Cupcake Collage

Activities that are suitable for a wide age range, for boys as well as girls, and which leave the kids a large amount of creative freedom are always useful and go down well.  This definitely fits into that category - even boys like a chocolate cupcake.  After all who says all cupcakes have to be pink and sparkly?  They can be blue and green and banana flavoured with sugar footballs on top if you want!

For this activity you will need: A4 coloured paper (sugar paper is ideal) as a background; long, flat oval shapes cut out of different coloured paper (for a selection of 'plates'); pens or pencils (to colour in the cupcakes); lots of things to decorate the cupcakes and/or the background (for example: glitter glue, pompoms, sequins, foam shapes - all useful as sprinkles or toppings for the cakes).  

You will also need sheets of cupcake designs to colour in, which you can download from this link: CLICK HERE [The file is three pages: 2 pages of cupcake designs (6 per page) and a one-page instruction sheet if needed (which can be printed off and laminated for the kids to read/refer to while they are doing the activity).  If you are using this with anything more than 3 children, it would be worth printing off a couple of copies of the last two pages so that there is enough choice for everyone, and which also means they can do as many cupcakes as they want and not feel restricted to just one or two.]

Step 1: colour in and then cut out a cupcake or two:

Step 2: glue a plate (oval shape) to a piece of paper, and then the cupcake or cupcakes to the plate.

Step 3: decorate the cupcake using pompoms, sequins, glitter glue or whatever else you can find!

Here are some lovely examples all made by a group of girls aged 6-10 years old who were simply left with all the materials and the instructions and got on with it by themselves, masha'Allah tabarak Allah: