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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Back To School

While my son has been in school going on 3 weeks now, the next county over started this week.  We attend church in that county, so most of J's friends started school this week.  To kick off the school year, they got to have a Back to School party during Wednesday night Bible Study last night. 

I had to really step out there to try my hand at decorated cupcakes.  And of course I just had to bring something school related!  I decided on Apple Cup Cakes after seeing several easy ideas online. 

I started with a white cake mix, doctored it up a bit with my secret ingredient.  Classic buttercream icing does not take the red food coloring I poured in it, then poured some more.  We ended up with a rather pinkish color, but I sprinkled red sugar on top.  I used Tootsie Rolls for stems, and cut leaves out of laffy taffy that I'd squished and rolled out slightly.  Gummy worms (or in our case Sour Gummy worms) made it a huge hit with the kiddos!

I used a free printable from It IS What It Is blog to make these Smarty Pants favors. 

I fought this little rascal off the cupcake I was attempting to take a picture of...

Hope your Back to School week is a good one!


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