Candy Bouquet

When one becomes an adult, you eventually realize that your parents have countless "Number 1 Dad" mugs, "Worlds Best Mom" hot mitts and endless desk decorations or nick knacks. The challenge then becomes what to get them for holidays that is not always a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant. Since my dad loves candy, I decided a candy bouquet would be perfect. 

You'll need wooden dowels for this project along with a vase or bucket that is deep enough that the candy won't tip it over. 

 Take the dowel and tape candy to the dowel. For bigger candy bars, you may want to use two dowels, or just extra tape.

 The Hershey's bar and Reeces are doubled up on dowels. My dad loves Red Vines so I put a few pieces in ziploc bags and then taped the bags to the wooden dowels. 

 In the bottom of the vase, put m&m's, or any kind of mini candies as "water" or "soil". Then add in some tissue paper. 

 Inside the tissue paper (because there's not enough sugar already) I added caramel kisses. 

 Then stick your candy dowels down into the "rocks". It will put holes in the tissue paper, but you won't be able to tell until you take the paper out. On the back, I attached some of our favorite memories of growing up with dad that I gathered from my siblings.  

The final product! The vase reads "Happy Father's Day Dad. Thanks for all the 'sweet' memories!"