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To avoid getting messy in your kitchen is as easy as sending your kids away from it. But, with a little different preparation from your usual, cooking with your kids will bring fresh air to your kitchen. There will be lots of memories to be treasured, memories that will bond you with them. Besides, you can unconsciously teach them some importance disciplines, too, such as to understand how time works, to build some basic skills including reading and converting mathematical measurement, to boost creativity and confidence, to bridge communication and connection, and anything else you might better to name them than me.
If preparing meals for dinner has a long way to go, then try to make a start by decorating their favorite muffin first. Or, you can simply involve them to take part in decorating their birthday cake! Using fondant that they may find it similar to their everyday doh, will certainly ignite their creativity and enthusiasm.
Kids love animals! They come in their everyday-cartoon and even be the caustic identities of their favorite heroes and heroines. It is gender neutral too, in case you want to bring such neutral figurines to your kids. After all, considering these animal fondant ideas might be a good thing to begin with.
1. Safari Animals Fondant
When it comes to decorating cake with your kids, it is better to keep everything in its simplest way. Thus, it will be a good idea to try making safari animal cupcake toppers with them.
The first thing you could do is preparing some prints of animals’ faces. Ask your kids to name some jungle animals they saw last time they visited the zoo. Give them a chance to pick their favorites and bring them in your baking platform. Lions, tiger, elephant, monkey, zebra, and giraffe might appear in that list; thus, make sure you can prepare fondant with suited colors.
Start kneading and rolling your fondant and cut them into round circles, depending on your cupcakes’ diameters. Make some teardrop-shaped fondants with an indentation to make them look like ears. Create some eyes using black and white round-shaped fondant. Using paint brush and water, stick all the pieces together. Give smiles to each faces using a sharp cutter. Let your kids burst their imagination by asking them to put details on those faces. Either to give the tiger its stripes, or to put a mane on lion’s head, or create a huge trunk on their shy elephant’s face.
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