Every time I bought fruit baskets and spent money on them, I wondered if I couldn’t do these things all by myself? At last, I learnt how to make fruit baskets – gift of nature and health. If fruit baskets are prepared in the right way they can make wonderful gifts for teachers and parties. Here are a few tips which you will find very useful, mainly used in the making of a fruit basket.

Here are some of the things you will need:

• Fruits
• Wicker basket
• Some shredded paper
• Gift wrapping plastic or heat  sealable plastic
• Scissors
• Ribbons
• Flowers

Here are the basic steps of making fruit baskets – hope you will find them very useful.

• You need to have fruits which are very colorful and free from any kind of marks or blemishes.

• If you wish you can buy some traditional fruits like bananas, apples and even oranges. You can add some exotic touch to these fruits by adding some non traditional fruits like kiwi and mango also.  Remember that the fruits need to be very bright and colorful.

• You need to fill a wicker basket or any container with the help of a colored shredded paper.

• You can arrange all the fruits on the top of a basket. Fruits can be arranged in different styles – use your own creativity in arranging the fruits in the basket.

• You need to arrange the big slices of fruits on the top of the basket and put small fruit pieces around it.

• You need to use a heat sealable gift wrapper around the fruit basket to keep the fruit basket protected. For this purpose, you can use different gift wrapping materials made of plastic and different colors as well as designs.

• You will find gift wrappers of many different designs and colors. You can use one type of wrapper or two different types of wrappers to make your gift look beautiful.

• You need to be sure that the gift wrapping plastic you are using is approved by the authorities can be used for wrapping food products.

• You should cut this gift wrapping plastic at least three times bigger than the size of plastic you need for your basket.

• Once you are done with the cutting of wrapping paper, you need to place the basket just in the middle of the wrapping paper and then slowly bring up its different sides.

• You have to secure the gift wrapping paper and use some hot air from any blow dryer, so that the bag can be sealed.

• You are almost done now. You will need to embellish the gift basket with different types of flowers, ribbons and bows – you can put in anything extra so that the gift basket looks decorated.

Fruit basket can truly reflect your creative side and invite camaraderie in the party!

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