Ice Cream Flower Buckets

I made our Easter dessert!  Aren't they great!?!  I love the way they turned out!  They are filled with ice cream with crushed Oreos on top!

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Materials and Ingredients

Buckets found in the party supply section of the craft store

Straws

Shortcake circles, you can make your own and cut out using a cut out bottom of a solo cup

Ice Cream

Oreos, crushed using Magic Bullet or Blender

Green Pipe Cleaners

Coordinating Colors of Cardstock

Glue

Stapler (with staples)

Scissors

How I Did It
I prepared my dirt in my buckets...
1.  I set out my buckets.

2.  I took my shortcake circles and put them in the bottom of each bucket.

3.  I cut straws so that and stuck them in the shortcake so that the top of the straw would be just over the top of the bucket.

4.  I filled the buckets with ice cream 3/4 inch from the top.  This doesn't need to be pretty.  

5.  I crushed Oreos in my Magic bullet and spooned them on top of the ice cream to appear as dirt.

6.  I stored the buckets in the freezer until it was time to serve.

I made my flowers...

1.  I cut out flowers on cardstock with my Silhouette.

I used a cute 3D flower design. 

2.  I stapled pipe cleaner to the back of the flower.  I made sure the straight piece of he staple was overlapping the pipe cleaner.  I staple three times in different directions so that it could easily slip off.

3.  I punched out the same color circles with a circle punch and glued it to the center to cover the staples on the backside of the flowers.

4.  I punched out yellow circles with a circle punch and glued it to the center to cover the staples on the front side of the flowers.

 

 5.  I trimmed the stems to the height that I wanted and set a side until serving time.

 To Serve
1.  I placed each of the flowers into the straw of bucket.

Source:  http://theberry.com/2012/03/25/sunday-brunch-60-photos-22/