make sure you have something to use! We used Styrofoam under it, and we had sticks left over from an edible arrangement that we saved.
Clean and Cut the fruit! we used cookie cutters, for real.
Clean your fruit again, and set them out do dry!
start making some of the bigger pieces
Slowly it starts to dwindle away!
build from the bottom and sides, so the middle is sturdy when you stick it up. We ended up using wooden bamboo sticks for the really big pieces so they were sturdy!
Just add fruit. As you start filling out with the melon, make some sort of pattern, it makes it pretty :)
It stored for about a day, due to the lack of fruit being in season...
it was feb after all...
★★★★★/5 ★'s,
Because it's a ball.
For real!
We bought a big one like this for my grandparents 50th anniversary, and it cost over 150 dollars (It would have been more to ship it as well. but we picked it up and took it to them! ) And we did this in feburary, when fruit is pretty much as expensive as it will be all year, and it only cost us fifty dollars or so.
for this arrangement we used;
One cantlope,
one green melon,
one box of strawberries,
a bag of grapes,
and the last pineapple in town. (Seriously. We checked three stores, and the one we bought was the last one at the third store. )
one baby watermelon.
PLUS we had enough to make a small fruit tray as well :)
