One large pineapple, 2 pounds of strawberries, 1 cantaloupe, 50 grapes and a handful of parsley is all you need to get started.
Using a cookie cutter, press each slice of pineapple and cut out a flower of pineapple.
Using a melon baller, scoop out one ball of cantaloupe for every 2 pineapple flowers. Cut the cantaloupe ball in half and lay the flat side of one half against one pineapple flower.
Take each pineapple flower and stick a bamboo skewer through the center. Make sure your skewer pokes through the pineapple about 1/2 inch. Now stick that part of the skewer onto a cantaloupe ball, but don't let the skewer stick out the other end of the cantaloupe ball. Do this for each pineapple flower.

Wash your strawberries (you can remove the strawberry leaves if you want). Then take each one and stick a bamboo skewer into the top of it, but don't let the skewer poke out the other side.
Take a bamboo skewer and stick it through about 6-7 grapes. When you stick one grape on, slide it down to make room for the next one. Repeat this until your last grape. Make sure that the skewer doesn't stick out of the one on top). Then slide each grape up the skewer until they touch the grape just above it.
Now you should have all of your fruit on skewers. Place each skewer into foam or playdough at various angles. You will want to create a spherical shape to the bouquet, so place the outermost skewers on a large angle and make them shorter than the center skewers. The key to this step is to adjust your skewer lengths. Make sure you have plenty of fruit. Having too few fruit skewers makes your fruit bouquet look bare and skimpy.



























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(photo courtesy of Maggie Sottero)