Happy Bird Day Cake Decor: Birds From Styrofoam Balls!

Here’s the cake I promised to share with you yesterday! Isn’t it just amazing what one can do with some styrofoam balls and a few pipe cleaners one (well, me anyway) has sitting around? I must say, I even surprised myself, especially since when I started making these birds for the party I really had no idea that I’d end up using them on the cake!

As you can see, though decorations are my specialty, when it comes to icing, well, I’ve got a lot to learn! (And I don’t usually buy margarine, so that makes things more difficult!) In retrospect the birds would have looked cuter on just an all white cake, or on a light blue or pink cake, but since this was created and assembled under great pressure on a Friday afternoon while the rest of the family was taking their pre-Shabbat nap, you’ll understand that fact that I didn’t quite achieve perfection this time around! And I took the photo in such a hurry I even got icing on the camera and the sprinkles were flying!

You’ll Need:

• styrofoam balls in various sizes to make babies, (a single ball) a mommy bird and a daddy bird
• pipe cleaners
• acrylic craft paint
• tooth picks
• a hot glue gun
• felt (optional, I used some yellow felt to define the wings of the largest bird)
• a black permanent marker 

How To:

1. Stick a tooth pick into each ball, and while holding onto toothpick, paint each ball. You may need two coats for even coverage.
2. Use a piece of styrofoam as a drying rack, or anything that you can puncture.
3. Once balls are dry, glue heads to bodies with hot glue.
4. Form feathers and wings from pipe cleaners and affix to balls by poking them into the ball with a dab of hot blue on the ends.
5. Draw simple details with a black permanent marker.
6. Poke a toothpick into the bottom of each bird for use as cake decorations.
7. Assemble your cute bird family and don’t forget to take a picture to share with me!
8. And by the way, this would be adorable for a baby shower don’t you think?

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