For this fun activity, the children started off by mixing up their own cupcake puffy paint icing…
To make their own puffy paint icing, the children mixed together shave cream and glue. I would say to make our puffy paint icing, we added 1 part glue to  4 parts shave cream but honestly – we just threw in shave cream and added glue straight from the bottle. Then we added some food color and mixed it all together…
It really did look like icing so I reminded the children that we can’t eat it! I had them smell it and the children didn’t even try to eat it but just in case, I threw out the extra reminders. Once the children mixed up their puffy paint icing they put their bowls in the center of the table so we could share all the colors…
Next the children fan-folded their paper cupcake holders so they would have lines like real cup cake holders. Then they glued their cupcakes toppers and folded cupcake holders on a large sheet of paper…
Now it was time to add our puffy paint icing. I showed the children how to drop the icing on the cupcakes so it would set up a bit and dry puffy.
some of the children preferred to mix the colors and smear the icing on – either way, it still has a puffy feel when it is all done. And some of the children didn’t quite get the idea that the icing should go on the cupcake, not the holder 🙂
For snack, we got to ice real cupcakes too! And this icing we could eat!
Links to Grow On…
Check out the puffy paint ice cream too!
Cupcake Ice Cream Cone from Dukes and Duchesses
Delicious Plaster of Paris cupcakes from Casa Maria’s Creative Learning Zone
Felt Play Food Cupcakes from GummyLump
Threading Cupcake Holders from House of Baby Piranha
Framed Cupcake Felt Board from Miranda Made