When it comes to party decor, you can buy or you can DIY. Learn how to create a sweet party centerpiece with items already in your craft supply! Discover the tricks to create make this sweet dimensional centerpiece using foam, wood dowels and PolyFil Polyester Fiber to create faux lollipops, cotton candy and wrapped candies! Guests will be wowed at this DIY Cotton Candy Centerpiece at your special event!
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From tween birthday milestones to sweet bat mitzvahs to carnival themed celebrations, a cotton candy centerpiece can be used for so many party themes! You can easily change the colors of this piece of party decor to match your vision and you can follow these steps to make the cotton candy stick as small or as big as you want!
DIY Candy Party Centerpiece Supplies
- PolyFil Polyster Fiber Fill
- Foam discs, balls and cones
- Wooden dowels
- Glitter
- Acrylic Paint
- Spray Paint
- Silver Pipe Cleaners
- Mod Podge Glue
- Plastic treat bags or cellophane
- Container
- Floral Foam
- Wood stands
- Paper Shred
First insert wood dowels into the foam discs and cones (with the pointy end facing down). The discs and large balls will later become lollipops while the cones will help form our cotton candy decor.
Let’s make some faux lollipops and gumballs! Paint the wood dowels of the cotton candy pieces, all the foam balls, the flat foam discs and the wood stands using acrylic paint.
Once dry, apply a layer of Mod Podge and clear fine glitter on the foam discs and balls. Allow to dry completely and apply a second layer to help seal the glitter in place.
To create the wrapped candies, add the small glittered balls into a treat bag and use twist ties on each side. Trim the bags to create a cellophane wrapped candy ball!
Let’s make some faux cotton candy pieces! Grab a small batch of Poly-Fil, Polyester Fiber fill and squeeze your hands to form a thick snake like shape. This material is so silky smooth and easy to adapt to stuff both inside a sewn craft or used in it’s raw form.
Use hot glue to apply this Poly-Fil bunch onto the cone. Wrap it as you go and continue to fill the cone to resemble a stick of cotton candy.
Next cover the painted sticks with scrap paper and apply a light layer of spray paint onto the Poly-Fil to turn it into believable cotton candy sticks! Allow this to dry completely.
Now it’s time to assemble your cotton candy centerpiece! First, glue down your floral foam block inside the container then glue it onto the painted wood block at an angle. In doing so, you allow some room in front to glue a few of the faux wrapped candies on the platform.
Carefully insert your faux lollipops and cotton candy sticks into the floral foam to create your dimensional centerpiece.
Add more paper shred into the container to cover the foam block and glue one of the wrapped candies onto the stand.
Make the party a little more fun by creating some extra faux lollipops or cotton candy sticks and allow guests to use them as photo props to play with your theme!
Guests will love fake licking and posing with your sweet party props that won’t melt or get sticky when holding!
If you create one of these faux cotton candy centerpieces using my tutorial, tag me on instagram as I’d love to see the color scheme you use for your celebration!
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