Workbench
Basics
Parental
advisory
Combine flowers and
plants with useful items from other departments in your store to
make great gifts for all occasions.
These creative designs are perfect examples of how to
incorporate items from the other departments in your store into
quick and easy gift ideas. Try these baby-focused arrangements,
or create ideas of your own to fit whatever holiday or occasion
your customers request. Each of these designs would be great for
customers looking to send flowers to a new mother still in the
hospital or for baby shower attendees who want to present
something that’s as much for the parent-to-be as the
child-on-the-way since they incorporate baby necessities with
fresh flowers in creative and attractive ways.
HOW-TO:
Tie ribbon around the
neck of the vase, incorporating two pacifiers into the
middle of the bow.
MATERIALS:
Milk Jug vase from Syndicate Sales; pink carnations,
ribbon and pacifiers from favorite suppliers.
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HOW-TO:
Remove the lid from
one baby bottle. Wrap the three bottles together with
waterproof tape, and cover the tape with ribbon, tying the
removed lid into the bow.
MATERIALS:
Pink carnations, baby bottles, waterproof tape and
ribbon from favorite suppliers.
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HOW-TO:
Hot-glue a wood pick
to the back of each bottle, and pick the bottles into the
potted miniature rose plant.
MATERIALS:
Wrapped potted miniature rose plant, baby bottles and wood
picks from favorite suppliers.
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HOW-TO:
Wrap a rose and a
stem of foliage in pink cellophane, then slide the handle of
a pacifier up over the cello to hold the design together.
Decorate the bundle with a length of ribbon.
MATERIALS:
Roses, foliage, pink cellophane, pacifiers and ribbon
from favorite suppliers.
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