Every year I make the kids a special school themed treat on the first day of school. It’s a fun way to celebrate the milestone of another year and another grade. I thought it would be fun to take a look back {but excuse the very amateur cake decorating}.
If any of you remember the old magazine, FamilyFun, some of these ideas came from those pages. I miss that magazine so much! It was always full of such fun ideas and it really inspired me to be creative with my kids.
Back to School Cake Ideas
I’m quite bad at cake decorating and I may regret sharing this post if these end up on one of those memes {wink}, but I think doing something is better than doing nothing, even if it’s imperfect … and kids love a celebration regardless of how good or how bad the cake is! So let’s take a look at these back to school cakes.
This school bus cake was made by stacking two rectangle cakes and then decorated with icing, cinnamon candies and white chocolate chips for lights, donuts for tires, and vanilla wafers for faces.
Do you have back to school treat traditions? I’d love to hear about them!
oh my gosh, i love the books made of fig newtons! genius!
cupcakes this year, yum! they are definitely the new cake.
All I can say is WOW!
I love the school bus. They are all great! I can’t believe it’s that time already for you guys!
Oh my gosh – I love seeing all of your cakes. What a great mom you are!!
I featured your post on my TT&J facebook page 🙂
xoxo
Jen
such a fun tradition!! you are such a sweet mom to do this every year for your children. I’m sure your children are excited to see what you will bake up next.
A super ‘sweet’ tradition! I bet your kids get so excited to head back to school looking forward to the cake you have made them! I’m sure they’ll want to continue your tradition with their own kids. Love it!
–Michelle Paige
Those are amazing! I am inspired… this will be my first year with a kindergartner, so I have to start thinking and quick.
What a fun tradition! I’ve tried to do that a couple of years. In fact, I made the 2001 bus cake and the bus cupcakes a couple of times. I’m really liking the printables stuck in cupcakes idea for this year-so easy. Thanks for the inspiration!
I always loved this idea but in our house it would be torture for the kids. John can’t stand deserts (for the kids anyway) so they would get a piece and the rest would go in the freezer and eventually be thrown out. I’ve given him the nickname “Food Nazi”. lol!
I was away on holidays when your school started. I hope everyone has a great year!
How fun! I love celebrating b-day parties with cakes and cupcakes, but never thought to make a cake for back to school. Love this.
I shared this with my readers today who might be looking for back to school solution ideas.
http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/08/16-back-to-school-solutions/
Hi Randi, this is a very sweet party! Love all the fun treats!
The only thing I noticed is that there was no link to our FREE printables that you used! 🙁
If anyone else wants to find them,they’re here: http://www.blog.birdsparty.com/2011/02/back-to-school-party.html
Sorry for not sourcing the printables … I did provide the link on the original post for those cupcakes. Thanks for providing the link here.
What a great tradition! As homeschoolers we don’t particularly “celebrate” but we do take days off during the year that the other schools don’t so we celebrate then! Visiting from the CSI Project.
Love the one from 2008. That look delicious.
The 2008 chalkboards are my fave-cuz they look cute, simple & quick to make! (also cuz sometimes I am too lazy-LOL)
HOW DID YOU MAKE THE CHALK BOARDS
How did you make the Chalk boards?
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The chalkboards are chocolate covered graham crackers with icing for the writing. You should be able to find them at most stores in the cookie aisle.
You are such a fun mom!!