Hello dear friends!
A couple of weeks back we celebrated Cooper’s first birthday party! I KNOW! One already? Really??
For those of you who have followed my journey since the start when this blog was called Mummy Goes Mad then you know my story all too well of my surprise pregnancy with Cooper when Locky was only 6 months old and everything I went through with my pregnancy and our relocation to Belgium… Worst EVER!
Now that things have settled, we are used to living here, Cooper is over all of his milk allergy and reflux issues and so on, I felt it was necessary to celebrate his birthday in a BIG WAY! I can’t help it. By nature I’m over the top and have a larger than life personality (I have settled a little with age) and I always look for any excuse to spilt the crap out of my kids. So I got working and threw my baby an awesome Woodlands First Birthday Party! Yay.
More on the party in future posts but today I’m showing you one of the many crafts I made to bring Cooper’s Woodlands Party to life.
I knew the moment I fell pregnant with Locky (my first) I wanted to make my kids cakes. Unfortunately I couldn’t make his first birthday cake because I was fairly pregnant with Cooper but I did make his second birthday cake. So I was so happy that nothing got in the way of me making Cooper’s first cake. I’m no professional, far from it but it’s made with so much love which is the most important thing when it comes to us mummy amateur cake makers.
I wanted to make something a little different and definitely representing the Woodlands theme. I wanted some little creatures but then when I was scrolling through Craftgawker (feel free to follow me 😉 ) I came across this fabulous idea by Nikki at Tikkido.com and had to make my own version of it. The cake topper’s are not an original idea, I’m not that clever! Haha. But I did come up with everything else on my own.
These trees are so simple to make and really a genius idea for any forest themed cake! They are also super quick to make which saves you so much time if you really want to make your cake look full and lush on the top. I really didn’t want to make lots of trees out of fondant because fondant is difficult to work with as fas as I’m concerned. I’m happy to make a few characters but not a whole forest out of the stuff!
What you’ll need for these Woodlands Forest Cake Toppers
Materials
Xacto Knife
Crafters cutting board
Thick card stock- I chose scrap booking paper and you can find lots of different colours, patterns and designs!
Barbecue skewers – you can use thin sticks from your backyard but I chose not to do this for sanitary reasons as the cake was to be eaten
Hot Glue
Craft Glue
Paint Brush
Green moss powder- not sure of another name for it
Begin by drawing your tree shapes on your paper in assorted sizes. Don’t worry if they’re not perfect. To me they where not intended to be perfect but good enough to represent pine trees.
Using your Xacto knife cut along the lines of your trees. As you can see with this tree I did not do this… haha. It still tend out good though and it was my only one that turned out a little horrible. My reason; I had Locky trying to pull the paper while I cut and tried taking a photo of it all… Toddlers are not easy I tell you!
Once you have finished cutting all of your trees, fold them all down the middle.
Cut your skewers to the length you want them on the cake and hot glue a skewer down the middle of each of your trees. Once again the toddler was around me so the way I hot glued the skewer to this tree was rough. Not usually my quality of work but what can one do when they have a two year old trying to ‘help’?
To make your trees look like they have moss on them just brush on your craft glue with a paint brush all over one of your trees. Sprinkle the green moss powder all over the tree to cover the entire surface. Let dry and then hot glue your skewer on to your tree.
Now all you have to do is decorate your cake!
I love when 5 minute crafts like this one make a huge impact. The end result was very cute and all of our guests loved how great Woodlands Forest Cake Toppers turned out.
Do you make your kids cakes? What themed have you made and how did you decorate them?
You can view the entire Woodlands Birthday Party here:
If you love moss crafts, then you will love this Moss Covered Number craft
Or the Barnyard Birthday Party I created for my other son’s birthday!
You can get the Butter Milk Cake Recipe for the Farm Animal Cake I Made here also, trust me it is delicious!!
Those little animals are so cute! And I love the paper trees! The patterns and colors are gorgeous, and I can’t wait to see the rest of what you did for his party!
Thanks so much Chelsea! I made them out of fondant. Though my racoon was a bit rough looking… was too tired to make a better one. Haha. How simple and kinda genius is the paper tree idea. I won’t claim it as my own, but I was very happy with the end result! I look forward to sharing some more of the party and crafts I did for it soon 🙂 x
These trees are so colorful and EASY, too! I love it when I have time to do my kids cakes for their birthdays… you can’t get so creative with it!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
They where SO easy Carrie! I made them and took these photos the morning of the party. It took me a while 10 minutes and that’s with a toddler trying to climb the table and stealing cant supplied from the table also. Haha.
This is absolutely wonderful! I’m visiting from Thursday Favorite Things.
Thanks
Angie
Hi Angie. Thanks for popping by and thank you for your lovely compliment! 🙂
How cute! I’ve always loved the Woodlands theme. You’re very crafty and clever! There wasn’t a theme as such, but I did get a bit creative with cupcake decorating for my sons Birthday Party last month! 🙂
Woodlands theme is great because it’s unisex and perfect for little munchkins! 🙂 Just went over to your post to see the cupcakes and all the lovely food you created! Looks yummy 🙂 Well done!
These are so cute! My littlest guy is turning 1 next month so I’ll have to keep these in mind. Found you over at the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop by the way!
Hi Erin. Happy Birthday to your little man for next month! How wonderful.
Oh my goodness!! I love this so much more than I can express. (Also, I haven’t been to your blog before so reading about your surprise pregnancy…woah. Now I need to go search for a post about that here!) I am looking at your other birthday cake too, so cute. Pinning now for future reference…my daughter is 4 months but I too would like to make her cakes (likely pinterest inspired, I like you cannot come up with these crazy things on my own).
Hi Sam! Thanks for visiting and welcome! 🙂 Yes, surprise pregnancies with both my boys. Haha. 4 months! What a precious age!! 🙂 Yes, pin lots so you can have lots of fun idea when it comes time to plan the party 🙂 Glad you like the cake toppers 🙂
Cute little cake toppers!
Thanks Hil! 🙂
These are absolutely adorable!
Thank you so much Alison 🙂
They are SO good. Nice job. The cake looks beautiful!
Thank you so much Melissa! 🙂 x
Those tree toppers are adorable!!!! What a great, great idea! I bet you could even put them on cupcakes if they were scaled down a bit. Stealing this idea! Thank you!
Thanks Gigi. They would look adorable on cupcakes! I was thinking of doing something like this for Christmas also. Steal away. haha. xx
That is adorable!! I want it on my birthday cake! 🙂 Thank you for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty
Thank you Jamie. They are cute little toppers I must admit 😉
It’s absolutely perfect!! I’m so tickled that I inspired you in some small way. Love how you took the idea and totally made it your own! That moss covered #1 candle is AMAZING, too!
Hi Nikki! Thanks for popping over and glad you like it! I saw it on craftgawker one evening as I was submitting some work and LOVED it so much I knew it was what I needed to make for my son’s cake!! Yes, I love the candle also! Goes with the Faux Moss Garland I made for his birthday also 🙂 x
This is seriously such a cute idea! Pinning!
Super cute and easy idea to jazzy up a cake. Will keep this in mind for future parties.
Thanks Erlene! It’s so simple to make!
oh my gosh this is so stinking cute
Haha, thanks Angelina 🙂