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Egg box birthday cake


Both the girls have got birthdays on their brains. There's been quite a few parties already this year and we're about to hit birthday season in our family. Our eldest turns 5 next week, and then we've got a family member's birthday every month up until June. Our eldest is of course beside herself with excitement now in the run up to her party. But I'd say it's the toddler who's the most obsessed (she's also having a difficult time understanding why so many friends & both her siblings have their birthdays now - May is a long way away for a 2 year old). 

Lately she's been using empty egg cartons and turning them into birthday cakes by sticking pens into them like the picture above. The problem is that the pens usually start falling through the holes whenever she walks around with them so she tends to get angry and abandon the cake (often after ripping it to shreds). Well this morning I was feeling surprisingly pro-active (I can rarely be bothered with crafts just because of the inevitable carnage from the kids) and realised we could turn the lid upsidedown and use it as a tray under her "cake" so the pens don't fall out. 


Obviously it's literally just a tray that falls off without help, so I got the PVA glue and stapler out and joined the two halves together. Once I'd done that I realised we had the recipe for a super easy and lazy art project. With so many young children in the house I have a hard time making things with them that takes a lot of supervision or help from me so I tend to get paints/slimes/play doh out for them to do with as they please without much of an actual aim which is why I'm rather pleased with the ad hoc art project this morning.

Above are some of the things we used so you'll need:

  • Egg carton (size doesn't matter)
  • PVA glue
  • Paints
  • Flat lolly sticks (pipe cleaners would work a treat too - originally I'd just planned on using broken pens so you can literally use anything you like as the candles)
  • Extras: glitter, pom poms, crêpe paper, feathers

    • I just set the girls up with the paints and let them loose. If it were me doing it I would've tried to make it look more like an actual cake, but they are both super proud of their rainbow cakes and will no doubt be having a party with plenty of pretend candle blowing once they've dried.


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