Hedgehog made of fruits can become a real decoration of the festive table, replacing the standard fruit slices. For children's holidays, this option for serving fruit fully replaces dessert. "Fruit animal" can be a wonderful craft for kindergarten or school, a pleasant surprise for your loved one. There are a lot of options for using a hedgehog, you just have to come up with a reason. The principle of making a fruit composition is very simple and will take a minimum of time and effort.
Which fruits are suitable for crafts
In the process of making a fruit composition in the form of a hedgehog, you can use almost any fruit. To maintain the quality of crafts for a long time, you should follow a few recommendations:
- Use unripe fruit that starts to darken or rot almost immediately.
- Include in the composition those fruits that do not release a lot of juice and will not wither and lose volume when pierced.
- It is advisable to use bright, fresh, uniform-sized fruits and berries that will keep freshness for a long time.
All things considerednuances when choosing a material, then a hedgehog made of fruits will turn out beautiful, appetizing and attractive. "Sculpture" can remain the main exposition of the table for a long time. It is worth considering not only aesthetic aspects, but also practical ones, so that individual needles can be removed without harm to the whole creation.
A set of tools and materials for the formation of crafts
The composition, which is a hedgehog made of fruit, can be a pompous structure or a very small figure. In any case, the following materials will be needed for the formation:
- small toothpicks or wooden skewers;
- knife for peeling and trimming fruit;
- cloves-type spices to shape the details.
Usually, to create the simplest hedgehog, they use: pears, apples, grapes, olives, black olives, gooseberries, melons, cherry plums. In more complex designs, all of the above options can be used. As a rule, the choice is made according to the seasonal harvest and the pomp of the event for which the fruit beast is prepared.
Methods of forming the basis of the composition
To make the product stable, able to fit a maximum of elements and not fall, you should use a fruit with a solid base. In terms of shape and texture, a pear is suitable for the simplest version of a hedgehog. It can be prepared as follows:
- First you need to wash the pear and remove the hard tail. This should be done carefully so as not to break the tip of the fruit.
- Peel the skin off the pear. For this you canuse knife. Remove the skin evenly with a vegetable peeler.
- To make the base stable, you need to cut off one side. It is enough to remove 1/5 of the pear. The cut must be exactly parallel to the middle of the fruit.
- On the sharp end of the fruit you need to put on an olive, and make eyes out of the cloves. This is how the muzzle is formed.
A hedgehog is made from vegetables and fruits, so boiled potatoes can be the basis for a snack option. But when using such a vegetable, you need to think about how to make an elongated part that will become the muzzle of the animal.
Option for stringing fruit on the base
Standard fruit crafts "Hedgehog", in which the pear became the basis, then it is made from grapes. It is advisable to use raisins, ladies' fingers or similar varieties. The main thing is that the berries do not contain seeds, and the skin is elastic and dense.
Next, "thorns" are formed:
- Prepare toothpicks, do not use menthol products.
- String a grape on each of them. The toothpick should go through the center of the grape, going along the base.
- Additionally, you can fix a cube of hard cheese. Then it is better to use two small berries, and fix the cheese between them.
- Insert a toothpick with the pointed end into the pear. Do this with each prepared element.
Shape as many of these toothpicks until thealmost the entire surface of the base. Only the toe of the pear remains, which will later be designed in the form of a muzzle. If we talk about the vegetable version, then instead of grapes, you can use olives. Sometimes oblong triangles are cut out of hard cheese, which are strung on toothpicks and inserted into the base.
Adding a unique composition
To make the fruit hedgehog more attractive, it is worth considering additional decoration. The choice will depend on how the composition will be used further. Hedgehog decoration options:
- If the fruit composition will be used to decorate the table and act as slices, then small flowers can be placed on impromptu needles. It is permissible to fix several berries or grapes of a different color on top of the skewers.
- If the craft is purely decorative, then a satin ribbon can become a decoration, which will serve as a collar. From the berries that are strung on a thread, you can make a necklace.
- Vegetable hedgehog can be decorated so that it resembles a kind of cold cuts. Place slices of ham or sausage between the thorns.
If the craft is of impressive size, and large skewers are used instead of toothpicks, then there is no need to additionally decorate the composition. On wooden elements, you can place cheese cubes, multi-colored grapes, olives, black olives, apple slices. There are a lot of options for bright combinations.
Entourage for crafts
Learning how to make a hedgehog out of fruits, andto make a craft, you can take care of the surroundings. Be sure to prepare a suitable plate. It is advisable to choose a white color, but at the expense of the form, the more unusual it is, the better.
The fruit hedgehog is placed in the center of the selected plate. Around the central figure, it is worth placing other fruits or berries, sliced fruits. In the case of a vegetable option, you should put cold cuts on a plate.
You can arrange hedgehogs on separate pedestals, which can be formed from an inverted disposable cup. It is permissible to lay animals on bright napkins. You can put a bright napkin on a plate, and place a hedgehog on top. It all depends on the imagination and preferences of the creator.
