Materials:

• Metal tub or ice bucket
• Flowers: 4 gerbera daisies - 2 orange, 2 red
• 4 stems white Fuji chrysanthemums
• Two 4-packs of bottled soda pop
• 2 or 3 of dad's favorite magazines
• 1 small popcorn container
• 1 plastic bag (to line popcorn container)
• 1 brick floral foam
• Several rubber bands
• Newspaper (to fill the bottom of the container)
• Popcorn to cover up the (mechanics)...need a better word than 'mechanics'
• 1 new necktie
• Floral clippers, knife and flower food/preservative

Step 2 - Empty one 4-pack of soda and fill with water that has been treated with flower food/preservative. Now insert the gerbera daisies, one in each bottle, at varying heights.

Step 3 - Line the popcorn box with plastic bag. Cut floral foam to fit inside container. The foam should come up about 1-inch below the rim of the container.

Step 5 - Putting it all together:

• Crumple newspaper and insert in the bottom of the metal tub/ice bucket (building up a lower layer of the bucket to prop up soda pop and popcorn container).
• Insert the soda pop (both flower filled and soda filled).
• Insert popcorn.
• Rubber band dad's magazines and insert.
• Cover the newspaper with popcorn.