  dense foam for the substrate;


• 
  Plastic, cardboard or aluminum tube for the handle;


• 
  floristic wire;


• 
  fabric for draping the base;


• 
  corrugated paper;


• 
  various decorative elements.

How to make a frame for a bouquet of soft toys

First you need to prepare the foundation. Cut out the truncated cone from the foam: the diameter of the upper part of the future bouquet where the toys will be placed should be larger than the diameter of the bottom part to which the handle will be attached. At the bottom of the base, make a hole, glue it with glue and insert a tube that will act as a handle. When the glue dries, tighten the base of the bouquet with a cloth and fasten it with hot glue, pins or a stapler.

When the base is ready, you can begin to attach toher toys. They can be glued with an adhesive gun, but it sticks toys tightly, so it will not be possible to move them to another place or remove them from the bouquet without damaging it. Therefore, it is better to use a special floristic wire for attaching the toys.

Cutting off a piece of wire of the necessary length,pierce the toy through them at the bottom, and then bend both ends of the wire so that they can be inserted into the base. Prepare in this way all the toys, stick them in the foundation in the right order. This method of attachment allows you to experiment with the location of toys and choose the most successful option in the end. Instead of floristic wire, you can put toys on thin sharpened bamboo sticks.

The space between toys can be filledvarious decorative elements, for example, artificial flowers (both homemade and purchased), strung on the wire with beads or bows, even flowers from sweets. However, it is important to remember that decorations should complement toys without closing them.

If you do not want to use additionaldecorations, but you want the bouquet to look lush, each toy can be pre-packed in a "skirt" of guipure. Finally, the handle of the bouquet should be pasted with corrugated paper or wrapped with tape. The bouquet itself is wrapped with corrugated paper or a floral mesh.

By the way, it is possible to use as a basis fora bouquet of a flower pot or a basket. Just fix the foam inside and stick toys into it in the way described above. As a result, it will seem that the toys "grow" from a pot or basket. Pot can be painted or decorated in the technique of decoupage. A wicker basket looks good and by itself, for greater solemnity, you can wrap the handle with a ribbon or tie a bow on it.

It is important to keep in mind: to make a good bouquet of toys, it is not enough just to attach soft toys to the base in a random order and wrap it all with corrugated paper. To make your article look like a whole, it is very important to think over the composition and color scheme of the bouquet. So, it is advisable not to use for the bouquet many different toys: it is better to choose toys of the same size, preferably the same. If you want to use different, make sure that they are consistent in one color scheme.

As you can see, making a bouquet of toys with your own hands, as in the photo, is not so difficult. Such an original gift will not go unnoticed and will be remembered for a long time!

Video for beginners: how to make a bouquet of soft toys with your own hands

Step-by-step master classes: