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Happy
Father's
Day
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Make
Dad's day pop with
this good-humored
flower arrangement
as light-hearted as
he is. Sure to
bring a smile to
Dad's face and let
him know how happy
he makes you feel.
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Petals
and
Pop
for
Pop
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Recipe
by
Jill
Slater
Courtesy
of
the
Flower
Promotion
Organization
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Materials |
| Metal tub or ice bucket |
| Flowers: 4 gerbera daisies - 2 orange, 2 red |
| 4 stems white Fuji chrysanthemums |
| Two 4-packs of bottled soda pop |
| 2 or 3 of dad's favorite magazines |
| 1 small popcorn container |
| 1 plastic bag (to line popcorn container) |
| 1 brick floral foam |
| Several rubber bands |
| Newspaper (to fill the bottom of the container) |
| Popcorn to cover up the (mechanics)...need a better word than 'mechanics' |
| 1 new necktie |
| Floral clippers, knife and flower food/preservative |
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Directions |
| Step 1 - Soak the floral foam in water that's been treated with flower food/preservative. |
| Step 2 - Empty one 4-pack of soda and fill with water that has been treated with flower food/preservative. Now insert the gerbera daisies, one in each bottle, at varying heights. |
| Step 3 - Line the popcorn box with plastic bag. Cut floral foam to fit inside container. The foam should come up about 1-inch below the rim of the container. |
| Step 4 - Cut the Fuji mums to about 2-inches in length and insert them into the floral foam. |
Step 5 - Putting it all together:
Crumple newspaper and insert in the bottom of the metal tub/ice bucket (building up a lower layer of the bucket to prop up soda pop and popcorn container).
Insert the soda pop (both flower filled and soda filled).
Insert popcorn.
Rubber band dad's magazines and insert.
Cover the newspaper with popcorn.
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