“sprinkles!”

In the near future, I will be running the craft portion of a children’s program at our local library.  The theme of the program will be cupcakes!  After reading a couple cupcake themed books, the children will have the opportunity to decorate a pretend cupcake (made by me) with things like glitter, paint, pompoms and some other fun things.  I have been thinking for a long time on how I can creatively distribute the “sprinkles”  to all the children at the different tables.  Along with glitter, I also found some great little styrofoam balls online, they are perfect pretend sprinkles.  I was considering having multiple bowls filled with glitter and the kiddos would take pinches of them to sprinkle on their cupcakes but I knew that this would lead to quite a mess with a lot of wasted materials.  As I was wandering around the Dollar Tree, I found theses simple salt and pepper shakers, 2 for $1!  I brought them home, drilled the holes in the top bigger and attached these labels (also found at Dollar Tree.)  I think they came out so cute and the glitter comes out just a little at a time.  On a side note, I rubbed the inside of the shaker with an unscented dryer sheet to eliminate static, it was helpful.  Stay tuned for more about the cupcake project!