Birthday Cupcake Place Card Holders
Personalize your party with pretty cupcake place card holders that double as favors for your guests. Fill the cups with treats for a sweet start to your party!
1. Make your card holders at least a week before your party! You’ll decorate one Crayola Air-Dry Clay cupcake for each guest. Use a recycled plastic container with a lid for each one. Yogurt containers make small cupcakes and cottage cheese containers make really big ones.
2. Put on a painting shirt. On a plastic placemat or similar washable surface, roll a big piece of clay into a flat rectangle. Roll it wider than your container is tall and long enough to fit all the way around. Keep the clay thick enough to hold its shape.
3. Roll your container across the slab, pushing just hard enough to make lines. Push the bottom of the container into another area of the slab. These are the sides and bottom of your cupcake. Cut out the shapes with a craft stick and mold them gently around your container. Wet your finger and dampen seams to help them stay together. Turn the container upside down to push the bottom in place. If you want, use a craft stick to press patterns into the sides. Gently remove clay from the container.
4. Use the same method to make the "icing" top. Make a slab, push the lid into the slab, remove and cut out with a craft stick. Add swirls and details, either cutting into the clay or building it up with small balls and rolls. Push the long edge of a craft stick across the top to make a groove to hold the name card. Check to be sure your lid is large enough to sit on top of your cupcake.
5. Place your cupcake top and bottom upside down on a paper plate to air-dry. Turn them over after a day or two so they can dry on the inside, too. Pieces may need 3 days to thoroughly dry.
6. Have fun using Crayola Squeezables™ 3-D Paint to decorate your cupcakes. Cover both the "icing" top and the "cake" with imaginative colors and designs. Air-dry the paint overnight.
7. With Crayola Scissors, cut out construction paper name cards for each guest. Write their names with Crayola Fine Line Markers. Put name cards in the grooves on top. Fill your cupcakes with favors, top with lids and name cards, and you’re ready to party!
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Squeezables® 3-D Paint—
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years. Not for use on skin.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Recycled Containers—Must be clean and safe. Do not use containers that contained bleach or other harmful chemicals (for example, household cleaners, dishwasher or laundry detergents). Do not use recycled metal cans that have sharp edges (for example, lids removed by household can openers).
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
Wood—By its nature, wood is rough and may contain splinters or sharp points
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