Mickey mouse Cake

Here is a lovely Mickey mouse cake for a four year old
                               
                                                                                        

                                                                                                      Jenny Quayle

Gordon 4yrs

Bernadine - Cape Town

Pincess Party

Caley’s princess party when she turned 4.

Tanya Frederickson - Cape Town

Ballet

Sharon Wall - Cape Town
Princess Grace Cakes

Pirate Cake

Nasrene Sheik

Incredibles Party

For my Sons 4^th birthday he wanted an Incredibles birthday party, and this year we decided to have his party at his play-school. I made his invitation using my trusty computer. The wording was… Dear Incredible (child’s name), You are invited to an Incredible party at my Incredible school!!

The cake was an ordinary sponge cake, and the Incredibles family picture was printed onto rice-paper.

The boxes were filled with a few goodies to eat and an apple juice each. To make the Party boxes, we had pasted pictures of Elastagirl on them and cut off her feet. We then punched holes where her feet should be on the box (see pic) and threaded stockings through the holes to make longer stretchy legs. The "legs" were then stretched around the box and tied. The feet we had cut off were then pasted on the end of the stockings. It Looked very cute and the kids had fun trying to untangle her legs!

 

After most of the contents of the party boxes were devoured, the children met the Villan’s big bad robot in the form of a Piñata!!

Making a piñata is time-consuming but lots of fun especially if the kids help! To make your own piñata: Inflate a balloon and attach a rope to it. Paper Mache the balloon, and remember to make it nice and strong at the top where the rope and balloon are attached together. You will add the sweets later, so leave a small area open at the side or near the bottom for first. When totally dry, pop the balloon and then add the sweets, use individually wrapped sweets to fill the piñata especially if you are still going to paint it. Paper Mache the open section closed and leave to dry. Once completely dry – paint and decorate it.

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN

Batman!

Chantal - Perth - Australia

Ballet Party - 4 years

At some point in their lives, every little girl dreams of becoming a ballerina. And so my daughter's fourth birthday party theme was ballet.

We did our first activity. Edible ballerinas: I prepared a separate pack for each child containing the following: 1x Jolly Jammer Biscuit (a face), 1x chocolate whisper (a hair bun), 1x rectangular strawberry wafer biscuit (leotard body), 2x mini white chocolate sticks (arm), 2x strawberry finger biscuits iced with pink icing on one side to look like ballet shoes (the legs), 1x strawberry whirl jelly (a rose), 2x twisty corn chips (ringlets), a cardboard backing, and a knife. A bowl of chocolate icing was placed on each table. The children then went about building a ballerina on the backing card, pasting the different body parts into position with the icing.

While everyone was finishing off their ballerinas, we handed out the party packs.Each party pack was made using the bottom half of a plastic 2 litre Coke bottle. I placed a pink doily around the top part and fastened it with a pink satin ribbon. I punched a hole on either side and fastened the ends of a silver pipe cleaner through each hole to form a handle. I fastened a pink rose to the silver pipe-cleaner. I tried to find only pink sweets to fill the party packs with. I made ballet slipper butter biscuits and fastened two of these with pink satin ribbons to the side of each party pack.

The birthday cake was square with two ballet slippers (made using small loaf pans) on top. I made a cupcake for each child with a plastic ballerina figurine placed on top. I was lucky enough to find candles that looked like pink ballet shoes.

Jessica - DURBANVILLE

Mary Poppins - 4 years

By the time my daughter turned four, Mary Poppins had become the number one watched movie in our home, so it was decided that that would be the theme of her fourth birthday party.

I made a carousel cake which was fairly simple: one large and one smaller round cake. I used a wide cardboard cylinder decorated with foil and ribbons as the central part of the carousel pressed through the center of the larger cake, and secured the smaller cake above it, balanced on a firm card. I found four carousel pony candles and used these at regular intervals in the large base cake. The cakes were decorated with icing matching the colours I had chosen for the party as well as rainbow sprinkles and plastic icing flowers and butterflies. The best thing about this cake was that I presented it on a well covered rotating table server - "a lazy susan". The server was decorated with green coconut grass and a brown sugar pathway leading to the carousel. Because of the server, the carousel was able to turn while we sang happy birthday. I also made umbrella-shaped biscuits, raspberry ice and toffee apples as treats.

As a take home treat, each child was given a celophane wrapped spoonful of sugar. I found a spoon shaped chocolate mould and made each child a chocolate spoon. I cut marshmallows in half, dipped them in milk and rolled them in coloured sugar crystals. once these had dried I iced them onto the chocolate spoons and had a truly splendid result.

Jessica - DURBANVILLE

Spiderman - 4 years

For my Son’s 4th birthday party, the theme of choice was obvious: he was a Spiderman fan, through and through.

Tanya - DURBANVILLE

Pirate Party - 4 years

My son recently celebrated his 4th birthday party and quite excitedly decided on a Pirate theme for his party, which was held at his school.

Once he had blown out the “cannon” candles on his pirate ship cake, It was time to search for treasure.

The treasure, finally found, was filled with the party packs made of brown paper bags with skull decorations, which my children eagerly pitched in to help make and were filled with treats such as candy necklaces, chocolate coins and a variety of age appropriate treats.

Tanya - DURBANVILLE

Hot Wheels Racing Party - 4 years

Boys & Cars!

My son used to carry as many cars as possible in his two little hands. There was even a time that the cars would go to bed with him, and he didn’t seem to mind rolling over them in the middle of the night! When he reached the age of 4, the car madness was at its peak and so a Racing Party was the obvious choice! In keeping with the theme, we used some of my son’s bigger cars as “centre-pieces” for the snacks.

We have tried over the years to have the parties close to lunch time, so that we can have “proper” food to eat. We decided to braai various kinds of sausage to suite almost all diets. The “boerewors rolls” were a hit and we have done this almost every year since then. The cake was a yellow racing car (my son’s favourite colour), and as much as I’d like to take credit for the cake I can’t, as I’ve always been too scared to make my children's cakes – thank goodness for cake businesses!

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN