Teacup Cupcakes for our Teddy Bear Picnic

Last week the kids had a theme day. We have a several of them every month. Last week's theme day was "Teddy bear Picnic". All of the kids brought in their teddy bears, and we ate lunch outside and called it a picnic. The kids had a blast, as did the adults!!

For this special occasion I decided to bake some special treats. I made teacup cupcakes. Basically I took ice cream cones and cut the bottom off, and then i used melted chocolate and "glued" them to a digestive cookie. I thin cut some sour peach rings in half and glued them to the side of the cones. I baked zebra cupcakes (chocolate and vanilla all in one cupcake) and the crumbled the bottom part of the cupcakes into the cone and used icing to stick the top of the cupcake to the top of the cone. I put them in the fridge over night and them brought them to work the next day to let the kids decorate.

We used pink strawberry frosting and lots of sprinkles. The finishing touch was lots and lots of gummy bears. Needless to say the kids snacked more on the candy, than use it to decorate. Regardless of the gummy bears being in their tummy or on the cupcake, the kids had a blast and I did too!!

Try out my "teacup cupcakes" and let me know how yours turned out! They are super simple and super fun. Happy baking!! :)

Sandpaper T-shirt Transfers

Father's day is always the one day out of the year that I become completely stumped on what to make for a gift from the children at work. This year I searched through pinterest trying to find something unique and fun for the kids to create. After searching for quite a while I found one idea in particular that I thought would be really cool. The pin was "Sandpaper T-Shit Transfer".

We started off with plain white cotton t-shirts, some regular sandpaper and crayons... Lots and lots of crayons!! First I cut the sandpaper into smaller rectangles. Then the children drew their pictures on the sandpaper, and if they wanted I wrote something cute along side it like "World's best dad
 or "Daddy of the year". Writing the phrases was a bit of a trial and error situation. My boss had pointed out after several of the papers had been written on, that the letters should be written backwards. So some of the kids had to re-do their pictures and I rewrote the phrases. It turns out writing and spelling backwards it a little bit of a challenge.

After all of the pictures were complete I took a piece of cardboard, placed it inside the t-shirt, and positioned the sandpaper on the back of the shirt. I then took an iron and laid it on top of the sandpaper moving it back and forth for a few minutes.After a minute or two I took the iron off and let the sandpaper cool. Once cool I peeled the sandpaper back very slowly.

For the most part the t-shirts turned out pretty good, but there were a few that the kids didn't press hard enough with the crayons, and it turned out looking faded. In the end all of the dads loved their unique custom made t-shirts, which in turn made me one very happy E.C.E.

If I were to rate this pin I would give it a 4 out of 5, solely because the instructions didn't mention that putting more pressure when colouring would give better results. Here are a few pictures of the before and after!! Give it a try and let me know how your sandpaper transfers turned out. Let me know if you enjoyed creating :)