Presto Dots Cupcake
Make your party even more special with this easy-to-do cupcake activity! You and your guests can decorate your very own party favors and bring home those fun party memories!
1. Cover a Presto Dots armature ball, or a foam ball, with a thin layer of Model Magic® by pushing and spreading the modeling compound with your fingers. Model Magic that is fresh from the pack will stick to itself. Dried pieces can be glued together.
2. Firmly place the covered ball in the Presto Dots cupcake wrapper, or make your own wrapper from cardboard or oak tag. To make your own wrapper, cut a strip of paper wide enough to cover the bottom half of the ball, and long enough to wrap around it. Make small folds on alternating sides of the paper to create an accordion fold. Wrap around the ball, secure with glue. Now you have the structure of your cupcake!
3. Flatten a small amount of Model Magic to be about as thick as your fingers. Be sure to tightly cover the remaining Model Magic in the container to prevent it from drying.
4. Press one of the Presto Dots tools firmly into the flattened Model Magic. Lift the tool, and press gently onto your cupcake. The Model Magic inside the tool will stick to the cupcake and form a dot! Repeat until the cupcake is completely covered with dots. Be creative! Use different colors, shapes, and patterns to decorate your cupcake. You can even swirl together different colors or blend them completely to make new colors! (*Note: Some Presto Dots packs have multiple tools and accessories for a variety of shapes and impressions.)
5. Use leftover Model Magic to create flowers, letters, candles, and other details to make your cupcake one of a kind!
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.
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.
Food-Related Crafts—Art materials should not be used on food, if these foods are intended to be eaten. Art materials should not be used to make or decorate containers intended to hold edible food if the food would be in contact with the art material.
Modeling Tools—Use the least dangerous point or edge sufficient to do the job. For example, craft sticks, plastic knives and forks, and cookie cutters can cut or carve modeling materials.
Recycled Cardboard Tubes—Use paper towel tubes, gift-wrap tubes, or long cardboard tubes that can be cut to any length. Health professionals caution against using recycled toilet paper tubes for arts & crafts projects because of the potential fecal contamination.
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).
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