If you have a creative little girl who longs to tinker about in the kitchen and come up with pretty looking cupcakes like mommy, you must throw her a cupcake decorating party at some point! My cupcake baking and decorating weekends with my daughter and her friends had become so popular that we officially held a cupcake decorating party for her 7th birthday. Here are some details from the party that I hope, will inspire you for your own.
No Fuss Party
I am known to go the extra mile when it comes to planning a party. But at the time this party was planned, I was also busy taking care of a toddler and wanted an easy way out. A cupcake decorating party is perfect for the purpose. Since the cupcake decorating activity is the main highlight of the party, you do not need to fuss with too many decorations or games. I did get a lovely vintage pink ruffled apron made for the birthday girl.
Vintage pink apron with ruffles for the birthday girl
I love collecting lovely fabrics and these are from a ‘jelly roll’ (strips of 2.5″ x 42″) in pretty pink prints.
The birthday girl wore a pink top from Gini and Jony with cupcakes printed on it.
The Table is Where The Action Happens!
The kitchen dining table was our battle station. I chose a pastel theme with pink and blue to dress it up
The table was done in pink and blue with a centerpiece made using cupcake wrappers
In keeping with the theme, the centerpiece was also made using cupcake liners/wrappers
My first DIY project was this quick, easy and pretty centerpiece. I stuck a rod in a styrofoam ball and fixed it into a plastic pot using leftover thermocoal packaging. Then I used pearl-headed pins to fix cupcake wrappers like flowers all around till the styrofoam was covered completely.
Cupcake wrapper craft – This centerpiece will look good any time of the year!
Sprinkles and cupcake decorations were set out on the table
Enticing the guests as soon as they walked in, were these shakers filled with sprinkles, jimmies and decorations for the cupcakes.
I brought out all my seasonal cupcake decorations
These vermicelli shaped sprinkles are called ‘jimmies’.
I also used cupcake wrappers to create this easy decoration on a cardboard cutout.
And the fun begins…
Colorful aprons for all the little guests!
The little guests were handed out aprons that their moms helped them out on. This party did not involve baking (I will save that for when they are older) and I had baked and cooled cupcakes ready for decorating. And the kids could not wait to get started.
I first demonstrated a couple of easy cupcake decorating ideas to get their creative juices flowing. The first one was a clown face that all the kids loved making.
A clown face cupcake is very easy for the kids to make
Then the kids started coming up with ideas and their creativity will blow your mind!
That’s a ‘Black’ forest with trees. Icing and sprinkles on tips of toothpicks was a brilliant idea.
Our youngest guest made a lovely colorful creation!
Can you guess what this is? It’s a Cricket pitch! The white pitch and the red stumps are surrounded by green grass. Our kids start cricket really young, don’t they?!
And our proudly made tricolor flag đŸ™‚
A flower made using Oreo cookie as the center
Kids loved making use of my ‘Valentine’s Day’ and ‘Casino’ themed sprinkles a lot!
To say that we had a colorful table by the end of it would be an understatement!
A ‘Cupcake’ Cake
It doesn’t matter how many cupcakes you have, you have to have Cake on your birthday – said the birthday girl! In vain did I try to explain to her that cupcakes are also cakes. My original plans of having a ‘cupcake tower’ were voted out, so we had a cake that fitted into the theme – a cake shaped like a Giant Cupcake.
We had plenty of cake leftovers but did not mind since the kids enjoyed it for a week. The cupcakes, Cheese-Cherry-Pineapple starters, cotton candy and Pav-Bhaji kept them filled for the evening.
Cupcake Themed Return Gifts
The party favors for the evening were packaged in cupcake themed bags and boxes which was my 3rd DIY project.
Cupcake themed paper bags
I made these bags out of empty cereal boxes. I will post a detailed DIY shortly.
Gift toppers made using cupcake wrappers
The girls received cupcake shaped pendant necklaces that come packaged in beautiful cupcake shaped boxes.
The girls received cupcake necklaces. I ordered them from Amazon.com at that time, but they are available now in India by a brand called Tanya’s Jewelry. The boy received different toys according to their ages but those were not cupcake themed – only their wrapping was.
Since then, there have been constant demands for more cupcake parties. The girls are older now and want baking to be included now. Perhaps, I will plan another fun during the summer vacations …
My almost 7-year-old has asked for a similar type of party for her next birthday. These are some adorable ideas, and it looks like everyone had a great time! Thanks so much for sharing your party!
What a fun cupcake party!! Love all the details. Pinning to my kids party board. Thanks for sharing at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Hope to see you again soon!
Love to follow you…soo many amazing tips…thanks dear for all d info