Lifestyle Magazine

This low-cost kiddie cake party will give a lot of fun to your kids and their friends—without busting your budget. With a little imagination and some efforts, the kiddie guests will surely have a great time both on making their own cakes and eating them, too.

Tips on Party Preparation:

1. Arrange the furniture in the kitchen and the living room to avoid congestion. Otherwise, your small guests will be bumping to each other.
2. Decorate the venue with colorful homemade balloons, crepe paper streamers and a banner saying ‘Happy Birthday, (name of celebrant)!’
3. Buy several yards of the cheapest cloth you can find. Cut the cloth into shapes of small apron. With use of multi-colored glitter pens, write the name of the guest and some personalized messages like “I became a cake monster at (your kid’s name)’s party!”
4. Stock up on marshmallow bits, choco bits, choco dust, choco flakes, flower candies, cherries, nuts, and other goodies used as cake decorations.
5. A day before the party, bake a lot of mini-cakes with different flavors like chocolate and mocha. Prepare the icing in various colors and put inside pastry bags.

Tips on how to host a kiddie cake party:

1. Invite some of your friends to assist you on supervising the children.
2. Divide the guests into small groups. Help them put the small aprons around their tiny waists.
3. Ask each guest to write down the desired cake flavor and the kinds of cake decorations under his or her name.
4. Distribute the mini-cakes and the preferred goodies to each guest.
5. Supervise the kids while frosting their cakes. Explain each step so that they will remember how to put icing on cake.
6. Put the finished cakes up for a ‘beauty’ contest. Give the winners some kind of gifts like toys and coloring books. Follow the contest with more parlor games.
7. Serve cold milk with the mini-cakes.
8. Kids love to take-home goodies so ask your friends to frost and to decorate the remaining mini-cakes. Wrap each in colored cellophane and tie with a ribbon.