Mother Nature decided to gift your daughter with torrential rains and hurricane-strength winds on her birthday–the day you planned to celebrate her special occasion at the beach. Now what?
Instead of drowning your sorrows in pounds of pasta salad and soggy streamers, encourage your daughter turn off the indoor waterworks, and help you transform your home into Mommy Beach.
The party can go on as planned with these simple projects:
INDOOR SAND CASTLES
Ingredients:
1 cup of cornstarch
2 cups of sand
11/2 cups of cold water
1 old pan (Use one that you can sacrifice for this project as you probably won’t want to cook with it again after making this sand dough.)
Directions:
Mix the ingredients together, stirring for about 8 minutes until the sand thickens.
Remove from heat and allow to cool.
When you’re ready to make your sand castle, put a small bit of the sand dough on a paper plate along with a variety of shells, rocks, beads, grass, and small, plastic marine animals.
Mold the sand dough into a castle, and then embellish it with the decorations.
MOMMY BEACH CAKE
Simply bake a cake in a 9 by 13-inch rectangular pan according to the box’s instructions. (Choose your child’s favorite flavor—yellow, caramel, and white cake work best)
Once cooled, turn the cake upside down onto a covered tray or cake board.
Use blue frosting or make your own by adding a few drops of blue food coloring into a container of vanilla frosting.
Frost entire cake.
Combine crushed Nilla Wafers and brown sugar in a bowl, then press mixture onto half of the cake, creating a “beach” and “shoreline.”
Use extra icing to make waves on the ocean half of cake. You can make wave peaks with white frosting or by swirling more icing on the tops of the ready spread blue frosting.
Decorate the cake with plastic palm trees, tiki torches, mini cocktail umbrellas, hula girls, crabs, dolphins, starfish, small action figure surfers and candy “rocks.” You can even make a mini bonfire by cutting a small hole into the cake on the beach side and inserting a votive candle. Once you insert the candle, surround it with candy rocks and pretzel sticks to make it look like a real bonfire.
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