Craft a Paper Candy Posy for Your Valentine

         Make a variety of chocolate candy posies with these pretty little paper valentine blooms. All you need is:

• white glue
• a variety of decorative papers
• chocolate candy kisses and chocolate candy hearts
• green markers and green construction paper for the leaves
• scissors 
• patterns for cutting and tracing

      Cut these patterns, and trace around them onto red, pink, and white papers. Then paste them together in layers to make the blooms. Glue the blossoms to wooden dowels. Use the green markers to color the dowels and then cut and paste on green paper leaves.

These little paper flowers with chocolate candy kisses were made from a variety of cut paper designs. Layer one on top
of the other and paste them together!

Posy patterns for the project; click on the image to
download the largest version.

The chocolates were pasted to the paper hearts. The stems are made separately from corrugated cardboard hearts and
wooden dowels that were glued inside of the ditches of the corrugated shapes. I can slip these Valentines on and off
of the stems if I choose, instead of giving away the entire floral stem.

Far left, chocolate hearts pasted on Valentines and mounted on 'stems.' Middle, stems for posies before these were painted
 and the leafs applied. Right, some of the chocolate hearts can be removed from their stems, some of them can be taken
 along with the stems.

Finished candy kiss flowers with decorative stems.

More Paper Posy Valentines:

• Valentine Book Page Tutorial
• A paper spiral rose flower tutorial
• Baking Cup Flower Valentines
• cut a newsprint rose with ruffled edging
• Origami rose and here is a visual diagram of this same rose pattern
• Origami Magic Rose Cube by Valerie Vann (video tutorial) 
• Rose designed by Jo Nakashima 
• Craft chocolate candy kiss rose and carnation bouquets

More Floral Valentines Project Ideas:

• Valentines Day Art Project from Deep Space Sparkle
• Valentine's Day Celery Flower Stamp Craft