How to Craft a Mermaid Birthday Cake

I've alternated pearl bead strands and white rick-rack around the sides of the cake and
 on top. A star fish is featured in the center at the top. The cake stand is a recycled
"dome" shape from a box. The detailed buttons are playful
mermaids with companion dolphins.

       Both little girls and dolls love mermaid themed birthday parties! Here is one of many cakes we have made for the large AG dolls from our growing confection collection. This one is decorated with buttons representing sea life like: dolphins, sea shells and star fish and mythical mermaids.

Star fish on top of our
doll's mermaid cake.

Supply List:

• card set of mermaid and sea themed buttons
• beaded faux pearls (come attached to string)
• cardboard tube and extra cardboard
• masking tape
• white school glue
• white rick-rack
• 2 or 3 cotton balls
• hot glue and hat glue gun
• recycled cardboard platform or plate shape
• aqua blue and white acrylic paints
  

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. For this cake, I used a large cardboard tube measuring 2 and 1/2 inches across. Cut this tube 2 and 1/2 inches tall as well.
2. Trace around one end on top of a scrap piece of cardboard twice to make circular cut outs. 
3. Close both ends of the tube by taping these to the top and bottom of the tube.
4. Cover every side of the cardboard cylinder with masking tape.
5. The stand is painted using a ombré painting technique with a dry brush, carefully blending the two acrylic paint colors together. (aqua and white)
6. I permanently attached the stand to the cake using white school glue.
   
7. Now unwind the cotton balls. 
8. Glue the cotton batting with layers of white school glue to the surfaces of the cake.
9. Using the tip of your scissors, make small grooves into places you wish to attach the fancy buttons. Hot glue these buttons to the tube, nestling the back of the buttons into the cotton batting surface.
10. Now glue on the strings of beads and rick-rack in a formal pattern on top of the faux cotton "icing."
11. Serve up a cake and presents to all of your mermaid loving friends at your doll's next birthday party!

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