Friday, June 4, 2010

Solar System Cupcakes

My daughter was given an assignment to present the solar system with creativity and originality to her 3rd grade class. Here is what we came up with:

The sun with lots of yellow and orange rays.

There is the edge of Mercury, Venus and Earth. To make the green land masses on the Earth cupcake, I put green sprinkles in a plastic baggie, cut the tip off and then drew in the land with the sprinkles.
And then we have Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ad Neptune. We found all the pictures on nasa.gov. We "glued" the cupcakes and sun cake on the foam board in the morning with frosting to keep them from sliding off the board. My husband delivered it to the school in the afternoon and as far as I know, it traveled well.


This project killed two birds with one stone for me. It was my daughter's birthday, so after the presentation they ate the sun, planets and some other cupcakes that I sent along for the class.

This was actually really fun to work on together. :) But I'm so glad it's done! I am cupcaked out after the project I did over the weekend.

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17 comments:

  1. This is a fantastic idea! I kinda wish one of the kids had a science project due.
    ~ingrid

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  2. What a great idea! I will have to file this one away for sure. Just wish my kids could share homemade goodies at school. Everything here must be store bought. :(

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  3. very cute idea!!!!!! i bet she got an A!

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  4. such a great idea! totally love it.

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  5. That is so awesome, what a good and creative mom you are! I don't think I would have had the patience to pull this one off.

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  6. i am so copying this idea when my daughter has an assignment like this!

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  7. What a great idea! I hope my dtr gets this assignment and I remember this idea!

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  8. SOOOO creative! They look awesome! :)

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  9. That deserves an 'A' (and a taste). Very cute!

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  10. That is such a fun project! I bet the kids all loved it :)

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  11. They are so darn cute...you did a great job. I would have never thought of using cupcakes for the solar system.

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  12. You did a great job with them! I bet they had fun eating them afterwards.

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  13. What a fantastic assignment. I'm sure Eating them must have been the best part though :D

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  14. These are seriously adorable and such a cute idea for a science project!!

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  15. what a creative idea, I love it and want to eat it too, edible education is really the best way too learn! ;)

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