Happy Friday: Construction Cupcakes on the Cheap

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Sent from reader, Amanda:

My now 5 year old little boy LOVES construction. This year, using some ‘hip tips’ from your site, we were able to make these super cute cupcakes for under $2 for 2 dozen!

Here’s how:

Buckets- Using our Oriental Trading rewards $ during the free shipping event that you posted about.
Stickers- $10 off any order at Shutterfly that you posted about.
Cupcake mix- Coupons that you posted about combined with a sale at our local grocery!
Sprinkled the tops of the white cupcakes with crushed animal crackers to be “digging in sand” and sprinkled the tops of the chocolate cupcakes with chocolate animal crackers to be “digging in dirt!”
The kids at the party had cute buckets and shovels to take home and play with after they ate their cupcakes! WOW!!! Thanks Collin!

HAPPY FRIDAY! 😀


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Comments 20

  1. Kate

    cute idea!

  2. heather

    Super cute. Be great for end of school party. Digging into summer….

  3. Vi

    Very cute!! Such a cool mom!

  4. Heather

    I love this idea! How fun and creative!

  5. Tilla Ham

    cute and those buckets hold a big cupcake, i want one too:)

  6. Missy

    Love it! Super cute!

  7. anon.

    Wow! That is such a clever idea and good use of good deals!

  8. Janelle

    That’s awesome!

  9. mel

    So cute! Love it!

  10. judy halvorsen

    super cute…can you give me instructions for this fabulous idea?

  11. Laura Vasseur

    What a great birthday party idea!!

  12. Victoria

    Clever Mommy! I’ll bet every Mom there was taking notes!

  13. Mika

    This was a brilliant idea! But it looks like ice-cream.

  14. Janel

    Love this idea!!

  15. Janel @ Happy Life, Happy Wife

    Adorable!

  16. maflies1

    You get a 100 for the best Mom’s idea out of his friends there I bet! He was so proud I know. What a great idea and lasting memories for him and you, as well as the other boys and moms. I’m still smiling for the love of those moments.

  17. Sandy

    You are one awesome mom!!!! Thanks for lovin on your kids:)

  18. amanda

    I never have creative ideas and was so excited when I thought to put all of this together!! I had been looking on Pintrest and only found ideas for cakes. Aiden LOVED them…. They are plain white and chocolate cupcakes made in the Jumbo cupcake pans (from walmart). I topped the cupcakes with crumbled cookies and gummy worms 🙂 Using ice cream would have been great… but we had an outdoor party at a pumpkin patch/corn maze.

  19. Tiffany

    so cute

  20. statenislandmom

    very cute, I have also done the chocolate pudding with gummy worms coming out in a big bucket for a summer bbq

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