“Back to School Cake“

I started by tracing around one of the wreaths on a piece of thick art paper, to then cut out for a “floor” for the cake.

Then, I glued the Styrofoam wreaths together, with the cut circle between.

Next, I put a large rubber bands around (1) of the Styrofoam pieces.  This will be used to hold the pencils to it, so at this point, doesn’t need to look a specific way.  Just be sure to use one that isn’t too tight and that might break on you, as you are putting the pencils in.  Mine were pretty large and worked well.

Next, start inserting the pencils inside of the rubber bands however you wish. You can have erasers on top, bottom, or even staggered.  Completely up to you.

Now, I filled the inside of the “cake” with the rubber bands.  (Ignore the different colored pencils, I was going to do it that way, and then changed my mind :p )

Once you have the inside full of rubber bands, you can start on any special things to decorate it with.  I decided to use my Cricut to make some cute little signs on sucker sticks and then inserted more pencils to look like candles. 🙂

Now, to cover up the rubber band, I found some bulletin board borders at the dollar store, and glued them around to hide it.

That’s all it took to make the Back to School cake!  Now you can take it to Back to School night and bless a teachers’ evening!!

Hope you like it!  Please take a minute to leave me a comment and let me know what you would do different, or what you would add, etc.  Be sure to tweet, pin, share, etc. – thanks!!

“The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.” –Luke 6:40

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