Monday, March 1, 2010

Homemade Cupcake Toppers

For his recent birthday celebration at school, my son wanted Mario cupcakes (as in Super Mario Bros.). I searched the internet for some of those plastic character rings that usually top store-bought kid cupcakes, so I could simply add them to the top of the cupcakes I planned to pick up at Sam's. But I couldn't find any with a Mario theme. In fact the only Mario themed cupcake toppers I could find anywhere were on Etsy.com and homemade by a mom with a printer and some craft punches.

So, I got to thinking, I could save my $20 and make some myself.

I searched the Internet for free, printable Mario images. When I found one I liked I copied it and printed a bunch on one page of cardstock paper. Then I just cut them out and glued them onto some yellow construction paper I'd cut into rectangles with some craft scissors. Then I taped the rectangles onto some lollipop sticks I already had.

Pretty easy, free since I used all materials I already had, good enough for 1st graders, and most important -- my boy was happy!! All around a successful craft!


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9 comments:

  1. Wow, they turned out really cute!. You did a very good job! I bet your son was very happy with them. Way to go Mom!

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  2. Great Job Mom!!! That was both very creative AND frugal! I'll have to remember this when my kids get older! Thank you for sharing!

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  3. Neat idea! I love the matching blue frosting, too.

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  4. what a great job you did very cool

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  5. They are very cute! And very creative!

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  6. GOOD JOB..they are quite cute. Blue icing was the prefect touch too...Bet your son was thrilled.

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  7. That is pretty smart! For her and for you to figure out how to do it yourself. Very nice!!

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  8. Way to go! Mommy and Mario to the rescue!

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