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Usage Guidelines

I tend to get lots of questions about how Woo! Jr. Network printables can be used – and I’m sure to get tons more after posting these! So here’s a little FAQ as to what you can do with this vintage artwork:

You may use these printables in crafts and artwork that you sell.

You may use these printables for educational and personal projects.

You may not repost these printables on your own website without permission. I spend hours scanning and retouching these images and according to public domain copyright, can retain publishing rights to this work.

You may repost a sample image -as long as you link back to this post- if you want to spread the word about these vintage freebies!

Please email me if you are unsure these usage guidelines cover the project you have in mind.

For how pretty this cake looks, it is surprisingly easy. You could also change up the frosting/colored sugar colors to make this flower cake look like a sunflower. Use chocolate sprinkles for the center!

Easy Flower Cake

What You Need to Make This Easy Flower Cake

Flower Cake Pans

A standard round cake pan

Heart mold pan (this one is silicone)

Cake mix or a killer cake recipe

Store bought frosting or a to die for frosting recipe (I kid you not – this frosting is TO. DIE. FOR.)

Colored sugar (or make your own with sugar and food coloring (instructions below), or colored frosting)

Zippered plastic bags to make colored sugar, or to use instead of a pastry bag.

Optional - shallow 3″ round cake mold for leaves (you can also just halve a heart cupcake for the same effect)

Optional - pastry bag

How to Make this Flower Cake

Simply mix up your cake batter, and cook it in the following molds:

1 round cake form.

12 heart cupcakes, filled low so that they don’t lose their shape and pop over the top of the pan.

2 shallow round cakes, or two more heart cupcakes, cut in half to make 4 leaves.

You should have enough with one cake mix. But I used both chocolate and vanilla cake for mine, because a large family is hard to please with one flavor!

Once complete, your cooked cake pieces should look like this:

Unfrosted Flower Cake

I then frosted only the tops of the cake pieces. For the yellow center, you could use yellow frosting, or I frosted mine with regular white frosting, then dusted it heavily with colored yellow sugar. Do this before you put the leaves and petals on the plate.

How to Make Colored Sugar

This is so easy you probably don’t need directions. Put about a cup of sugar into a zippered plastic bag, and add a few drops of food coloring. Give it to the kids to play with as they mix the coloring with the sugar. Add different colors mixed together to get various shades of yellow and green, or whatever color you want to make! Add more food coloring as necessary to get your desired color saturation.

WARNING: Even if you put a whole bottle of red food coloring into the bag, it will not be as red as the colored sugar you can buy in the  store.

Yes, I found that one out the hard way.

Flower Cake Assembly

To make the flower cake leaves, frost the tops of your half rounds, or half hearts. Then dip the tops into colored sugar. Again, you could just use green frosting for this part as well. I just had the colored sugar leftover from Christmas and really needed a reason to use it up!

Put the heart petal shapes around the cake before you frost them.

To pipe the frosting onto the flower petals, you could use a pastry bag with a fluted tip. I couldn’t find mine and was in a HUGE rush to finish. So I just used a zippered plastic bag with the corner cut off.

WARNING: DO NOT use cheap zipper bags for this. They pop open. The good news is that if this happens, it’s fairly easy to dump the frosting into another bag. And then pray that one doesn’t break, either.

Yes, I found that one out the hard way, too.

More Flower Party Ideas

Flower garden birthday party ideas

Dirt cake recipe

Make adorable flower streamers

Easy flower cupcakes

Kids flower crafts

Classic Summer Party Games

These birthday party games are easy and fast, and popular no matter how many times we play them!

Easy Summer Party Games

Pick a Duck Buy a collection of cheap rubber ducks and fill up a kiddy pool or large tub with water. Write numbers on the bottom of the ducks and let the children pick them out of the water. Their prizes are given to them based on the numbers on the bottoms of their ducks.	Limbo Use a broom or section of PVC pipe and put on some silly music. The children need to go under the stick bent over back wards, tummy first. Gradually lower the stick, and as children fall down trying, they are eliminated. The last one to get through the lowest limbo stick height wins.	Musical Inner Tubes Play this like musical chairs, but the kids need to stand in the middle of a blown up inner tube (you can find these really cheap at your local dollar store). If you’re really lucky, you can find inner tubes to match the theme of your party!	Croquet Split children into teams and play croquet. You have have them take turns at each arch (faster) or give them all a chance to play each arch (slower).

Summer Party Games to Make

Instructions on how to make these great outdoor party games or carnival games.

Make a Bozo Bucket Toss Game	Make a Fishing Booth Game	Make a Bean Bag Toss Game	Make a Ring Toss Party Game

Bean Bag Toss and Ring Toss Summer Party Games

Butterfly Bean Bag Toss Game	Grand Slam Baseball Game Stand-Up	Clown Ball Toss Game	Airblown Castle Ring Toss Game

Also check out our circus crafts and party printables, and also our watermelon recipes and watermelon carving ideas!

Be sure to check out our summer birthday party games, too!

Printable Circus Favor Box

Printable Circus Favor Box

Circus Animal Masks

I have a whole slew of more animal masks on Animal Jr., BTW!

Monkey Animal Mask

Lion Animal Mask

Bear Animal Mask

Printable Circus Letters

Circus Bubble Letter Set

Clown Coloring Pages

These are part of a larger set of clown coloring pages on Fantasy Jr.

Clown with Tambourine Coloring Page

Clown in Mini Car Coloring Page

Cartoon Clown Coloring Page

Masquerade Masks

This is part of a larger set of masquerade masks on Fantasy Jr.

Masquerade and Mardi Gras Masks

Circus Matching Game

Be sure to print TWO of these, or there won’t be much matching going on!

Circus Matching Game