Sunday, April 14, 2013

Cupcake Coloring Craft

Colorful cupcake crafts can work double-duty as sweet party treats as well as table decor. Use frosting to add a vibrant touch to the cupcakes and have kids decorate them with festive designs to match any special occasion. Supply children with a variety of edible decor items and encourage them to use their imaginations when enhancing the cupcakes. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Halloween Cupcake Crafts

If you're hosting a children's Halloween bash, create a batch of spooky cupcakes. Tint white frosting using food coloring, or buy pre-colored icing for convenience. Use orange and black frosting to create creepy jack-o'-lantern-inspired cupcakes. Green frosting will come in handy for Frankenstein-themed cupcakes, and you can decorate the tops of dark purple-frosted cupcakes with plastic spiders or pieces of candy corn.

Christmas Cupcake Crafts

Celebrate the holiday season by making Christmas cupcake crafts with your kids. Use a variety of small, edible treats to make festive baked goods. Transform the tops of white-frosted cupcakes into ornament-inspired crafts by sprinkling them with red and green decorator's sugar. Use green frosting and a pastry bag to pipe Christmas tree shapes onto the cupcakes as another option. Decorate the trees with small red cinnamon candies or shiny silver or gold dragees.

Flower Cupcake Crafts

Enhance a garden-themed birthday party or baby or wedding shower with flower-inspired cupcake crafts. Pipe frosting in vibrant colors such as pink, orange and yellow onto the mini cakes to create petaled flower designs. As another idea, top the cupcakes with white frosting and transform colorful gumdrops into flower patterns. Use small chocolate candies as the flowers' centers and create stems with green icing.

Critter Cupcake Crafts

Kids can create whimsical critter faces on the cupcakes using a rainbow of frosting colors. Top the cupcakes with red frosting and use brown or black icing to create dots for ladybug-inspired edible crafts. Use pink frosting for a pig and green for a frog theme. Kids can make facial features with small marshmallows, cookie bits, icing or licorice pieces.

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