Thursday, September 22, 2011

School Supply Birthday Cake

Teachers have birthdays too! In order to do something special for J's 3rd grade teacher on her birthday, we decided to make her a cake...out of school supplies.

Based on a
tutorial I found on The Butlers blog I headed out to Walmart who is currently clearancing a lot of school supplies in order to fit in their Halloween products.  Armed with the following supplies, I began construction on the gift of the year! 

Rubberbands of all sizes
1 roll paper towels
4 composition notebooks
7 boxes of crayons
4 packs of pens
1 pack of mechanical pencils
3 bottles Hand Sanitizer
4 post it notes
10 glue sticks
Hat box lid
Ribbon
Tape
&
Teacher Notecard by Janna Wilson 


Cover hat box with ribbon.  This is bottom of cake.  You could also use a cake round base, covered with pretty paper...or cut a circle out of cardboard. 

Attach notebooks to paper towel roll to create your center base. Secure with rubber bands. 

Add items, securing with rubber bands as needed. 


I used an empty paper towel roll to form the glue stick circle...then I stuffed it into the center of the paper towel roll to hold to the top of my cake.  Again...secure with rubber bands. 


Add Ribbon to cover up your rubber bands. 

Add a card...and other embellishments.  I would have loved to add some flowers but J was against that.   It still had to look like it came from a boy. 


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