The Perfect Anytime Gift : Man Bouquet ?

To get started, I thought I would start posting some of my craft and DIY projects.  Pinterest is great for so many things - tips and tricks, recipes, etc. but my favorite is the endless DIY and craft projects.  Some of them may be unrealistic (I mean, who honestly has time to spend an extra hour a day cutting your kids' sandwiches into a dinosaur shapes with snacks to go with the lunch theme?), but many of them can be achieved!

Over the past couple months, I've seen lots of people posting various DIY gift ideas, one of which is the idea of a "Man Bouquet." When it comes to what items to include in your "Bouquet," the possibilities are endless. I'm going to show you my quick version of the bouquet and walk you through the process.

This is a great gift for Valentine's Day, Birthdays, Anniversaries or "just because."  I gave my "Bouquet" to my husband for his Birthday last April.  Here are a few photos of my completed Man Bouquet, which was made in one evening after work.

      "Man Bouquet" Material List:

• Container (some easy ideas include a basket, box, pot, mug, bucket or anything else you can think of.  I chose to use a beer bucket I had on hand)
• Styrofoam base (I used a sphere shape, but you can purchase Styrofoam in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit inside your container)
• Material to cover your base (I chose to cover my Styrofoam ball in tissue paper, but you could use anything really - tissue paper, wrapping paper, newspaper, Easter grass, etc)
• Goodies for the bouquet (the possibilities are endless, but I chose to use some lottery tickets, Cracker Jacks (got a 3-pack at Kroger), some PB crackers,  Slim Jim sticks and printed a photo that correlated with the MMA tickets I got us for that weekend)
• Wooden skewers to use as "stems" to attach the goodies to the base
• Glue gun and/or packaging tape to adhere your goodies to the wooden skewers

"Man Bouquet" Instructions:

1) Choose a container to hold your bouquet.  I chose to use a metal beer bucket we had on hand

2) Cover your base and place your base inside your container.   I used a 1/2  Styrofoam ball, which fit snugly in my bucket. My ball was purchased at Hobby Lobby using a 40% off coupon, making it around $3.50. To cover my base, I used some tissue paper I had on hand

3) Lay out your goodies to put on the "stems" - I've seen some use cigarettes, cigars, single serve alcohol bottles, candy and packs of gum.  Since we don't smoke and have an overabundance of candy and alcohol already, I decided to keep it simple with snacks and lottery tickets

4) Once you have your goodies together, you need to attach them to the stems, which I recommend using wooden skewers (the kind you use in cooking to make kabobs).  I used wood skewers in 2 different sizes to do this because I had them on hand and thought some dimension would look pleasing.

5) Adhere your goodies to the stems.  To do this, I then used both packaging tape and a glue gun

6)  Arrange your stems and insert them into your base.  You can arrange things symmetrically, or randomly place them in the foam ball.

You're finished! 


Here are some other versions of the "Man Bouquet," from which I got my inspiration.  They can all be found on my PINTEREST PAGE  linking you to the original sources

Have you made any "Man Bouquets" that were a hit?  Do you have any other ideas for goodies to include in your "Bouquet?"  I'd love to see and hear them!