Kiss Flower - Make a folded rose with Hershey Kiss wrappers

I show how to make quick little roses out of Hershey Kiss wrappers. They only takes a minute to learn, and then about a minute to make. But if you make one for her, in front of her, it will leave a lasting impression.



I've been making these for my wife for years. I made the first one before we were married, if I recall correctly.

Now that I'm publishing this, I'm looking around to make sure that it hasn't already been done, wouldn't want to be unwittingly derivative after all. I see this guy; he's been making origami roses for his girl. Way classier, way more work. Another dude more recently demonstrates an origami rose...  Again, a significant step-up. I bet these guy's wives loves them more.

So maybe this idea, kiss-flower, is for more early in the relationship; kinda spontaneous; while you're still trying to impress but, y'know,... casual like. Save the origami roses for when you know it's real...

Step 1 Unwrap the Kisses carefully

In fact the hardest part of the whole project is unwrapping the Kisses. It helps for later on if we can unwrap the foil and keep it relatively intact.  However the Kiss wrapper is kind of delicate, and the green wrappers are way less substantial than the red ones. The silver ones appear to be the toughest.

The other issue here is that apparently you can only get green Kisses around Christmas time. Valentine's day Kisses are red, but by the time Valentine's day actually rolls around the stores are all gearing up for Easter. So just before Valentines day, pastels abound, but it's harder to spontaneously produce a red rose with appropriately colored green stem without first hoarding a few green Kisses.

So anyway, when I first did this I used these red and green Kisses left over from Christmas. I saved a few of each so I could take pictures of the process. Life intervenes, and I don't get around to taking pictures until a year later. S'OK, I'm not planning on eating the Kisses, just taking their picture.

You know of course that I ate 'em. Didn't matter that they were like 15 months old. So now I've got that association going for me, stale chocolate, wife, love. Could be worse. Could be carrots.

Comments

[fantasy1000]

Tutorial was very easy to follow.  The roses and the sentiment behind them made me smile and I hope to make them for my little grand daughters.  I can imagine their eyes lighting up.  Thanks!

[AngryRedhead]

These are absolutely precious!