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School Supply Cake Tutorial

Created On: August 17, 2012  |  Updated: August 23, 2021  |   26 Comments  

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How to make a school supply cake for back to school or teacher appreciation day.

I’m sure there are several ways to make school supply cakes but this is what I had on hand thought worked best. Another suggestion would be to use a pvc pipe or one of those 3 packs of tissue boxes as your base.

How to make a school supply cake

Supplies:

Note: I didn’t use the notebooks

I started by taking a packaging roll and wrapping the folders around in to give it a finished look. The rubber bands held them in place.

I wrapped the pencil boxes around the tube then added the crayons. I believe I used 5 pencil boxes and 7 crayon boxes. This will depend on the size of your center item, you may need more or less supplies. In the pic below you’ll see colored pencils but I replaced them with the dixon box of pencils (I’ll tell you why in a sec). Before you arrange your items pull the folders up so they cover the top of the tube if yours is longer like mine was. I learned the hard way and did it AFTER I had everything in place, definitely not recommended. ;)

Next were the school glue bottles. By folding the pencil boxes down a little it provided the perfect base for the glue bottles to sit on. I removed the colored pencil boxes because they weren’t the same size and made them uneven. As you can see everything is held together with rubber bands. Make sure they are thick enough to hold your supplies steady. I finished it off by adding glue sticks on the top, for extra security I applied foam mounting tape under the glue sticks which has worked great!

Then add ribbon and you’re done!

But of course I always have to add something so to make it even cuter I used the Lifestyle Crafts pennants die and Canvas Corp chalkboard paper to make a banner. I hot glued it onto twine and tied it on the rulers. Super cute, right? It’s my favorite part of this whole cake! :)

So are you ready for the new school year? My son starts on Monday and I’m so not ready for him to go back! We’re celebrating my daughter’s birthday tomorrow so it’s going to be a fun last weekend of Summer!

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Jen
10 years ago

Cute teacher gift idea. Thanks for linking up to our Pretty Things party. Hope to see you back next week!

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Tauni
10 years ago

Crystal, Thanks for sharing your take on the back to school supply cake. It’s so colorful, I love it! I’ve pinned it to my back to school board and I am seriously considering a run to pick up more supplies when they go on sale just so that I can make one of these!

Thanks for linking up to Show & Tell on SNAP!

xoxo, Tauni

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Renee - the Creative Orchard
10 years ago

Adorable Idea! I would love for you link this up at my first LINK PARTY!

https://www.thecreativeorchard.blogspot.com/2012/08/tutorial-link-party.html

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Maria Luisa
10 years ago

A really special, beautiful idea!:- )

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Patrice
9 years ago

LOVE this cake! I am making one as a good-bye gift for a student teacher I have in my classroom right now. TFS!

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