We love cupcakes in this house. Ok, we love ALL cakes but cupcakes are just a little more fun. And this Kids Cupcake Wars Activity takes cupcake fun to a whole new level!
This is probably one of the easiest kid activites to throw together. A little messy but easy to put together! It’s fun for all ages and the perfect activity to do with friends or family. You can get fancy and make everything from scratch or make things a little easier and go with a box mix and canned icing. This time around, it was all about the decorating so we went the easy route.
With Halloween coming up at the end of the month, we decided to go with a Halloween themed kids cupcake wars activity. My daughter and I had a blast finding different things to adorn our fun Halloween cupcakes.
We started with some Halloween Funfetti cake mix and vanilla icing and then found some candy eyes, green slime icing, witch fingers, skeleton icing decorations, ghost and bat toppers, Halloween sprinkles, and the BEST find of all – Peeps Halloween Marshmallow Toppers
I decided to make the cupcakes ahead of time but you certainly can make the actual baking part of the kids cupcake wars fun.
I used a cupcake pan
And then it was time to let the decorating begin!
It’s a good idea to have toothpicks on hand. They do a great job helping keep your Peep decorations standing up straight!
It was so much fun watching the girls get creative.
This was such a fun activity. The girls ended up decorating all 24 cupcakes! And in the end, we just had too many great cupcakes to pick one winner.
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Awww, their cupcakes came out so good! What a fun idea. My kids would love this.
My kids are begging to play cupcake wars! I love the idea of a halloween themed one!
It was so much fun Amanda! My daughter and I also did one that was mermaid themed. She went digging into all of her tiny toys (which she LOVES – the smaller the better) and we used those to decorate. I’ll have to add those pictures as well. She was the clear winner on that one!
Oh My Word I LOVE this! My two little ones will love decorating their own cupcakes and why haven’t I thought of toothpicks with peeps before?
This looks like a lot of fun! The cupcakes ALL look super good! Impressive!
How fun. My nieces and nephews would love doing this. What a great Halloween activity.
How much fun! Those cupcakes turned out so cute and it looks like they were so much fun to decorate! I need to try this with my kiddos.
Your Halloween cupcakes came out great! The girls did a great job decorating. I love the idea of using a muffin pan to display all the decorating options!
What a great activity for kids of all ages! I would have never thought to do something like this. I love it.
Oh this is just the best idea. I love the ones you guys came up with. I want to try this!
Those are adorable! If you need a volunteer to taste them, I’m here for you 🙂
I think this would be fun for adults to do too! I love the variety of decorations you used—so cute!
That sure is easy and what a great way for them to decorate some cupcakes as well. Love it!
This looks like a lot of fun! The cupcakes look amazing! I can’t wait to use your ideas at my party!
You’re so right! It is super messy but the kids LOVE doing this at our parties. And I love seeing what they come up with. Somehow every single topping ends up on the cupcake! LOL!
These cupcakes are adorable! I love the one with the tombstones with the skeletons and green goo!
This sounds like it would be such a fun activity for both kids and adults! I’d love to do something like this with my family!
Whoa I had no idea that Peeps Marshmallows came in so many shapes and flavors – I want to do cupcakes with them now.
Those are cute! Wow I have never seen so many cupcake toppings and selections!
We are doing a halloween party for our neighborhood kids and this is the perfect activity! Thanks
How cute is this – I wish I had been aware of this fun activity when I ran Adult and kids groups at the conference centers I used to be in charge of! Wow!