How To Make an Easter Egg Candy Bowl

Easter is the one time of the year we can have chocolate and not feel guilty.

So why not make nice and colorful decoration for your Easter table this year?

Using fresh flowers, medium and small Easter eggs you could create a beautiful centre piece.

The bonus with a centre piece like this is not only does it look good but bits of it are edible.

You will need...

9 medium sized Easter eggs
1 bag of solid Easter eggs (or candy eggs)
1 packet of wooden Skewers
1 bunch medium bowl / guard bouquet
A wet oasis
A bouquet of flowers (flowers, all the same or mixed, or even from the garden)
Stem cell volume
Wired 0.18 g

Step 1

Tailored to the oasis posy bowl.

Then press the oasis in the bowl, the guard placed in oasis and lock into place.

Wet the oasis.

Step 2

Take a bouquet of fresh flowers and break it in flowers and greenery. Take two identical flowers and give them aside. Do not trim the stems on these two flowers.

Trim the stems of the remaining flowers and greenery so that when you push them into the oasis they won't snap.

Step 3

Some flowers will need to be strengthend so they can stand up in the oasis. You can do this by wiring the flower. The gerbera is a good example of a flower that would need to be strengthened as it has a heavy head with a soft flexible stem.

To do this just push the wire through the top of the stem near the head of the flower. Use a 0.18g wire for this as the wire needs to be quite thin.

Pull the wire through so that you have wire either side of the stem. Now stem tape so the wire can't be seen.

Step 4

You must be sure to strip any lower leaves off the stems of the flowers and foliage. The reason we do this is so that there is no leaf matter near the moisture, which would cause the stems to rot.

Cut all stems at a 45 degree angle to improve water take-up.

Step 5

Take your skewers and push your Easter eggs onto them. You can stem-tape the skewers if you wish.

You will need to keep three of the medium Easter eggs on long skewers. Trim the rest to about half (if they need more trimming this can be done later)

With the soild Easter eggs you may have to heat the tip of the skewer with boiling water to help soften the chocolate.

Step 6

Push one of the medium Easter eggs into the approximate middle of the oasis, take a flower and placed before the egg.

The flower is about the middle of the spit. Now take one of the flowers, the arrangement would not push in front of the oasis, near the edge of the tub posy. Do the same on the back of the tank posy.

Make sure that both are slightly bent.

Step 7

Corners of two other eggs from the center of the egg, on the left and one on the right side. Starts to push some of the flowers in the oasis at this point. You do not want allof the oasis to show. Once all the flowers are in add the rest of the Easter eggs to help break up color. Do not group too many eggs together in the same spot.

Step 8

Now all the eggs and flowers are in place just finish off with the greenery. Place any leaves around the outer edge of the bowl. Overlapping the greenery will help to finish off the look of the table decoration giving the posy bowl a fanned look.

Place a leaf under the flowers at the front and back of the bowl. If you have any smaller leaves left then push them into the gaps in the top of the oasis.